HELSINKI (AP) — A gunman in Finland killed a local town councilor and two journalists in an apparent random shooting in a small town's nightlife district, police said Sunday. A local man was detained on suspicion of murder. The chairwoman of the Imatra town council and two female reporters were g

Beijing: At least 59 people have been killed in two separate Chinese coal mine blasts, according to death tolls reported by state media. An explosion on Saturday at a colliery in the northern Inner Mongolia region killed 32, Xinhua news agency said. A total of 181 people were working undergrou

Washington: Several Indian Americans are being considered for positions in the Trump administration as they all qualify on merit and ethnicity is not an issue, the highest ranking Indian-origin politician in the Republican party has said. “I know of several Indian Americans in consideration for p

Jerusalem: 23 people were arrested on suspicion of negligence or deliberately starting fires that swept across central and northern Israel. So far, the Israeli police released only the basic details about 10 of the detainees and is quiet with details identities of the remaining 13. The Israe

Washington: Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio will sue the federal government if President-elect Donald Trump goes forward with his plan to establish a “Muslim registry.” In a speech delivered on Monday at The Cooper Union before hundreds of supporters, De Blasio slammed Trump’s controversial

Beijing: China has asked Muslim citizens to resolutely oppose religious extremism and stick to socialism with Chinese characteristics as it tightened security in the restive Muslim-majority Xinjiang province with stern measures. Chinese Muslims should resolutely oppose religious extremism, Wang Z

New York [USA]: As fighters advance on the besieged city of Mosul and the ISIS seemed to suffer huge losses, the terror outfit has now started targeting children and civilians. The terror group’s tactic of desperation as nearly 100,000 fighters advance toward Mosul is to simply lob mortars indisc

Los Angeles: A hijab-clad woman was allegedly accosted at a US store by another customer who called her a “terrorist” and told her to “get out” of the country, the latest in a series of hate incidents in which headscarf-wearing women have been targeted following Donald Trump’s win. The incident happ

A 6.7-magnitude earthquake jolted Akto County in Xinjiang province at 10.24 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Friday, local authorities said adding that there were no casualties. According to the China Earthquake Networks Centre, the quake struck at a depth of 10 km with its epicentre located at 39.27 degre

Forty-four people were killed and 103 injured when one Iranian passenger train collided with another at a station about 150 miles (250 km) east of the capital Tehran, state media reported. “I was sleeping when the crash happened. I thought it was an air strike … When I opened my eyes, there was bloo

A 5-year-old Muslim kindergarten student was allegedly assaulted by a woman teacher who grabbed him by the neck and began choking him, the latest in a series of hate incidents reported in the US following Donald Trump’s win. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the country’s largest

Jerusalem: A massive fire has been spreading in the northern Israel since Tuesday. Fire has been spread across the central and northern regions of Israel and parts of the West Bank. Dry conditions and high winds have made the situation worse. According to latest figures, there were 30 reports of

Mosul [Iraq]: Iraqi security forces have recaptured six villages in southeast and north of the city of Mosul, while Special Forces continued heavy clashes with the Islamic State (IS) militants in the eastern part of the city. On Monday, the army’s 9th armored Division managed to free the three vi

Manama: Police in the Saudi capital Riyadh have arrested an Indian man who posted a picture of a Hindu deity sitting on the Ka’aba, the cuboid building at the centre of Islam’s most sacred mosque. Police arrested the Indian national in his 40s, who works as an agriculture engineer. “Not only d

London, Nov 20 (PTI) Thousands of people have signed an online petition calling for Queen Elizabeth II to pay nearly 370 million pounds for repairs to Buckingham Palace from her own pocket instead of resorting to taxpayer funds. The "Make Royals Pay for Palace Renovation" was created on 38 Degree

Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today he backed a bill limiting the volume of calls to prayer from mosques, a proposal government watchdogs have called a threat to religious freedom. Netanyahu, who spoke as a ministerial committee was to discuss the draft bill later in t

San Francisco:A veteran history teacher in the US has been suspended for comparing President-elect Donald Trump to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler during a post-election lesson. Frank Navarro, 65, a history and special education teacher at Mountain View High School, Bay Area, California, was asked to

LONDON At least seven people were killed and more than 50 injured when a tram overturned on Wednesday morning in south London, police said and later confirmed the driver had been arrested.Early indications were that the tram was travelling too fast on a sharp bend, investigators said.Emergency servi