WASHINGTON: The latest in an unending parade of winter storms moved over the US East Coast on Saturday, dropping a wintry mix as far south as northern Georgia and potentially causing more headaches for the snow-weary northeastern New England states. The National Weather Service said the storm was e

ANKARA, Turkey: Turkey launched an overnight military operation into neighboring Syria to evacuate troops guarding an Ottoman tomb and to move the crypt to a new location, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Sunday. Davutoglu said nearly 600 troops and 100 tanks and armored personnel carriers

NEW DELHI: After testing the feature with select users, it appears mobile messaging service WhatsApp is now rolling out the much awaited internet calling functionality to a wider set of people. Earlier on Friday, a number of users of WhatsApp's Android app were able to get the voice calling featu

ROCKHAMPTON, Australia: Australia braced on Saturday for heavy rains and floods after weather authorities downgraded two cyclones that lashed its north and northeast, damaging homes and snapping power links, but there were no reports of casualties. Troops were on standby to help with clean-up eff

Qatar has recalled its ambassador from Egypt following a row about air strikes on Islamic State targets in Libya. Foreign ministry officials said it was prompted by comments made by Egypt's delegate to the Arab League, who accused Qatar of supporting terrorism. Qatar had expressed reservations o

Morocco has suspended all flights between Moroccan cities and Libya and closed its airspace to Libyan airplanes because of security concerns, the Moroccan government said on Morocco's Royal Air Maroc had already suspended its flights to Libya in July when Libyan factions started to fight over the

LASHIO: Myanmar declared a state of emergency on Tuesday in a conflict-torn border region where ferocious fighting between the army and ethnic rebels has forced thousands of civilians to flee. Fugitives from the growing violence in northeast of the country described how they fled airstrikes and gun

HOUSTON: A federal judge temporarily blocked President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration on Monday, giving a coalition of 26 states time to pursue a lawsuit that aims to permanently stop the orders. US district judge Andrew Hanen's decision puts on hold Obama's orders that could spar

(Reuters) - Egyptian jets bombed Islamic State targets in Libya on Monday, a day after the group there released a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians, drawing Cairo directly into the conflict across its border. Egypt said the pre-dawn strike hit militant camps, training sites an

ROME: The Italian coastguard launched a major rescue operation today for more than 1,000 migrants in difficulty between the Italian island of Lampedusa and the Libyan coast. Around 150 migrants aboard two vessels from Libya have already been helped to safety, emergency officials told AGI news age

RANCHO MIRAGE, California: President Barack Obama has spoken with the leaders of Ukraine and Germany as fighting continued between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine hours before a scheduled ceasefire. The White House says Obama and Ukrainian President Petro Porosh

Saudi Arabia, Germany and Italy have suspended operations and evacuated diplomatic staff at their embassies in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Friday. “As result of deterioration in security and political conditions in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the kingdom has suspended all embassy operations in Sana

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Militants stormed a Shiite mosque in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 19 people in a wave of shooting and explosions before the siege ended, officials said. The attack in the city of Peshawar also wounded more than 40 people, according to Provincial Information Minister

India’s permanent membership in the reformed UN Security Council (UNSC) is unacceptable to Pakistan as it has not complied with UN resolutions on Kashmir, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has told U.S. President Barack Obama. Mr. Obama called Mr. Sharif on Thursday night and both leaders discussed iss

Three American students have been shot to death at a residential complex of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a suspect has been arrested over the incident, according to local police. Chapel Hill police told local news outlets that Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, was arrested and charg

Britain and France have pulled embassy staff out of Yemen and suspended work at their embassies due to fears over the security situation, officials said Wednesday. French nationals were asked Wednesday to leave Yemen as “soon as possible.” “Given the recent political developments and for reaso

(Reuters) - Malaysia's highest court rejected on Tuesday an appeal by opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim against a sodomy conviction, sending the politician who poses the greatest threat to the long-ruling coalition back to prison for five years. The U.N. Human Rights office, the United States and A

WASHINGTON: The White House is struggling to reconcile demands from Democrats against using US ground forces to fight Islamic State militants with those Republicans who want to leave that option open, congressional officials said Monday as lawmakers awaited an administration proposal for new war pow