Jalalabad, December 31: At least 15 people were killed and 13 others were wounded after a suicide attack took place at a funeral in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. The attack took place on Sunday afternoon after which a high-alert has been declared in the city, the governor’s spokesman said.

The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff wants the Trump administration to not make the same mistakes as the Obama administration and fully back protesters in Iran. Retired Adm. Mike Mullen said on ABC’s “This Week” that President Obama should have backed Iranian protesters in 2009 more t

New York: The Trump administration is strongly considering to withhold USD 255 million in aid to Pakistan, reflecting dissatisfaction with Islamabad’s inaction against terror networks, a media report said. The Trump administration’s internal debate over whether to deny Pakistan the money is a tes

New Delhi: Palestine on Saturday called back its Ambassador in Pakistan after he was seen in the company of Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed. “We are supporting India in its fight against terrorism and because of that my government decided to directly call our Ambassador to go back home and no

Islamabad: Reacting upon the allegation made by Bilawal Bhutto in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, Former Pakistani President Parvez Musharraf, said Bilawal Zardari and Nawaz Shareef army want to build pressure on me. He said former president As

Colombo [Sri Lanka], Dec 28 (ANI): The Sri Lankan Government on Thursday said that it will intercede with courts for the release of 70 Indian fishermen lodged in prison as a gesture of goodwill. The appeal for release of 44 fishermen will made before the Oorkavalthurai Court, for eight fishermen

Kabul: At least 40 people were killed and many others were wounded in Kabul multiple blasts near a media outlet and mosque on Thursday, officials said, in the latest violence to hit the Afghan capital. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which comes days after a suicide

Pakistani authorities have sent the shoes of the wife of Kulbhushan Jadhav, the former Indian Navy officer sentenced to death for alleged involvement in spying, for forensic tests as they contained a “metallic substance”. India’s protest over the treatment given to Jadhav’s wife and mother during

Washington: A 1939 luxury Mercedes-Benz limousine used to carry Adolf Hitler around Germany will be auctioned in the US state of Arizona next month – one of only four such models ever built. Powered by a 7.7-litre supercharged engine capable of exceeding 160kmh, the Mercedes-Benz 770K Grosser – k

Egypt’s Prisons Authority says 15 Islamic militants convicted of staging a deadly attack on an army checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula four years ago have been executed. Tuesday’s executions in two prisons to the west and northwest of Cairo is the largest known number of executions on a single day

BENGALURU: Its bad time for US-Indian professionals, the Department of Homeland Security is readying a proposal that will make getting an H-1B tougher. It is looking to impose stricter restrictions on the H-B petitioner’s selection process. According to TOI, International immigration firm Fragome

Dhaka [Bangladesh]: Bangladesh Health Minister Mohammed Nasim has said that Rohingya refugees will return to their homeland as soon as the international community and the UN pressurise Myanmar into repatriating them. “Bangladesh government has an extremely tolerant approach towards Rohingyas and

Moscow: A passenger bus in Russia’s Moscow killed 4 people on Monday as it deviated from the course to hit the busy pedestrian underpass, Russian media reported. The mishap occurred on one of the busiest roads, near the Slavyansky Boulevard metro station, of country’s capital. As per the news

The latest U.N. sanctions against North Korea are an act of war and tantamount to a complete economic blockade against the country, North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said on December 24, threatening to punish those who supported the measure. The U.N. Security Council unanimously imposed new sanction

Istanbul: President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan is emerging as the spiritual leader of all the Muslims around the world. Now, he is making an attempt to bring all the Muslims under one roof by developing a common language and attitude. According to the report published in Anadolu Agency, Hami

New Delhi: India tops the world in the number of migrants abroad and more than half of the 16.59 million live in the Gulf region, according to a UN report. The 2017 International Migration Report released here on December 18 showed that during this century’s period of rapid globalisation, the num

TORONTO: ThinkData Works Inc., a big-data processing firm, just hired a software engineer from Brazil through Canada’s new fast-track visa program for high-skilled workers. “The process was bang on,” Bryan Smith, chief executive officer of the Toronto-based company, said. It took less than the go

МOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will be the only country to take part in rebuilding Syrian energy facilities, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Monday, after holding talks in Syria with President Bashar al-Assad, the RIA news agency reported. Rogozin was speaking a week after Preside