Russian and Syrian warplanes have relentlessly bombed rebel-held enclaves in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta in what has been one of the most devastating attacks in the country’s seven-year civil war. President Bashar Al-Assad’s ramped up offensive to restore state control in Syria has left a massive death t

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would have entered the Florida school to save the students from a gunman even without a weapon, as he criticised the inaction of a sheriff’s deputy assigned to the school. Last week, Mr. Trump called out the armed school resource officer who stayed o

MEXICO CITY (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations remains hopeful that U.S. President Donald Trump will change his mind on withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement to tackle climate change, and will stay in the 2015 global deal, the U.N. climate chief said. Trump announced

Michelle Obama's forthcoming memoir, Becoming, is set for worldwide release on November 13, at which time the former first lady will embark on a global tour to promote the book, publisher Penguin Random House said on Sunday. The volume fulfills half of the deal the company reached with former US Pr

The ancient Colosseum in Rome was illuminated in red on Saturday in protest against persecution of Christians around the world, Reuters reported. Catholic group Aid to the Church in Need organised the protest at the amphitheatre, where the first Christians were killed centuries ago. The protestor

BEIJING: In an unprecedented move, China's ruling Communist Party today prepared the ground for President Xi Jinping to stay in power indefinitely after the end of his second term in 2022 as it proposed to remove presidential term limits from the party's Constitution. The CPC Central Committee pr

Pakistan’s Interior Minister said on Saturday that authorities were taking steps not to please the US but for the country’s own benefit, a day after Islamabad avoided being placed in a watch-list by a global watchdog. Pakistan escaped from being placed on the watch-list of countries that have fai

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A series of militant attacks in Afghanistan killed more than 20 people, officials said on Saturday, ahead of an international meeting next week aimed at building diplomatic support for hoped-for peace talks with the Taliban. Taliban militants attacked an Afghan

A bright UFO was reportedly spotted twice at a remote area in northern Norway on Thursday, February 22. The mysterious light was spotted by observers in Bardufoss and around 80 miles (129 kilometres) away in the city of Tromsø. The UFO was reportedly seen hovering in the sky until sunset. Accordi

WASHINGTON: The Trump administration has announced a new policy that makes very tough the procedure of issuing H-1B visas to those to be employed at one or more third-party worksites, a move that will hugely impact Indian IT companies and their employees+ . Under the new policy, the company would

BEIRUT, ISTANBUL: The Turkish army struck a convoy entering Syria's Kurdish-held Afrin region, which Ankara said carried fighters and weapons but Kurdish forces said was made up of civilians entering with food and medicine. In a statement on Friday, the Turkish military said a fleet of some 30-40

India has been ranked at 81st place out of 180 countries on a ‘Corruption Perception Index’, in a list released by Transparency International. India’s ranking is worse than those of China and Bhutan but better than those of Pakistan and Bangladesh. The index ranks the countries by their perceived le

Embattled Pakistani politician and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday criticised the Supreme Court verdict disqualifying him as ruling party head and claimed an attempt has been made to oust him from politics. Three time former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was disqualified from the Par

An Indian Sikh man’s turban was ripped by a white man in an apparent racist attack outside the UK parliament, according to a media report. Ravneet Singh (37), from Punjab in India, said he was waiting to enter the Portcullis House, part of the British Parliamentary Estate, to meet Sikh Labour MP

Lima: At least 44 people died in Peru on Wednesday when a bus hurtled some 100 meters into a ravine in the mountainous south in the country's second major bus crash in 2018, a local official said. "According to a report from the Peruvian National Police, there are 44 confirmed deaths as of now,"

Washington, Feb 21 (PTI) Facing public wrath after the deadly school massacre in Florida, President Donald Trump has decided to consider banning bump stocks, a controversial device that turns semi-automatic rifles into machine guns that can fire hundreds of rounds a minute. Trump yesterday said h

LAHORE: Krishna Kumari Kohli from Thar in Pakistan's Sindh province will become the first-ever Hindu woman Senator in the Muslim-majority country, the Pakistan People's Party said today. The Election Commission of Pakistan has accepted the papers of the 39-year-old who was nominated by the ruling

Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered on Wednesday that ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif be removed as head of the political party he founded, six months after the court removed him as premier. The order overturns a change in the law by Sharif's ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz that allowed the f