TOKYO:  North Korea is threatening to reconsider Kim Jong Un's participation in a summit with President Donald Trump next month, saying that it is up to the United States to decide whether it wants to "meet us at a meeting room or encounter us at nuclear-to-nuclear showdown." The punchy statement

New Delhi: In what could turn out to be a step towards betterment of the bitter Indo-Pak relations, India is all set to participate in an anti-terror meeting in Islamabad. A statement issued by the Pakistan Foreign Office said that the Anti-Terrorist Structure (SCO-RATS) Legal Experts meeting wou

Eight South Korean journalists arrived in North Korea Wednesday after receiving a last-minute approval by the reclusive regime to observe the dismantling of the North's nuclear test site. The South Koreans were supposed to have joined a group of foreign journalists from the United States, Britain

Mosques in China must raise the national flag to promote the spirit of patriotism, the country’s top regulatory body for Islam announced over the weekend. The government-affiliated China Islamic Association issued a statement directing Muslim clerics to display the five-starred red flag at promin

Pakistan will raise the issue of India’s alleged violation of the Indus Waters Treaty with the World Bank, a media report said on Sunday, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 330 MW Kishanganga hydroelectric project in Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan’s ambassador to the US, Aizaz

NEW YORK:  Two prominent Indian-American executives are among 19 people appointed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as members to an organisation that addresses the city's most pressing challenges, with a particular focus on improving the lives of vulnerable New Yorkers. Hotel Association of

An aging airliner crashed Friday shortly after takeoff on a domestic flight in Cuba, officials and Cuban news media reported, leaving more than 100 people dead in an accident that highlighted the precarious state of the country's commercial aircraft fleet. The plane, a Boeing 737-200 leased by st

ISTANBUL: Turkey called on Muslim countries to stop other nations from following the United States and opening embassies in Jerusalem, as it opened a meeting in Istanbul on Friday. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called the summit of the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), after

Veteran spy Gina Haspel will become the first female director of the CIA after six Democrats joined Republicans in a Senate confirmation vote on Thursday that overrode concerns about her role in the spy agency’s harsh interrogation program after 9/11. The 54-45 vote split both parties, and the ma

Nearly 6,100 eligible applications for UK work visa were rejected due to an annual cap between December 2017 and March 2018. That was found by the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE), an independent advocate for science and engineering, based on figures from the UK Home Office via a Freedom

President Donald Trump on Wednesday hammered California for its so-called sanctuary immigration policies, in what appeared to be his latest push to embolden his base leading into the midterm elections. As the debate over immigration heats up on Capitol Hill, Trump surrounded himself with mayors,

More than 50 people, including eight children, were killed by the Israeli military in Palestinian protests that erupted Monday along the Gaza border as the U.S. opened its new embassy in Jerusalem, Palestinian authorities said. The deaths and injuries to over 2,400 people came mostly from gunfire

Four people were killed and 27 others wounded Wednesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a tent filled with mourners in north Baghdad, Iraqi police and medical sources said. The attack hit the Taji district of the Iraqi capital at around 1030 GMT, a police source said. Medical sources

BEIJING: China on Tuesday expressed serious concern over the violent clashes in the Gaza Strip that left dozens of Palestinians dead and called on both Israel and Palestine to exercise restraint. Israeli forces killed 59 Palestinians during clashes and protests along the Gaza border against the US

The US on Monday opened its embassy in Jerusalem, a city at the epicenter of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, even as protests erupted over its transfer from Tel Aviv. Palestinians clashed with Israeli soldiers, who shot at least 37 protesters in Gaza, in the deadliest escalation of violence since 2

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold an informal summit with Russsian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi on May 21, the Ministry of External Affairs has announced. The interaction will be part of the regular consultation between the leadership of two countries. “This will be an important occasio

At least five medical students were killed and over 20 others swept away after an old wooden bridge on a river in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) collapsed on Sunday. According to reports in Pakistani media, the incident took place when the students, who were in their early 20s, were clicking pho

SURABAYA: Suicide bombers who carried out deadly attacks on three churches in Indonesia's second-largest city on Sunday were a family who had been in Syria and included two young children, police said, as the world's most populous Muslim nation recoiled in horror at one of the worst attacks on its C