The Egyptian authorities have suspended football league matches indefinitely after at least 22 fans were killed in clashes with police at a Cairo stadium. People were crushed in a stampede after police fired tear gas at supporters of Zamalek who were trying to gain entry to a match against city riv

KABUL: More than 30,000 Afghans living in Pakistan have returned home since the start of the year after coming under intense scrutiny following a Taleban massacre at a Peshawar school in December, the IOM said Sunday. There are an estimated three million Afghan refugees living in Pakistan either of

A national disaster preparedness official in Guatemala says the Fire Volcano has exploded, spewing incandescent rock and ash that dusted surrounding communities. Spokesman David de Leon says authorities put the southern Guatemala area on alert, though no evacuations have been made so far. Kari

Niger's forces killed 109 fighters from the Islamist militant group Boko Haram on Friday as they repulsed attacks on Bosso and Diffa, two southeastern towns near the Nigerian border, Niger state television said. Four Niger soldiers were killed, 13 were wounded and two are missing after the fighti

Beirut: At least 66 people were killed on Thursday as Syria's regime pounded a rebel stronghold with air strikes after a barrage of opposition fire hit the capital Damascus, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 12 children were among those killed in the opposition-held Eas

The president of the U.N. Human Rights Council appointed on Tuesday U.S. judge Mary McGowan Davis as the new head of the U.N. inquiry into the Gaza war. The appointment came after Professor William Schabas quit on Monday, following Israeli allegations of bias. Israel allegedly provided informatio

PUEBLO, Colorado: The United States is about to begin destroying its largest remaining stockpile of chemical-laden artillery shells, marking a milestone in the global campaign to eradicate a debilitating weapon that still creeps into modern wars. The Pueblo Chemical Depot in southern Colorado plans

A Taiwanese commercial flight with 58 passengers aboard clipped a bridge shortly after takeoff and crashed into a river in the island’s capital of Taipei on Wednesday morning. Taiwan state media reports 8 dead in crash of passenger flight into Taipei river after takeoff. Taiwan’s Central News

The EU has criticized Monday's decision of a court in Egypt to sentence 183 defendants to death following a mass trial as a "violation of Egypt's international human rights obligations." "We call on the Egyptian judicial authorities to ensure that due legal process is followed, in line with inter

U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday sent to Republican-controlled Congress a $3.99 trillion budget proposal, which is likely to face opposition there especially regarding the White House’s policies to levy a one-time 14 per cent tax on the $2 trillion in profits currently held overseas by U.S. cor

CAIRO: An Egyptian court Monday confirmed death sentences against 183 men convicted of killing 13 policemen. The policemen were killed in an attack on a police station in Kerdasa, a town on the outskirts of Cairo, on Aug. 14, 2013. The attack took place on the same day that security forces killed

HONG KONG: Thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators marched through Hong Kong’s streets Sunday in the first major rally since mass protests last year. Chanting “No fake universal suffrage. I want genuine universal suffrage,” the demonstrators held yellow umbrellas, which became a symbol of the earl

ADDIS ABABA: African leaders have agreed to send 7,500 troops to fight the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria, an African Union official said on Saturday. The move came after the council urged heads of state to endorse the deployment of troops from five West African countries to fight the

Venezuela said on Friday it shot down a civilian plane after it ignored communications off its Caribbean coast near the island of Aruba, but denied any violation of international airspace. Authorities on Aruba, a semi-autonomous island that is part of the kingdom of the Netherlands, had said on T

The Malaysian government has officially declared the disappearance of Malaysian Airline flight MH370 an accident and says there were no survivors. No trace of the Beijing-bound aircraft has been found since it disappeared on 8 March 2014. Officials say that the recovery operation is ongoing but

Researchers at the Institut Pasteur in France, which first identified the outbreak last March, are investigating whether it could have become more contagious. More than 22,000 people have been infected with Ebola and 8,795 have died in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Scientists are starting

NEW DELHI/BEIJING: As the dust settles on India's nuclear deal with the US, it is their China-centric joint strategic vision for the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean Region issued after PM Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama's summit meet, which promises to be an outcome of far-reaching implicatio

Letter draws President Obama's attention to deteriorating situation with respect to religious freedom situation in India Monday, January 26, 2015 The Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC - www.iamc.com), an advocacy group dedicated to safeguarding India's pluralist and tolerant ethos has marke