TEHRAN: Iran on Saturday (Jan 13) rejected any modification of its nuclear deal with world powers after US President Donald Trump demanded tough new measures to keep the agreement alive. Iran "will not accept any amendments in this agreement, be it now or in the future, and it will not allow any

ISLAMABAD: Police on Saturday released new CCTV footage of a person suspected to be involved in the kidnapping, rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Pakistan. Dawn newspaper reported that the footage showed a bearded man bearing a resemblance to the abductor walking through a street where

The Lahore High Court (LHC) has ordered the police chief of Pakistan’s Punjab province to arrest within 36 hours the culprit behind the brutal rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl that shook the country. The LHC Chief Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, hearing a petition filed by an advocate to a

The wife of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, the Indian man who was killed in Kansas city in February 2017 in a hate crime, has been invited to attend United States President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, PTI reported on Friday. The event, which will be held on January 30, is an annual message pre

WASHINGTON: The execution date of the first death-row Indian-American prisoner+ convicted of killing a baby and her Indian grandmother has been set for next month. Raghunandan Yandamuri, 32, in 2014 was given death penalty for kidnapping and killing a 61-year-old elderly Indian woman and her 10-m

On the usually sun-kissed sand dunes of the Sahara desert, a rare blanket of snow allowed Algerians the chance to try out some icy sliding. With temperatures touching 1 degree Celsius (33.8 Fahrenheit), residents in the northern Algerian town of Ain Sefra enjoyed sliding down the small sections of d

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar’s military said on Wednesday its soldiers had murdered 10 captured Muslim “terrorists” during insurgent attacks at the beginning of September, after local Buddhist villagers had forced the captured men into a grave they had dug. “Villagers and members of the security fo

Malaysia signed a deal with an American firm today to resume the search for MH370 almost four years after the plane disappeared, with the company to receive up to $70 million if successful. The new hunt, which will last 90 days, is expected to start in mid-January when a high-tech vessel leased b

Ninety-six gurdwaras in the United States have announced that they will not let in Indian officials and diplomats, as well as members of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Shiv Sena, The Indian Express reported on Tuesday. The Gurudwara Sikh Cultural Society in New York announced the decisio

BEIJING: China on Tuesday denied as "unnecessary" speculation reports that it was planning to build a military base at Jiwani in Pakistan's Balochistan province close to the strategic Chabahar port,+ which is being jointly developed by India, Iran and Afghanistan. According to reports, Pakistan m

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called for the closure of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, days after US President Donald Trump threatened to cut Palestinian aid. Israel has long viewed the UN agency, known as UNRWA, as biased against it, an allegation the a

Washington: The Trump administration’s decision to suspend over USD 1.1 billion security assistance to Pakistan has nothing to do with Islamabad not taking action against Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, a US official has said. “We have certainly expressed our concern about the master

China on January 3 said it had “never acknowledged” the existence of Arunachal Pradesh as it kept mum over a media report that its troops intruded into the Indian side of the border in the frontier State. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang’s response came after a media report said tha

Islamabad: Pakistan on Tuesday expressed "deep disappointment" over US President Donald Trump's scathing remarks against it, saying the accusations strike with "great insensitivity" at the "trust" between the two countries. Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi convened a National Security Council

Washington: The proposed US Bill — Protect and Grow American Jobs — is riddled with “onerous conditions” and places “unprecedented obligations” for H-1B visa rules on both Indian IT companies and clients, software body Nasscom has cautioned. The proposal circulated in the form of an internal memo

Jerusalem: Israel’s Parliament passed an amendment on Tuesday that will make it more difficult for the government to cede parts of East Jerusalem in any future peace deal with the Palestinians. The vote was held overnight with 64 lawmakers voting in favour of the controversial bill and 51 against

Washington: In a scathing attack, President Donald Trump on Monday accused Pakistan of giving nothing to the US but "lies and deceit" in return for USD 33 billion aid and said Islamabad has provided "safe haven" to terrorists. "The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion d

Syria: The worst humanitarian crisis in Syria, war, which has been going on since 2011 has completely devastated the country with millions of people displaced and nearly 400,000 people dead. There is really no hope of these displaced refugees returning back to their country, considering the curre