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

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