Beirut: Airstrikes struck a center of Syria’s rescuers known as the White Helmets in a rebel-held area in the country’s center, killing eight volunteers, opposition activists said. The Saturday’s airstrike was one of the deadliest against the rescuers who operate in opposition-held areas and who

BEIJING: The first freight train to link China directly to the UK arrived in the eastern Chinese city of Yiwu Saturday after covering over 12,000-kilometres (7,500 miles), making it the second-longest route in the world. The journey is the latest effort in China's drive to strengthen trade links

* Kashif Hassan Khan, a Mumbai resident, was planning to marry his Turkish fiancee Ruqayya before she was jailed for downloading Bylock, a messenger app that was allegedly used in Turkey by plotters of the foiled coup last July. * Salman, a Turkish businessman, is in India for treatment but cannot

Quetta: At least eight Iranian border guards were killed in firing by suspected outlaws near the Sistan- Balochistan border along Pakistans troubled Balochistan province, state-run IRIB news agency reported. The border guards were killed after clashes erupted near the town of Mirjaveh in the Iran

Washington: In the first three months Donald Trump’s presidency, Islam phobic attacks are reported to have increased by 1,035% when compared to a similar period in 2016. Only seventeen cases were registered in the first quarter of the year, while the first one hundred days post Trump saw the rise

New Delhi: The trust deficit between Pakistan’s security establishment, primarily the Army as well as the ISI, and the country’s political leadership can be gauged from the fact that the former kept the process of former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav’s trial completely secret and flagged it

Britain: Numerous Indians think, Britain is a land of jobs and opportunity for them. They try to overstay in London having their visas being expired. A report of HT says that the economic conditions have now changed for these people who stay there illegally. It has become harder to get jobs and b

Aden [Yemen]: As many as 10 soldiers were killed in a blast that struck a military camp in Yemen’s southern Aden city on Sunday, Anadolu news agency reported citing a military source. According to the source, the explosion took place inside a weapons depot in Jabal Hadid area in southern Aden.

WASHINGTON: The United States has accused top Indian IT firms TCS and Infosys of unfairly cornering the lion’s share of H-1B visas by putting extra tickets in the lottery — a system the Trump administration wants to replace with a more merit-based immigration policy. At a White House briefing l

Ramallah: Palestinian leaders on Wednesday denounced Israel’s refusal to negotiate with Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli jails, warning of a “new intifada” if any of them die. Some 1,500 Palestinian prisoners have joined the hunger strike that began Monday, according to Issa Qaraqe, head

Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan will announce its verdict in the Panamagate case on April 20, Thursday, after it added the matter in its cause list on Tuesday. Confirming the news, ARY News tweeted: “PANAMA VERDICT has been finalised. Announcement will be in 60 hours.” Last year, the

JERUSALEM: Around 1,300 Palestinians in Israeli prisons on Monday started an indefinite hunger strike to demand an improvement in their conditions. Akram Atallah, of the Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs Commission of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), told Efe news that it hopes more pri

Melbourne: Australia on Tuesday abolished a visa programme used by over 95,000 temporary foreign workers, majority of them Indians, to tackle the growing unemployment in the country. The programme known as 457 visa allows business to employ foreign workers for a period up to four years in skilled

DUANVALE, Jamaica, April 17,2017 (Arab News): Violet Brown spent much of her life cutting sugarcane in the fields around her home in western Jamaica. She attended church regularly, avoids pork and chicken and celebrated her 117th birthday last month. On Saturday, she is believed to have become the

Peshawar: Pakistan police announced on Monday they had arrested 22 people after the lynching of a university student accused of blasphemy, but observers said there was little hope authorities would secure convictions. A large mob attacked journalism student Mashal Khan last Thursday, stripping, b

Kabul [Afghanistan]: U.S. President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. H.R McMaster is adamant about defeating the Taliban in Afghanistan. He said those members of the Taliban who refuse to join the peace process will be defeated on the battleground. “The Taliban must be defeate

Ankara: Turkey’s referendum process to grant expansive new powers to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was held on an “unlevel playing field”, with campaigning restrictions and late procedural changes, monitors said. Opposition events were obstructed and state resources misused, the Organisation for S

ANKARA: Turkish citizens gave President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers in a historic referendum on Sunday, transforming Turkey’s political system from parliamentary to presidential and restructuring its executive, legislative and judicial branches. “Yes” votes led the referendum in