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WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for a cessation of hostilities in Yemen and said UN-led negotiations to end the civil war should begin next month. In a statement, Pompeo…

Islamabad: Talking tough, Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan told hardliners not to “confront the State” and refrain from vandalism after the Supreme Court acquitted a Christian woman sentenced to death for committing…

Mumbai/Ankara: Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed by ‘strangulation’ as soon as he entered consulate as part of premeditated killing, a Turkish prosecutor said. Khashoggi’s body was ‘cut into pieces’ after the…

Colombo : Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena Thursday lifted the suspension of parliament and convened a meeting of the legislature on Monday, November 5, amid the current political deadlock in the country…

JAKARTA: Indonesian investigators said they were homing in on the black box from a crashed jetliner after locating its “pings” , two days after the jet crashed shortly after take-off with 189…

Kabul: An Afghan official says an Army helicopter carrying senior officials has crashed in bad weather in the western Farah province, killing all 25 on board. Naser Mehdi, a spokesman for the…

Washington: President Donald Trump’s decision to bring an executive order to end the right to the US citizenship for children born in the US to non-citizens has invited widespread criticism, even from…

Jakarta: The smashed fuselage of a crashed Indonesian jetliner may have been found, the country’s military chief said Wednesday, two days after the deadly accident feared to have killed 189 people. Using…

United Nation : United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, has called for international experts to be involved in an independent investigation into the murder of prominent Saudi dissident journalist…

Dhaka : Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed to start returning Rohingya refugees in November, less than a week after UN investigators warned that a genocide against the Muslim minority was still ongoing. More…