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

KIEV, Ukraine: Ukraine's president said Sunday that intercepted radio and telephone conversations prove that Russia-backed separatists were responsible for firing the rockets that pounded the southeastern city of Mariupol and killed at least 30 people. The attack on Mariupol, a strategically situ

WASHINGTON: A pair of F-16 fighter jets escorted two US commercial airliners to their landing in Atlanta on Saturday following a bomb threat online, an aviation spokesman said. A threat posted to Twitter prompted the jets to be scrambled for the planes arriving from Portland and Milwaukee, said P

DONETSK: Pro-Russian rebels on Friday vowed to conquer more territory in eastern Ukraine and ruled out peace talks after Kiev retreated from a long-disputed airport, casting aside Europe's latest push for a truce. The defiant comments from Donetsk separatist leader Alexander Zakharchenko came as

WASHINGTON: Beyond all the optics and symbolism of the US president being chief guest at India's Republic Day celebrations, President Obama is arriving in New Delhi with his eye on at least one big prize: A climate change deal, at least of the kind he has clinched with China. US officials who pre

KINGSTON: Jamaica's Cabinet has approved a much-anticipated bill of drug law amendments that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of pot and pave the way for a legal medical marijuana industry on the Caribbean island, the justice minister said Wednesday. Following the Cabinet's authori

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama called for higher taxes on wealthy Americans and new initiatives to boost the middle class as he urged Americans to turn the page on years of economic woes and hard-fought wars in his sixth State of the Union address before Congress. Some highlights from Obama's

BEIJING: China has snubbed Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida for his statement acknowledging Arunachal Pradesh as part of India. The Chinese foreign ministry spokesman slammed Japan, asking it to mind its own business instead of interfering in India-China relationship. The Chinese reaction cam

DHAKA: The 17-day virtual house arrest of Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia was on Monday lifted unexpectedly by authorities here, amid renewed violence over last year's disputed polls that left at least 28 people dead. The additional police and barricade around the Bangladesh Nationalist