MOSCOW: Even thermometers can't keep up with the plunging temperatures in Russia's remote Yakutia region, which hit minus 67 degrees Celsius (minus 88.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas Tuesday. In Yakutia — a region of 1 million people about 3,300 miles (5,300 kilometers) east of Moscow — stude

DHAKA/COX'S BAZAAR: Bangladesh said on Tuesday it would complete the process of returning within two years many of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who had fled a conflict in Myanmar, following a meeting of the neighbours. The bilateral repatriation plan, which Myanmar said would beg

The United States on Tuesday reiterated its demand for Pakistan to act against the Haqqani Network and other terror groups operating from its soil, saying it wants to forge a “new relationship” with the country based on mutual interests. Visiting US acting assistant secretary of state Alice Wells

An experimental tower over 100 metres (328 feet) high in northern China – dubbed the world’s biggest air purifier by its operators – has brought a noticeable improvement in air quality, according to the scientist leading the project, as authorities seek ways to tackle the nation’s chronic smog probl

WASHINGTON: The execution date of the First NRI death-row prisoner in US 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-month-ol

London [UK]: After United States President Donald Trump cancelled his planned visit to London, Mayor Sadiq Khan on Friday said that the former “got the message” from Londoners. Khan said that Trump’s visit would have been hampered by mass protests as the U. S. President views are opposite of the

BEIJING, CHINA: Chinese rescuers Saturday recovered two bodies and the "black box" from a stricken Iranian oil tanker which has been ablaze for the past week off the east coast of China, the transport ministry said. The Sanchi, carrying 136,000 tonnes of light crude oil from Iran, has been in fla

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