Rather than bask in a post-Olympics glow, residents of Rio de Janeiro are having to relearn the run and crouch position as gun fights become an increasing feature again of life in Brazil’s second city. The massive security presence that kept athletes and tourists safe during the Games in August has

Islamic State’s alleged ‘No 1’ man in Germany described as ‘the worst’ by returnee jihadist  German police have arrested five men in anti-terror raids, including an influential preacher dubbed “Islamic State’s number one man in Germany”. The five men are all suspected of supporting Islamic Sta

Dhaka: The idol of Hindu Goddess Lakshmi, stolen from a vandalised temple, was found in a mosque in Bangladesh's Nasirnagar, six days after communal violence rocked Brahmanbaria district, even as a Muslim youth was caught torching a Kali temple in another area on Saturday, media reports said. Polic

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES:  The US military confirmed Friday it had killed Al-Qaeda's emir for northeastern Afghanistan during an air strike last month, in a major blow to the group as it seeks to re-establish safe havens in the country.  Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook described the assault that kill

Dubai: Maryam Rajavi, President of People’s Mujahedin of Iran, strongly condemned the targeting of Saudi’s holy city, Makkah with missile fired from Yemen on 29th October. She said that the strikes was carried out under the supervision of Quds Force and was said to have been ordered by Iranian Su

Paris: One journalist is killed every four-and-a-half days, according to a shocking report released by Unesco on Wednesday. During the last decade, 827 journalists have been killed while on the job, the Unesco director-general's report said. The worst hit areas were Arab states including Syria, Ir

PESHAWAR, Pakistan A Pakistani court on Wednesday denied bail to Sharbat Gula, who was arrested for illegally living in Pakistan and is best known as the green-eyed Afghan girl who posed for a National Geographic magazine photograph 30 years ago.Gula, now in her 40s, became a symbol of her country's

HERAT, Afghanistan Gunmen rounded up and shot dozens of civilians in a remote part of Afghanistan on Tuesday, UN officials said, in an attack that prompted angry protests from residents about government failure to protect them. The provincial governor's spokesman blamed fighters from Islamic State f

Addressing the party's National Council, she said, "Awami League must come back to power to take the nation forward towards its goal of becoming a poverty-free nation." Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was on Sunday re-elected unopposed as the ruling Awami League’s president, asked

TOKYO: Two apparent explosions hit the Japanese city of Utsunomiya back-to-back on Sunday, killing one person and injuring three others in what police are viewing as a possible suicide. Japanese media reports suggest that the victim, believed to be a 72-year-old former military officer, may have

St Louis: US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has said the US was not at “war with Islam”. The Democratic nominee also accused her rival Donald Trump of making statements that were a “gift to the ISIS”.  In the second presidential debate, Clinton used the phrase “violent jihadist terrorists”

Hurricane Matthew: The storm was likely to remain a Category 4 on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity as it approached the United States. Hurricane Matthew pelted Florida with heavy rains as the deadly storm steamed ever closer to the coast with potentially catastrophic winds

Stockholm, 4 Oct. 2016: British-born scientists David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz were awarded this year's Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for revealing the secrets of exotic matter such as superconductors, materials that conduct electricity with no loss to resistance. The Roy

Montreal ,23 September 2016(IANS ): A Muslim woman in Canada, who was denied a court appearance because of her hijab, sought legal clarification on the rights of Quebecers, who want access to justice while wearing religious attire. Rania El-Alloul's lawyer appeared in Quebec Superior Court on Thu

But he won’t reveal it as he doesn’t want the ‘enemy’ to know it; Hillary vows to attack IS from air, ground and online. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump escaped yet again without offering any details of his foreign policy and national security ideas, with his blustering, filibust

Vientiane: US President Barack Obama on Thursday called Donald Trump “wacky” and “uninformed” after the Republican candidate said Russia’s President Putin was a better leader. Speaking in Laos, according to BBC, Obama said that every time Trump spoke it became clearer that the Republican contende

Washington: Abid R. Qureshi, has been nominated today by President Obama for serving as a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Mr. Qureshi is the first American Muslim to be nominated to serve on the federal judiciary. Farhana Khera, former counsel to the U

The east coast of New Zealand was hit by a powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake on Thursday, generating a small tsunami, but officials said there was no significant damage or injuries. A swarm of aftershocks, several of nearly 6.0 magnitude, rocked the region for many hours after the initial jolt as