ATLANTA: The U.S. state of Georgia executed its only woman on death row on Wednesday, marking the first time in 70 years the state has carried out a death sentence on a woman, a prison official said. Kelly Gissendaner, 47, died by lethal injection at 12:21 a.m. EDT at Georgia Diagnostic and Classif

NEW YORK/JEDDAH: Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir has accused Iran of fomenting regional strife by supporting terrorist groups. Responding to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s address at the 70th session of the UN General Assembly, the Saudi minister said the Iranian president should be the last

BEIJING: A typhoon struck mainland China on Tuesday after lashing Taiwan, where it killed two, injured hundreds and left hundreds of thousands without power or water. Typhoon Dujuan passed through Taiwan for three hours on Monday night, bringing high winds and rain. More than 100 flights in China

US President Barack Obama has said defeating Islamic State in Syria would only be possible if President Bashar al-Assad stepped down, and that the fight against the group will take time. He pledged to use all possible tools - military, intelligence and economic - to defeat IS, but acknowledged th

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has used a speech at the UN to call for an investigation into Thursday's stampede at the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. The incident is the deadliest to hit the Hajj in 25 years, with 769 people dead, more than 130 of them from Iran. Saudi Arabia's Foreign Min

KIEV, Ukraine: Ukraine's prime minister says Russian airlines will be banned from flying into the country, the latest attempt to put pressure on Russia as the conflict in eastern Ukraine grinds on. Ukraine also will ban Russian planes from using Ukrainian airspace for transit flights if the plane

BERLIN: As Middle Eastern migrants flocked to Germany, Google said Friday demand for its Arabic-German translation service had surged five-fold, urging native speakers to help improve the service. The EU’s top economy this year expects to take in between 800,000 and one million asylum-seekers, ma

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday opened one of the biggest mosques in Europe, warning against the lure of militants as the government frets over its citizens fighting for the Daesh group. Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas wer

BERLIN: When the flood of Middle Eastern refugees arriving in Europe finally ebbs and asylum-seekers settle down in their new homes, Germany could unexpectedly find itself housing the continent's largest Muslim minority. The arrival of so many Syrians fleeing their country's brutal civil war is b

The United Nations has been criticised for handing Saudi Arabia a key human rights role - despite the country having "arguably the worst record in the world" on freedoms for women, minorities and dissidents. Critics, including the wife of imprisoned pro-democracy blogger Raif Badawi - sentenced t

OTTAWA: Canada's conservative government on Saturday said that it would accept 10,000 Syrian refugees within one year by simplifying and speeding up the immigration application process. Visa officers will no longer ask the applicants to prove that they are refugees through a United Nations refuge

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Twenty-two suspects have been detained in connection with a deadly attack on a Pakistan air force base claimed by the Taliban, officials said Saturday. Pakistani Taliban militants dressed in official uniforms attacked the air force base near the northwestern city of Peshawar on

President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi has sworn in a new government, one week after the previous Cabinet resigned amid a corruption probe, Egypt's state news agency reported. The new government, headed by Prime Minister Sherif Ismail, a former petroleum minister, took office on Saturday, after state-fri

LAGOS: Nigerian security services said they had recovered $111,000 in cash, wrapped up and swallowed by a member of a suspected smuggling ring. Six suspects, including a bureau de change operator, were arrested and held in the commercial capital Lagos until one of them had excreted 74 tightly-wrapp

JUBA: More than 100 people were killed in South Sudan when an oil truck exploded as a crowd tried to gather fuel from the vehicle after it had veered off the road, a regional official said on Thursday, a day after the incident. In addition to those killed in Wednesday's blast, Charles Kisagna, th

SAN FRANCISCO — With a very personal appeal, Google launched a donation-matching campaign that aims to raise $11 million for humanitarian organizations helping hundreds of thousands of refugees in Europe who have fled war-torn and impoverished countries. Google said on Tuesday it will match the f

GHAZNI: Taliban insurgents stormed a prison in Afghanistan's Ghazni on Monday , killing police and releasing more than 350 inmates, including nearly 150 deemed a threat to national security , and then at tacked troops rushing to help officials said. The latest Taliban prison raid, on the outskirt

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka announced Sunday 16 Indian fishermen would be released to coincide with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s visit to New Delhi, his first overseas trip since winning last month’s general election. The fishermen, from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, arrested for poachin