ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday lashed out at his US counterpart Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, saying it would put the region in a “ring of fire”. “Taking this type of step puts the world, especially the region, in a ring of fi

Strongly protesting against Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Palestinian Christians in Bethlehem burned posters of President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening. Hundreds of Palestinians who gathered in Gaza and Ramallah and burned posters featuring Donald Trump’s face and the te

London: Vijay Mallya’s defence team on Tuesday argued that there was no evidence to support the case of fraud presented against him by the government of India as the liquor baron returned to court in London on day two of his extradition trial. The 61-year-old, wanted in India on charges of fraud

Yemeni rebels killed their erstwhile ally Ali Abdullah Saleh, the country’s former president and strongman, as their forces battled for control of the capital, Sanaa, officials said. The collapse of their alliance throws Yemen’s nearly 3-year-old civil war into unpredictable new chaos. The circum

MUMBAI: London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Sunday said it was important to protect women rights, while condemning the practice of triple talaq. Speaking to ANI in Mumbai, referring to the practice of triple talaq, Khan said, “It is important to protect women rights. In UK, there are examples where the ri

London: Embattled liquor baron Vijay Mallya, out on a 650,000-pound bail bond following his arrest by Scotland Yard over fraud and money laundering charges earlier this year, will return to Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London on Monday as his extradition trial begins. The 61-year-old busines

Dhaka: Pope Francis, the spiritual leader of Catholics, asked forgiveness from refugees in Bangladesh for all the hurt and indifference they have endured. He met the community in Bangladesh on Friday and used the term ‘Rohingya’ (politically sensitive name for the persecuted minority) for the first

Tel Aviv: Tens of thousands of people have protested in Tel Aviv against what they say is corruption within the government and the slow pace of investigations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu is suspected of receiving luxury gifts from wealthy supporters and has also faced pol

Qatar: Israel has launched missiles at a military installation outside the Syrian capital Damascus. Two missiles were intercepted in response. The “blatant assault” led to material losses at the site in the countryside around the capital, the Syrian state media reported. The Israeli militar

A strong quake of magnitude 6.0 struck southeastern Iran near the city of Kerman on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake, initially reported as a magnitude 6.3, was centered 36 miles (58 km) northeast of Kerman, which has a population of more than 821,000. It struck at 6:32 a.m.

PESHAWAR: Three burqa-clad Taliban militants on Friday stormed an agriculture training institute in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar and opened indiscriminate fire, killing at least 12 people, half of them students, before being shot dead by security forces. The heavily-armed militants, w

The U.S. on Thursday warned Kim Jong-Un’s regime that North Korea would be “utterly destroyed” if a standoff over its missile tests leads to a war and asked all countries to sever economic and diplomatic ties with Pyongyang to punish it for its “acts of aggression”. Speaking at an emergency meeti

Myanmar: Pope Francis was on a visit to Violence-hit Myanmar and shared the stage with Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi in the capital city Naypyidaw. Though in his speech, Francis did not directly mention the name of Rohingya or alleged cleansing of minorities in the Buddhist dominated State, he

Pakistan’s former President Pervez Musharraf has called himself the “biggest supporter” of the Lashkar-e- Taiba and its founder Hafiz Saeed and asserted that he backs the terror group’s role in “suppressing” the Indian Army in Kashmir. Musharraf, the 74-year-old retired General who is on self-exi

Kabul: At least five prisoners, who were sentenced to death over kidnapping charges, have been hanged to death at Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul. The General Directorate of Prisons and Detention Centers of the Ministry of Interior (MoI) confirmed this in a statement. The men were also found gui

Denpasar: Bali’s international airport will re-open Wednesday afternoon after a nearly three-day shutdown, Indonesian airport authorities said, as ash from a rumbling volcano that looms over the island paradise shifted direction. The eagerly awaited decision opens up a window of hope for some of

NEW YORK: A 21-year-old Indian man has been shot dead in front of his house during a robbery in the US state of Mississippi, according to a media report, days after another Indian student was killed by four armed robbers. Sandeep Singh was shot in the stomach during a robbery reported on Sunday i

Karangasem, Indonesia: A volcano with a deadly history continued to erupt Tuesday on Bali, one of the world’s most popular resort islands, spitting ash 4,000 metres high and stranding tens of thousands of tourists for a second day. Lava was welling in its crater, but it remained unclear how bad the