SINGAPORE:  Singapore has the world's "most powerful" passport, according to a global ranking topped for the first time by an Asian country with India figuring at 75th position, three notches better than its previous ranking. According to the 'Global Passport Power Rank 2017' by global financial

Los Angeles: Actress Heather Lind says former US President George H.W. Bush groped her from his wheelchair at a screening of a film. Lind, who starred in “Turn: Washington’s Spies”, detailed her accusations in a lengthy Instagram post on Tuesday. She said she was “disturbed” after seeing a photog

SEOUL:  South Korea, Japan and the US on Tuesday began a joint missile warning exercise, which would help bolster their ability to track and detect missiles in the event of attacks by North Korea. The two-day trilateral manoeuver began in waters off the South Korean and Japanese coasts, with four

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday arrived in Pakistan on a whirlwind visit to normalise bilateral ties strained after President Donald Trump accused the country of providing safe havens to terrorist groups. Mr. Tillerson’s crucial visit to Islamabad comes days after he made a major p

COX’S BAZAR: Queen Rania of Jordan visited Rohingya refugee camps in Ukhia and Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh on Monday. As a board member of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and an advocate of the work of UN humanitarian agencies, Queen Rania made the trip to highlight the urgent need for gre

Bangladesh on Monday sent a high-level delegation to Myanmar for talks on the deepening Rohingya crisis as Dhaka sought to increase pressure on Naypyidaw to take back 600,000 members of the minority Muslim community who have fled Rakhine state to escape persecution. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan

Texas: To get hurricane aid in the city of Dickinson, one has to take a pledge not to boycott Israel. The law, known as the Anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions) bill, got signed by Republican Governor Greg Abbott in May. “Anti-Israel policies are anti-Texas policies, and we will not tol

Maiduguri (Nigeria): Three female suicide bombers killed 13 people and wounded 16 in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, security sources said. The first bomber detonated her explosive belt around 9:45 pm (local time) yesterday in front of a small restaurant in the capital of Borno state “when pe

Kabul [Afghanistan]: The death toll from suicide bomb attacks on two mosques in Afghanistan has risen to at least 89 people. A RadioFreeEuropeRadioLiberty web site report said the two attacks took place yesterday on a Shi’ite mosque in Kabul and on a Sunni mosque in the central Afghan province of

Beijing: A professor who is close to the Chinese government said that China can wage a war against North Korea. According to the news published in Express, Professor of International Relations at Renmin University, Chong Sho-Hu said that Chinese President, Xi Jinping is irritated with the behavio

LAHORE: A Pakistani journalist who was allegedly kidnapped two years ago while pursuing the case of an Indian engineer jailed in Peshawar on espionage charges has been rescued, officials said. Zeenat Shahzadi, a 26-year-old reporter of Daily Nai Khaber and Metro News TV channel, was allegedly kid

United Nations: Nearly 590,00 Rohingya refugees have been admitted to camps in Bangladesh and 320,00 refugee children among them are threatened by water-borne diseases and desperate living conditions, a UN spokesman said Friday. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) repor

Baloch separatists are suspected to be behind two grenade attacks Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province that injured at least 38 people on Thursday. The attacks targeted eateries in Gwadar and Mastung on Thursday evening. The attacks are likely to raise concern about security for the Pakista

U.S. regulators on Wednesday approved a second gene therapy for a blood cancer, a one-time, custom-made treatment for aggressive lymphoma in adults. The Food and Drug Administration allowed sales of the treatment from Kite Pharma. It uses the same technology, called CAR-T, as the first gene thera

Indio (US): A trucker charged with killing 13 people after a Southern California tour bus rear-ended his big-rig on a freeway last year was arrested in Georgia. Bruce Guilford, 51, of Georgia was taken into custody by a US Marshals Service fugitive task force, the Riverside County district attorn

Mumbai attack mastermind and banned Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed’s house arrest was on Thursday extended for another 30 days by a Judicial Review Board of Pakistan’s Punjab province. However, the board refused to allow the same in the detention of his four aides. The 30-day detention will

Pakistan's ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter and son-in-law were indicted today by an anti-graft court in a corruption case related to the Avenfield property in London. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had registered three cases of corruption and money laundering against 67

The third iteration of US President Donald Trump’s travel ban has been halted by two judges before it was to go into effect, with one citing his past remarks on Muslims to rule the intent of the order was discriminatory. Hawaii judge Derrick K Watson ordered the first injunction on Tuesday, stayi