Who's the clown everyone's talking about in Ukraine? The answer is their newly-elected president. Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky, who is known for playing the Ukranian president on television, won the presidential elections against incumbent president Petro Poroshenko with a landslide vict

Oil prices jumped on Monday as the United States looked set to announce that all buyers of Iranian oil must end their imports or be subject to sanctions. Brent crude futures rose as much as 3.3 percent to $74.31 a barrel, the highest since Nov. 1, before easing back to $73.62 by 0647 GMT, which w

Qingdao (China): Warships from India, Australia and several other nations arrived in the eastern Chinese port city of Qingdao on Sunday to attend a naval parade, part of a goodwill visit as China extends the hand of friendship despite regional tensions and suspicions. China on Tuesday will mark 7

As Libya’s capital Tripoli continues to be hit by violence, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday asked the 500 Indians stuck there to leave immediately. The Minister also cautioned that if the Indians stranded in the Libyan capital do not leave immediately, then it may not be possibl

Singapore has extradited an Indian national to the United States to face charges in a call center fraud that scammed millions of dollars from victims in the United States, the Justice Department announced Friday. Hitesh Madhubhai Patel, 42, of Ahmedabad was scheduled to be arraigned Friday in a H

Hopes for a breakthrough in a push to end Afghanistan's gruelling conflict suffered a major setback Friday after a key summit between the Taliban and Afghan officials was indefinitely postponed. The so-called intra-Afghan dialogue, which was due to take place in Doha this weekend, fell apart at the

New Delhi: The Indian Government has decided to suspend all cross-LoC trade with Pakistan from Thursday as the routes were being used by elements in Pakistan to push weapons, narcotics and counterfeit currency into India. "Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has issued orders to suspend the LoC trade

Islamabad/Karachi: Unidentified gunmen donning uniforms of paramilitary soldiers on Thursday killed at least 14 passengers, including Pakistan Navy personnel, after forcing them to disembark from buses on a highway in the restive Balochistan province, in the latest targeted attack in the country.

Asad Umar had been fighting fire for several months now even as Pakistan's economy went from bad to worse to absolute tatters. In recent weeks, the country's finance minister had been targeted by opposition parties for being ineffective in tackling the spiralling state of the economy and on Thursday

China on Wednesday said the festering issue of blacklisting Pakistan-based terrorist Masood Azhar at the UN was moving towards a “settlement” and asked the US not to push through its own resolution to list him. China’s foreign ministry rejected reports that said the US, the UK, and France had ask

The overnight operation against terrorists in Peshawar, Pakistan, came to an end on Tuesday after the Pakistan Army and the police jointly killed at least five terrorists. The Army and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) police conducted a joint intelligence-based operation in Hayatabad Phase VII, Peshawar,

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: A New Zealand nurse believed abducted with two drivers by ISIS terrorists in Syria in 2013 may still be alive, the International Committee of the Red Cross has revealed for the first time in an appeal for news of her whereabouts. Louisa Akavi was snatched along with Syrian dr

GENEVA: India, South Africa and China are among those that have pushed back against a joint US-EU proposal to call out and punish countries that have not followed notification requirements under various World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements. The countries feel it is unfair to impose harsh requir

NEPAL: A small plane veered off the runway and hit two helicopters while taking off near Mount Everest on Sunday, killing three people and injuring three, officials said. The accident happened at Lukla airport which is the main gateway to the Everest region and is reputed to be one of the most di

Israeli planes targeted a military position near the Syrian province of Hama wounding six soldiers, but the country's air defences intercepted and downed some of the rockets, Syria's state news agency reported. Citing military sources, SANA news agency and state television said that Israeli aircr

After getting banned for two to three week in several districts of Gujarat, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds has been banned in Nepal, according to the latest report in the Kathmandu Post. The move comes after the Nepal Metropolitan Crime Division filed a Public Interest Litigation with the Kathmandu D

New Delhi/Moscow: In another honour for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russia has conferred the Indian leader with its highest state decoration. The Russian embassy announced on Friday that its government has decided to honour PM Modi with the ‘Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle’. The embassy said

At least 16 people were killed in a bomb blast that appears to have targeted minority Hazara community in Pakistan’s Quetta on Friday, Dawn reported. Deputy Inspector General Abdul Razzaq Cheema told DawnNewsTV that an improvised explosive device was used in the attack. Cheema said at least one F