A man and a woman suspected of carrying out a deadly shooting at a center for the disabled in California were killed in a shootout with police, while a third person was detained, police said. The slain suspects were armed with assault rifles and handguns, San Bernardino police chief Jarrod Burgua

LONDON: Britain will join the US-led bombing campaign against Daesh in Syria after MPs voted Wednesday in favor of air strikes. Prime Minister David Cameron secured the strong mandate he had sought with 397 of MPs voting in favor and 223 against, a majority of 174, after over 10 hours of passionate

MOSCOW: Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday it had proof that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his family were benefiting from the illegal smuggling of oil from Islamic State-held territory in Syria and Iraq. Moscow and Ankara have been locked in a war of words since last week when a

PARIS: French police have carried out more than 2,000 raids without judicial warrants and detained 210 people since a state of emergency was enforced in the wake of the November 13 Paris attacks. French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Tuesday told Europe 1 radio station that police have seized 320

LE BOURGET, France: World leaders opened a historic summit in the French capital on Monday aimed at ending decades of political gridlock and forging an elusive agreement to avert calamitous global warming. The leaders kicked off 12 days of negotiations in search of a pact that would radically restr

In a dramatic twist to the more than 3-month long blockade, Nepali police on Sunday arrested 13 members of India’s Sashatra Seema Bal (SSB) in Jhapa in eastern Tarai region of Nepal but released them after 7 hours. Dammaru Niraula, Assistant Chief District Officer of Jhapa told The Kathmandu Post th

COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan court on Friday sentenced a top police officer, his son and four other policemen to death for the abduction and murder of a businessman in 2013. The court in Colombo found Deputy Inspector General Vaas Gunawardena guilty of killing Mohamed Shiyam in return for 10 million rupee

The IndependentA Russian S-400 air defence missile system makes its way through Red Square during a military parade in Moscow. (AP Photo) The surviving pilot from the Russian jet shot down by Turkey while conducting a mission in northern Syria has insisted his aircraft had received no war

PARIS: France’s leading Muslim body called Tuesday for imams to require a permit to preach in a bid to root out extremists, and for a new religious body to fight back against jihadist propaganda. Anouar Kbibech, president of the French Council for the Muslim Religion (CFCM), said the country’s imam

NEW DELHI: Bangladesh has accused Pakistan of interfering in its internal affairs by criticizing the execution of two opposition leaders for alleged war crimes during the country’s 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. Bangladesh Junior Foreign Affairs Minister Shahriar Alam said a “strongly word

KUALA LUMPUR: US President Barack Obama called Sunday for resolve in the face of heightened jihadist threats, insisting panicked citizens must not succumb to fear and urging world leaders not to abandon a climate summit in Paris. With Brussels in lockdown, cities from Beirut to Bamako reeling from

BEIJING: Chinese police have killed 28 members of a “terrorist group” in the Xinjiang region, authorities announced Friday, in the bloodiest such operation in months and as Beijing denounces Western “double standards” in the wake of the Paris attacks. The killings took place over the course of a 56

Moscow: Russia is ready to work with the Western coalition fighting Daesh if its members respect Syria’s sovereignty, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday “We... are ready for practical cooperation with those countries which are part of the coalition and are ready to develop with them such

WASHINGTON : With the Obama administration contemplating selling F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, the top Republican leadership has expressed concern over it and said the US should not sell nuclear armed fighter jets to Pakistan.an) has to be reviewed carefully. I do not think that the nuclear armed

PARIS: France staged dozens of raids on suspected extremists on Monday and bombed the Daesh group in Syria as the prime minister steeled the nation for more bloodshed after its deadliest ever terror attacks. A traumatized nation stopped for a minute’s silence at midday (1100 GMT) to honor at least

PARIS: The Eiffel Tower stood dark in a symbol of mourning Saturday night as France struggled to absorb the deadliest violence on its soil since World War II: Coordinated gun-and-suicide bombing attacks across Paris that left at least 129 people dead and 352 injured. President Francois Hollande vow

PARIS: French prosecutors said on Saturday that three coordinated teams of gunmen and suicide bombers carried out a wave of attacks across Paris that killed 129 people in what President Francois Hollande called an “act of war” by Islamic State. Hollande declared a state of emergency, ordering polic

PARIS: Gunmen and bombers attacked restaurants, a concert hall and a sports stadium at locations across Paris on Friday, killing at least 120 people in a deadly rampage that a shaken President Francois Hollande called an unprecedented terrorist attack. A Paris city hall official said four gunmen sy