CAIRO: Egypt and Saudi Arabia are considering whether to hold joint military exercises in the kingdom as airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition pounded Shia rebels in Yemen on Wednesday. The airstrikes targeting Yemeni rebels known as Houthis began on March 26 in an effort to halt their advance acro

The Saudi-led military coalition combating the Houthi advance in Yemen lauded on Tuesday a UN Security Council resolution imposing an arms embargo on the Iran-backed militias. The council voted 14 in favor. Russia abstained, saying some of its proposals for the resolution, drafted by council memb

TOKYO: A Japanese court on Tuesday issued a land mark injunction against the restarting of two atomic reactors, after the country's nuclear watchdog had given the green light to switch them back on. The district court in the central prefecture of Fukui made the temporary order in response to a bi

WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton was on a campaign road trip deep into the US heartland on Monday after launching her bid to become the first woman to win the White House with a pledge to champion "everyday Americans." With an eye to putting behind her the jet-set image of a former first lady, secretary

Bangladesh has hanged a political leader sentenced to death for crimes against humanity during the country's 1971 independence war against Pakistan. Mohammad Qamaruzzaman, an assistant secretary-general of the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami, refused to seek presidential clemency, as he became the sec

ABU DHABI: Iran's Arabic-language state TV network Al Alam said on Sunday its Twitter account had been hacked and a false report was posted that an Iran-allied rebel leader in Yemen had died. Al Alam has covered the crisis in Yemen since Saudi Arabia and Arab allies launched air strikes against t

KABUL: A suicide car bomber targeting foreign troops killed three Afghan civilians on Friday, while a dozen people on their way to a wedding were killed in a separate roadside blast, officials said. Afghanistan’s war with Taleban insurgents is grinding on after international troops ended their comb

LAHORE/NEW DELHI: Mumbai attacks mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi has been released from Paksitan's Adiala jail. Lakhvi was released from Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, a day after Lahore high court (LHC) suspended his detention and ordered his immediate release. India had strongly reacted to the c

Firefighters battle a blaze after an explosion at a plant producing paraxylene - a chemical commonly known as PX - in Zhangzhou, east China's Fujian province.- AFP Beijing: Almost 30,000 people living near a Chinese chemical plant where a huge fire blazed for a total of nearly 50 hours were evacu

In a major shot in the arm for the Modi administration, the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has restored India's top aviation safety ranking. The FAA has restored the directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA) to the top ranking. The DGCA had been downgraded last January following majo

Over 540 people have been killed and 1,700 injured in the fierce fighting inYemen in the past few weeks with relief agencies on Tuesday warning of a dire situation due to dwindling supplies in the strife-torn Arabian Peninsula state. "More than 540 people have been killed and 1,700 injured in the

NEW YORK: Describing nuclear-armed Pakistan as "unquestionably the biggest concern" to stability in South Asia, a leading US daily today said the world powers that worked on the Iran deal should now turn their attention to the "troubled region with growing nuclear risks of its own". "The world's

DHAKA, Bangladesh: Separate tropical storms that have swept through parts of Bangladesh have left at least 36 people dead and scores injured. Media reports on Monday said that the casualties have been recorded since Saturday and that most deaths took place in the northern district of Bogra. Th

LONDON: The Indian community in Scotland has emerged as the country's most educated and qualified ethnic community. For people aged 16 to 74 in employment, a high proportion of Indians have been found to be managers and directors. Nearly half (48%) of people from India were in these high occup

Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has told US President Barack Obama that he hoped a final nuclear deal between world powers and Iran would strengthen regional and world security, official media said. In a phone call with Obama, King Salman “expressed his hope that a final binding deal

A pilot and three passengers died when the helicopter they were travelling in crashed onto the roof of a condominium in Sao Paulo, south eastern Brazil. The son of the city’s governor is said to be among those killed. The building’s inhabitants were much luckier. No one was at home at the time

BAGHDAD: Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered Iraqi forces to oppose vandalism in the city of Tikrit, retaken from the Islamic State group this week, and arrest those responsible, his office said on Friday. Security and military forces were ordered to "deal with cases of vandalism" carried out

NEW YORK: Over the next four decades, Islam is expected to grow faster than any other major religion worldwide, with the Muslim population nearly matching Christians in both number and share of the global population, according to projections released on Thursday. Christians will remain the larges