An Iraqi court sentenced a French woman to life in prison today for membership in the Islamic State group. Melina Boughedir(28), was initially sentenced to six months in jail for entering the country illegally, but the court imposed a tougher sentence after prosecutors presented new evidence, inc

Ramallah, Palestinian Territories: Palestinian football boss Jibril Rajoub on Sunday called on Barcelona star Lionel Messi not to play in an Argentina-Israel game in Jerusalem and urged fans to burn their shirts if he does. Rajoub, head of the Palestinian Football Association, has long demanded s

Cairo: President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in at the Egyptian parliament for a second term on Saturday after winning an election by a landslide in March. A 63-year-old former intelligence chief and defence minister, Sisi overthrew Islamist Mohamed Mursi - Egypt's first freely-elected preside

NEW DELHI: In order to boost its anti-tank capability against arch-rival Pakistan, the Government of India is reportedly keen on buying 'Spike' missiles from Israel. According to a Bloomberg report, the Government of India (GoI) may soon place an order for buying the Spike anti-tank guided missil

Moscow, Russia: A Russian pilot who was missing presumed dead after his plane was shot down three decades ago during the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan has been found alive and wants to come home, Russian military veterans said Friday. "He is still alive. It's very astonishing. Now he needs h

A day after being granted a full pardon by US President Donald Trump, Indian American political commentator and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza Thursday targeted former attorney Preet Bharara — who had indicted him in 2014 for violating federal campaign law — for wanting to “destroy a fellow Indian America

A man killed two policewomen and a bystander in the Belgian city of Liege on Tuesday before being shot dead in a gun battle at a school in what prosecutors are treating as a terrorist attack. The man was named by public broadcaster RTBF as a 36-year-old petty criminal who had been let out on day-

A senior North Korean official made a rare visit to the United States on Wednesday for talks about a possible summit between the leaders of the two countries but the sides appeared far apart on the central issue of Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons. Kim Yong Chol, a close aide of North Korean leader Kim J

The family of the young boy saved by “Spiderman” Mamoudou Gassama in a daring rescue that won him global acclaim and a promise of French citizenship has thanked the Malian youth for his quick thinking. Gassama, 22, scaled four storeys of an apartment bloc in France on Saturday to rescue the four-

Peshawar: A renowned Sikh religious leader and rights activist was today gunned down here in Pakistan's northwestern city, according to a media report. Charnjit Singh, 52, was killed inside his shop in Scheme Chowk area in the outskirts of the city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Express Tribune

Canberra: Australia said it held out hope Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 would one day be found as the last search of the seabed in the remote Indian Ocean where it was believed to have been lost was scheduled to end today. Malaysia said last week the search by Texas-based company Ocean Infinity wo

Johannesburg: A nine-year-old Indian-origin girl was on Monday killed in a botched car hijacking, leading to angry protests by the community members in the Indian township of Chatsworth in Durban. The girl, Sadia Sukhraj, was on her way to school with her father when three armed men allegedly acc

Egypt's top administrative court ruled on Saturday that regulators must block the video file-sharing site YouTube for one month over a video that denigrates the Prophet Mohammad, a lawyer who filed the case told Reuters. A lower administrative court had ordered that the Ministry of Communications an

China will host Iranian President Hassan Rouhani next month at a regional summit in a Chinese coastal city, the country’s foreign ministry said on Monday, as major power scramble to save Iran’s nuclear deal after the United States pulled out. Rouhani will pay a working visit to China and attend t

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj intervened on Saturday to help some 15 Indians stranded near Everest after some of them tweeted about their plight to her. “Currently stranded in Lukla since two days, Nepal, with copter company looters refusing to evacuate us to Kathmandu unless we pay 600

Toronto, May 26: Police in Canada were on Saturday looking for the two suspects who detonated a powerful bomb inside an Indian restaurant in Ontario province, leaving 15 people injured, media reports said. The two suspects with their faces covered entered the Bombay Bhel restaurant late on Thursday

WASHINGTON: The US-North Korea nuclear summit is back in the realms of possibility. The two sides continue to play hot and cold on the proposed meeting between their leaders, but President Trump himself indicated on Friday that they had reengaged in talks after they had broken down over what Pyongya

New Delhi: Two days after the release of his book The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace, former ISI chief Asad Durrani has been summoned at the Pakistani army headquarters. Durrani, who co-authored the book with former RAW chief AS Dulat, has been accused of “violating the military