Iran President Hassan Rouhani has threatened again to close the Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for nearly a third of all oil traded by sea. “If someday, the United States decides to block Iran’s oil (exports), no oil will be exported from the Persian Gulf,” the state TV quoted Rouha

The brother of Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly framing a love rival as the author of a terrorist hit list. Arsakan Khawaja, 39, is accused of trying to set up his former university colleague Mohamed Kamer Nizamdeen, by convincing police that the 26-year-o

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday said that former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had told him that Kashmir would have been resolved if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had not lost the 2004 Lok Sabha elections. In an interview to a group of television journalists here, Khan added

Muhammadu Buhari, the President of Nigeria, recently issued a statement denying rumors that he had died and been replaced by a body double. Following Buhari’s five month absence from the country, as he sought treatment for an unnamed, serious illness in the UK, rumors began to circulate in Nigeria t

JAIPUR: Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said Pakistan can seek India's help if it cannot handle the fight against terrorism alone. "I want to ask the Pakistani prime minister (Imran Khan) that if in Aghanistan, a fight can be carried out against terror and Taliban with the help of the US, then,

Former United States President George Herbert Walker Bush died at his home in Houston, Texas, late Friday, his spokesperson said in a statement. He was 94 and had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease in recent years. Bush was president from 1989 to 1993. His death came months after that of his

Washington: The Trump administration on Friday proposed major changes to the H-1B application process with the aim of awarding the visa to the most skilled and highest paid foreign workers. Under a new proposed merit-based rule, a notice for which was issued on Friday, companies employing foreign

Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said in Pune on Friday that Pakistan needs to be a secular state to have better ties with India, reports ANI. “Pakistan has made its state an Islamic State. If they have to stay together with India, then they have to develop as a secular state. If they’re willing to

WASHINGTON: US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Wednesday slammed Beijing for failing to offer "meaningful reform" on aggressive trade policies that harm US workers and industry, and threatened tariffs on Chinese autos. The latest trade threat against China comes days before President Do

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's military chief was remanded by court Wednesday after weeks evading arrest over the alleged cover-up of the abduction and murder of 11 young men during the island's civil war. Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne is the highest-ranking military officer ever held by a court over alle

A blast near a chemical plant in Zhangjiakou city in China’s northern Hebei province early on Wednesday killed 22 people and injured at least 22 others, the local government said. A video of the blast scene shared by state media showed billowing black smoke and flames, while photographs showed ro

SYDNEY: Torrential rain triggered flash flooding that turned streets into rivers in Sydney, Australia's biggest city, on Wednesday, causing major disruptions to the morning commute. A spokesman for Ausgrid, the nation's biggest electricity network, said the storm had so far left 8,100 homes without

Authorities in Myanmar seized a boat carrying 93 Rohingya fleeing displacement camps in western Rakhine state in hopes to reach Malaysia, an official said on Tuesday. The vessel was the third bound for Malaysia stopped in Myanmar's waters since monsoon rains began to subside last month, bringing

US President Donald Trump has expressed strong support for India in its fight against terrorism as the country remembers the terror attacks in Mumbai 10 years ago that left over 160 dead and hundreds injured. "On the ten-year anniversary of the Mumbai terror attack, the U.S. stands with the peopl

West Palm Beach (Florida): President Donald Trump congratulated himself for falling oil prices . He chided the Federal Reserve over interest rates . He claimed Central American countries are trying to dump "certain people" into the United States. Trump's Florida holiday stay was ending Sunday wit

  New Delhi: The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has proposed changes in the popular H-1B visa lottery system, through which they select 85,000 applications every year out of a larger pool of H-1B applications, the Times of India reported. From this April, which is the fil

A cargo ship carrying 14 crew members sunk in waters off Bali coast in Indonesia, rescuers said they were searching for seven crew members on Sunday. KM Multi Prima One cargo ship heading to Waingapu town of East Nusa Tenggara province capsized in Bali Gulf after leaving waters off Surabaya, head

Pressure continues to mount over allegations of corruption in the purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets from France from both within and outside the country. According to French news portal Mediapart, a local non-governmental organisation (NGO) has approached the National Financial Prosecutor’s offi