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

Blasphemy allegations leading to vicious attack by extremist mobs, leading to public lynching and death has taken Pakistan by storm. In a recent incident this Wednesday, a 34-year-old Hindu man Prakash Kumar, a resident of a small town called Hub in Pakistan's Balochistan province, was arrested b

About 200 prisoners in Indonesia broke out of an overcrowded jail on Sumatra island on Friday, tearing down a gate near a mosque in the prison complex after being allowed out of their cells to pray, officials said. Inmates had complained about their treatment in the jail in Pekanbaru, Riau provin

An explosion at a mine in northern Iran today left at least 26 workers trapped in a mile-long tunnel filled with gas that hampered rescue efforts, media reports said. The coal mine in Golestan province collapsed when methane gas exploded underground as workers tried to jump-start a locomotive eng

New York [U.S.A.]: Palestinian militant outfit Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal has said that United States President Donald Trump has an ‘historic opportunity’ to pressurise Israel to find an “equitable solution” for the Palestinian people. “The Trump administration has a greater threshold for boldnes

Kabul [Afghanistan]: The ISIS-Khurasan, an offshoot of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror group, has claimed responsibility for the deadly suicide attack that targetted a convoy of the Resolute Support Mission forces led by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in Kabul. The

The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas unveiled Monday a new policy document easing its stance on Israel after having long called for its destruction, as it seeks to improve its international standing. The document notably accepts the idea of a Palestinian state in territories occupied by Israel