DAMASCUS: A senior Iranian official branded Saudi Arabia's King Salman a traitor to Islam on Thursday and equated the Gulf state's military assault on Iranian-allied fighters in Yemen with Israeli actions against Palestinians. Alaeddin Boroujerdi, head of Iran's national security and foreign poli

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Foreign SecretaryAizaz Ahmad Chaudhry today alleged that Indian external intelligence agency RAW was involved in different acts of terrorism in the country. In a chat with media here, he said that Pakistan had taken up the issue of "RAW's activities" with Indian authorities

KARACHI: At least 43 people were killed and 13 others wounded on Wednesday when armed men opened fire inside a bus carrying members of the Ismaili community near Safoora Chowk in Karachi. Sindh Police Inspector General Ghulam Haider Jamali said that 60 people were on board the bus when six gunmen

TOKYO: A magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit off the main Japanese island of Honshu, the US Geological Survey said on Tuesday. USGS originally reported the earthquake as 6.9 magnitude. The quake was centered 74 miles (119 km) southeast of Morioka, Japan, at a depth of 24 miles (39 km), it said. Th

JAKARTA: Hundreds of migrants abandoned at sea by smugglers in Southeast Asia have reached land and relative safety in the past two days. But an estimated 6,000 Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar remain trapped in crowded, wooden boats, migrant officials and activists said. With food and

ORT ELIZABETH: South Africa’s main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, on Sunday elected its first black leader, a major step in its bid to present itself as an alternative to the ruling African National Congress (ANC). The DA, which has been widely seen as a party of middle-class whites, wo

LONDON: Britain awoke to a new political landscape on Saturday after a shock election victory for Prime Minister David Cameron that decapitated the opposition and bolstered secessionists in Scotland. Defying the opinion polls ahead of Thursday’s vote, Cameron’s Conservatives won 331 of the 650 seat

KATHMANDU: Days after a severe earthquake devastated Nepal, another tremor measuring a moderate 5.0 on the Richter scale rocked the Himalayan nation on Friday, the National Seismological Centre said. According to the centre, the quake's epicentre was recorded near the border area of Dolakha and S

LONDON: Britons voted on Thursday in a knife-edge general election that could put their country’s membership of the European Union in question and raise the likelihood of independence for Scotland. Polls opened at 7 a.m. (0600GMT) with voters deciding between Prime Minister David Cameron’s center-r

KATHMANDU: Nepal has banned flying of drones in its skies following the devastating earthquake, suspecting leakage of sensitive information through the use of the unmanned aerial vehicle, authorities said today. After the April 25 quake, some foreign media and other aid agencies used drones to tr

Kenya: The United States said Monday it will give $45 million to help Kenya deal with an increasingly complex refugee crisis in a region long defined by Somalia’s endemic violence, but where war in nearby Yemen is now creating conditions so dire that some people are even fleeing to Somalia. In Nair

YOLA, Nigeria: Hundreds of girls and women, many bewildered and traumatized, are being registered, fed and given medical care in their first day out of Nigeria’s war zone. The group of 275 women and children are among the nearly 700 freed in the past week by the Nigerian military from Boko Haram ex

BAGHDAD: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a surprise visit today to Iraq, pledging to continue Canada's support for the battle against the Islamic State group as bombings across the country killed at least 30 people. The Canadian government has announced USD 139 million in additional a

KATMANDU: One thousand EU citizens are still unaccounted for in Himalayan Nepal, diplomats said Friday, almost a week after a massive earthquake that has claimed more than 6,300 lives and left survivors desperate for aid. The Europeans had mostly been climbing in the avalanche-hit Everest region an

Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) On Day Six of Nepal's tragedy, life triumphed as rescuers pulled an 15-year-old from the rubble of a multistory residential building in one of Kathmandu's hard-hit neighborhoods. A large crowd erupted in cheers as Pemba Tamang was carried out on a stretcher. He was we

BEIJING: The United States and other countries will be welcome to use civilian facilities China is building in the South China Sea for search and rescue and weather forecasting "when conditions are right", China's navy chief has told a senior US officer. China claims 90 percent of the South China

KANO: Nigerian troops have rescued about 160 more hostages from Boko Haram's Sambisa Forest stronghold in northeast Nigeria, the country's army told AFP on Thursday. "We are still trying to compute the actual number of those rescued. But tentatively there are about 60 women of various ages and ar

KATMANDU The death toll in the recent Nepal earthquake reached 5,000, sources said on Tuesday. Hungry and desperate villagers rushed toward relief helicopters in remote areas of Nepal Tuesday, begging to be airlifted to safety. “The ground keeps shaking, even this morning it did. Every time it