ISLAMABAD :  Pakistan's army has sentenced a general to life imprisonment for spying and ordered the death penalty for a brigadier and a civilian officer convicted in the same case, a military statement said on Thursday. Following a closed-door military trial, army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa

Israeli lawmakers voted to dissolve parliament on Thursday, paving the way for a new election after veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a coalition government before a midnight deadline. Netanyahu preferred a new ballot, set for Sept. 17, to the alternative, under which Israe

A California hospital on Wednesday disclosed the birth of the world's smallest baby ever to survive, weighing a mere 245 grams (8.6 ounces) -- the same as a large apple -- when she was born. The girl, nicknamed Saybie by hospital staff, was born 23 weeks and three days into her mother's pregnancy a

At least seven people were killed and nearly 20 were missing after a pleasure boat carrying South Korean tourists capsized on the flooding Danube in the Hungarian capital on Wednesday, police and ambulance officials said. The boat reportedly collided with another tourist vessel near the Hungarian

The US Treasury Department has removed India from its currency monitoring list of major trading partners. It, however, continued to keep China on its watch list, while urging the Asian nation to take necessary steps to avoid a "persistently weak currency". In its semi-annual report to US Congress

New York: Barely a month after TIME magazine put out an article calling Narendra Modi ‘Divider in chief’, the US-based publication took a U-turn on its stand on India’s Prime Minister after he returned to power with a bigger mandate in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, saying ‘Modi has united India like

Mexico City: Mexican prosecutors say a Japanese man who died aboard an airliner shortly after take-off from Mexico City had ingested 246 packets of cocaine and went into cardiac arrest from a drug overdose. Sunday's statement was issued by the attorney general's office for the northern state of S

Two people, including a child, were feared dead on Tuesday in a mass stabbing attack that also injured 17 people in the Japanese city of Kawasaki, the local fire department said. “One man and one female child are showing no vital signs,” said fire department official Yuji Sekizawa, employing a ph

Fighting erupted among inmates at a prison in the northern state of Amazonas on Sunday, and at least 15 people died before the riot was brought under control, authorities said. The state prison secretary said in a statement that prisoners began fighting among themselves around noon, and security

A centuries-old ‘Guru Nanak palace’ was partially demolished by a group of vandals who sold its precious windows and doors in Pakistan’s Punjab province, a media report said on Monday. The walls of the four-storey building had pictures of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak as well as that of various Hind

Under fire from various quarters over her approach to Brexit, an emotional Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday announced she will resign on June 7, making her the second prime minister to quit in three years over the deeply polarising issue in contemporary British history. May took over in July

Pakistan is ready to hold talks with the new Indian government to resolve all outstanding issues, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said. Addressing an Iftar dinner in Multan on Saturday, Qureshi said both India and Pakistan should sit on negotiation table to solve issues for the sake of

New Delhi: US president Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be meeting at the G-20 summit on June 28 and 29 in Japan's Osaka. Trump earlier telephoned Modi to congratulate him on the massive victory recorded on May 23. "The leaders look forward to seeing one another at the G-20 Sum

Islamabad: A powerful explosion ripped through a mosque ahead of Friday prayers in Pakistan, killing at least three persons and injuring 28 others in the restive Balochistan province, police said. The blast, trigerred through an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), targeted the Rehmania Mosque in P

President Donald Trump said on Thursday US complaints against Huawei Technologies might be resolved within the framework of a US-China trade deal, while at the same time calling the Chinese telecommunications giant "very dangerous." Washington last week effectively banned US firms from doing busi

Congratulatory messages poured in from world capitals for Narendra Modi. President Vladimir Putin of Russia expressed his readiness to enhance the “comprehensive development of special and privileged strategic partnership” between the two countries. “I would like to reiterate my readiness to c

Islamabad: Pakistan has signalled a willingness to open peace talks with India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi appears set to return to power in New Delhi after an election fought in the shadow of renewed confrontation between the nuclear-armed enemies. But in a possible warning to India, Pakista

LONDON: Prime Minister Theresa May was under intense pressure to name a date for her departure after her final Brexit gambit failed, overshadowing a European election that will show a United Kingdom still riven by divisions over its EU divorce. The labyrinthine Brexit has stunned allies and foes