LOS ANGELES: "Harry Potter" star Emma Watson on Friday tweeted in support of lawyer Deepika Singh Rajawat, who is fighting the case of a minor girl whose rape and murder in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir sent shockwaves globally. Ms Watson on Friday shared an article about "How the Kathua r

LOS ANGELES: The US state of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted Thursday, causing lava to spew out of ground fissures in residential areas and prompting thousands of people to flee. The Pacific island state's governor signed an emergency proclamation releasing disaster funds to the Big Island in th

Occupied Jerusalem: The Israeli parliament has approved a law empowering the country’s prime minister and defense minister to declare war without full Cabinet approval in “extreme circumstances.” While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a presentation showcasing intelligence on Iran’s nu

Pakistan on Thursday dismissed rumours that the decision to move Shakeel Afridi, the doctor who helped the CIA track Osama bin Laden, from a prison in Peshawar to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi was part of a possible deal with the United States government to free him. Afridi was a senior medical offic

India has joined the U.S. and China as one of the world’s five biggest military spenders, reflecting geopolitical tensions as well as the country’s reliance on imported weapons and sprawling personnel costs. New Delhi’s defense spending rose by 5.5 percent to $63.9 billion in 2017 and has now pas

TRIPOLI, LIBYA: A suicide attack on Libya's electoral commission killed at least 11 people in the capital Tripoli on Wednesday, authorities in the violence-wracked country said, after witnesses reported thick smoke and gunfire. The internationally backed Government of National Accord (GNA) said i

A new scan of the Indian Ocean floor for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has searched nearly 80,000 square kilometers since January without finding any sign of the wreckage. But the company looking for the plane, which has been missing for more than four years, said it is still determined to find it.

WASHINGTON: Several Indian-American IT professionals have held two rallies in the US, demanding an end to the long and massive green card backlog by eliminating per-country limit quota. The rallies were organised over the weekend in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Participants argued that per countr

At least 25 people were killed and over 45 wounded in twin explosions that rocked Afghanistan capital, Kabul, on Monday morning. The first explosion was followed by another in which, Shah Marai, a photographer with news agency AFP along with a cameraman of local news channel Tolo TV station died wer

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said U.S. President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the standoff with North Korea over its nuclear weapons programme, a South Korean official said on Monday. "President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. What we need is only

Archaeologists in Peru have found evidence of the biggest-ever sacrifice of children, uncovering the remains of more than 140 youngsters who were slain alongside 200 llamas as part of a ritual offering some 550 years ago, National Geographic announced on April 26. The site was located on top of a

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Sunday that a ban on Filipino workers from heading to Kuwait that’s been in effect since February would now be permanent, inflaming a dispute sparked by complaints of the abuse of Filipina housemaids and workers in the Gulf country. Kuwait on Wednesday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for India on Saturday after holding the two-day informal summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. PM Modi had arrived in China on Thursday for the unprecedented informal summit with Xi. The prime minister held one-on-one talks w

GENEVA: The UN rights chief on Friday urged Israeli forces to stop using excessive force against Palestinian protesters and called for troops who have committed abuses "to be held accountable." "Every week, we witness instances of use of lethal force against unarmed demonstrators," the UN High Co

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday warned his US counterpart Donald Trump that abandoning a nuclear deal that the Tehran government signed with world powers in 2015 would lead to "serious consequences". Speaking live on television, Rouhani said his government had kept its end of the deal

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese woman born in the final year of the 19th century and believed to have been the world's oldest person died on Saturday, Kyodo news agency said. She was 117. Nabi Tajima, born in 1900, died from old age at a hospital on her native southwestern island of Kikaijima, Kyodo s

A woman was denied French nationality after refusing to shake hands with officials during the official citizenship ceremony, it has been reported this week. The Algerian woman was attending the official ceremony in Isere south east France after her successfully applying for citizenship via her ma

Myanmar army chief Min Aung Hlaing has told military personnel in the country that they must obey the law, citing as an example the sentencing of seven soldiers for a massacre of Rohingya Muslim men that was the subject of a Reuters investigation. In a speech at a military school in the country’s no