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

LAHORE: A 20-year-old woman, who was arrested in a terror bust in Lahore, is a medical student and had joined the ISIS terrorist group on Facebook sometimes ago, the Pakistani army said today. Pakistan's security forces yesterday claimed to have foiled a "major" terror attack on minority Christia

ISTANBUL: The 'Yes' camp in a referendum to give Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greater powers claimed victory on Sunday but the knife-edge result left the country bitterly divided with the opposition crying foul. Opponents fear the constitutional changes, which would grant Erdogan more p

Damascus [Syria]: Syrian government forces have freed territories to the south of the Syrian airbase in Deir ez-Zor from Daesh terrorists. “The Syrian army regained control over the Faraj territory to the south from the airfield. Several Daesh militants were killed near the cemetery and in Al Arf

Kabul [Afghanistan]: At least 94 Islamic State fighters were killed when the U.S. military dropped its most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Achin district of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province earlier this week, an Afghan official said Saturday. “The number of Daesh fighters killed in

New Delhi [India]: In the wake of the MOAB strike against the Islamic State in Afghanistan, President Donald Trump was all praises for the American military saying that the U.S. army is ‘becoming stronger than ever before.’ “Our military is building and is rapidly becoming stronger than ever befo

From Twitter threats to Tomahawk missiles, US president Donald Trump’s unorthodox and seemingly impulsive approach to foreign policy has unsettled China, piling new pressure on its hands-off North Korea policy. As tensions rise on the Korean peninsula, Beijing appears alarmed by Trump’s strident

If built, the Big Bend would replace Dubai's Burj Khalifa, which at 2,722ft measures as the longest building in the world.  Manhattan,March 27, 2017 : An architecture firm has proposed to build the 'world's longest building' - a curved 4,000 ft long skyscraper - in New York. US

Ahmedabad: A Canadian national of Indian origin was arrested from Surat city, and three country-made pistols and 16 bullets were seized from him, police said. The arrest was made on March 20, police said. Following the arrest, central agencies as well as the Canadian Embassy have been informed. “Bas

Melbourne/Kottayam: An Indian man from Kerala was allegedly assaulted by a group of teenagers who hurled racial abuses at him at a restaurant in Australia’s Hobart. Li Max Joy, who is pursuing a nursing course and working as a part time taxi driver in Australia, alleged that five people including a

Islamabad [Pakistan]: Pakistan Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Saturday said that fencing on the Pak-Afghan border has commenced. “The border areas of Bajaur and Mohmand agencies will be given first priority as they are high-threat zones,” the Dawn quoted an Inter-Services

Announcing an alliance with former arch-rival and former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom is the only way to ensure democracy in the Maldives, Opposition leader and former President Mohammad Nasheed has said. Speaking to The Hindu from Colombo hours after he announced a political front including Mr

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has agreed to allow former army chief Gen Raheel Sharif to head a Saudi Arabia-led 39-nation Islamic military coalition formed to combat terrorism, according to a media report. This was disclosed by defence minister Khawaja Asif in a programme of private Geo TV. Citing Asif