Paris: Independent-centrist and former investment banker Emmanuel Macron was sworn in on Sunday as the 25th French President and the youngest in the nation’s history. Laurent Fabius, President of the Constitutional Council, presided the ceremony at the Elysee Palace here, the BBC reported. “

After months of seige-style heavy hand-to-hand fighting the Syrian Army finally drove out the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) from the Jarrah airbase in eastern Aleppo early on Saturday. The airbase was lost to advancing IS in January 2014. The push for Jirah or al-Jarrah airbase begun early on May 9, 20

Marmaris: A bus of tourists in Turkey fell from a cliff on Saturday and killed at least 20 people, while eleven were injured. The mishap took place near the southwestern sea resort holiday town of Marmaris. According to the local media, no foreign passengers were on board. The bus had travelled

Islamabad, May 12 (PTI) A Pakistani team will visit Nepal to probe the disappearance of a retired Pakistan Army officer from Lumbini near Nepal?s border with India. "A team comprising government officials from the Ministry of Interior will proceed for Nepal to examine the firsthand facts," the Na

New Delhi: Islamabad will overrule the International Court of Justice's order to suspend the execution of Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav who has been sentenced to death by a military court on charges of espionage, a Pakistani media report said. The Attorney General of Pakistan was briefed on t

Five militants and a firefighter were killed in suicide blasts on Thursday during a security raid on a suspected militant hideout in Bangladesh's Rajshahi district, a police official said. According to local media reports, among the 5 killed militants 2 were women. The deceased fireman was identi

For the next month's parliamentary elections, French President-elect Emmanuel Macron on Thursday selected a list of 428 candidates including some from civil society and exactly half of all the candidates are women. Only 24 of those chosen are outgoing MPs from the current parliament, BBC reported

WASHINGTON: The Donald Trump administration on Thursday blamed Pakistan for deteriorating India-Pak relations and warned that the ties might worsen further if there is another "high-profile" terrorist attack from across the border this year. "Islamabad's failure to curb support to anti-India militan

New Delhi [India]: Suspicious of the ‘settlement’ reached between the federal government and the army over the Dawn Leaks issue, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Wednesday said the inquiry commission report must be made public. He said in a series of tweets, ” Dawn Leaks issue was

Turkey on Wednesday slammed as “unacceptable” a US announcement that Washington would supply arms and military equipment to Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State jihadists in Syria. “The supply of arms to the YPG is unacceptable,” Deputy Prime Minister Nurettin Canikli told A Haber television

Washington, United States: US President Donald Trump appealed to Moscow to “rein in” the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and its key ally Iran, during White House talks Wednesday with Russia’s top diplomat Sergei Lavrov. “President Trump emphasized the need to work together to end th

Sanaa: Thirty-four people have died of cholera-related causes and more than 2,000 have been taken ill in less than two weeks in Yemen, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. “There have been 34 cholera-associated deaths and 2,022 cases of acute watery diarrhoea in nine governorates, inc

Islamabad: Pakistan’s opposition leader Imran Khan’s party has said it would sue Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for allegedly taking money from Osama bin Laden to promote jihad in Kashmir. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Khan has been demanding resignation from Sharif for alleged corruption.

NEW DELHI: As the standoff with Pakistan continues over the death sentence to Kulbhushan Jadhav and beheading of Indian soldiers, the government has approved the appointment of top Pakistan diplomat Sohail Mahmood as Pakistan's next high commissioner to India. Expressing hope that Mahmood will co

Berlin: German police on Sunday evacuated some 50,000 people from the northern city of Hanover in one of the largest post-war operations to defuse World War II-era bombs. Residents in a densely populated part of the city were ordered to leave their homes for the operation, planned since mid-April,

Baghdad [Iraq]: At least nine security officials were killed and three others injured on Saturday in car bomb attacks claimed by ISIS or Daesh in Iraq’s Mosul. Iraqi security official Safa al-Behadli said Daesh detonated four explosive laden vehicles at a location where the police forces were s

KANDAHAR: Taliban insurgents overran a district police headquarters in northeastern Afghanistan after two days of intense fighting that left scores of casualties on both sides, Kunduz provincial officials said Saturday. Mafuz Akbari, spokesman for the regional police commander, said the Taliban w

Multiple security issues and political uncertainties mark the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a top Chinese scholar has said, adding opinion is divided on the viability of the project both in the short and long term. The CPEC, whose cost has been projected at more than $46 billion, cuts