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More than 250 people have been injured, five of them seriously, after part of a wooden promenade collapsed at a music festival in Spain, local officials said Monday.The seafront platform, which was 30 metres (98 feet) long by 10 metres…

Iran unveiled a next generation short-range ballistic missile on Monday and vowed to further boost its capabilities, Iranian media said, at a time of rising tensions with the United States.State broadcaster IRIB said the new Fateh Mobin…

MUMBAI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he would be re-elected with an even bigger majority in parliament in 2019, dismissing opposition attempts to rouse opinion against his government for failing to deliver on promises of swift…

ISLAMABAD: Alexey Dedov, Russian ambassador to Pakistan meets to be prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan on Thursday at his Bani Gala house, his major motivation was to discuss the improvisation steps for enhancing relationship between…

RIYADH: Days long Eid holidays are a traditional feature in the Saudi culture and everyone outside the Kingdom frantically want their own country to replicate this ‘generosity’ Saudi government bless their citizens with.Like Eids in the…

BEIJING: China’s business and energy ties with Iran do not harm the interests of any other country, the country’s Foreign Ministry said, after US President Donald Trump said companies doing business with Iran would be barred from the United…

Russia warned Friday that if the US followed through with threats to impose further harsh economic sanctions it would be seen as a "declaration of economic war".The warning by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev came after Washington…

GHAZNI: US forces launched airstrikes Friday to counter a major Taliban assault on an Afghan provincial capital, where terrified residents cowered in their homes amid explosions and gunfire as security forces fought to beat the insurgents…

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday outlined an aggressive plan for creating a sixth branch of the US military by 2020 – a Space Force to better confront emerging security threats – but the proposal will need…

CAIRO: A group of Egyptian students has designed a vehicle they say will battle rising energy prices and promote clean energy by running on nothing but air.The undergraduate students, who built the vehicle as part of their graduation…

SANAA: An attack on a bus carrying children in rebel-held northern Yemen on Thursday left dozens of people dead or wounded, the International Committee of the Red Cross said."Following an attack this morning on a bus driving children in…

The death toll from a devastating earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok jumped to 319 Thursday, as strong aftershocks triggered panic among traumatised survivors waiting for aid in the worst-hit regions.The shallow 6.9-magnitude…

Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan: Eight civilians, including women and children, were killed in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday when a roadside bomb apparently targeting security forces ripped through the vehicle in which they were travelling,…

ISLAMABAD:  China is exploring building a spur from Pakistan’s territory once the multi-country TAPI natural gas pipeline project begins operating, a Pakistani official said, with the financial close of the project’s first phase expected…

Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi wanted to give prime ministership to Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, a suggestion that Nehru rejected, Indian Express quoted Dalai Lama as saying on Wednesday.Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the…

In apparent escalation of a rift between Saudi Arabia and Canada on Monday evening, Riyadh suspended scholarships for Saudi students in Canada and said it would relocate thousands of students studying there to other countries, state media…

The first set of US sanctions against Iran that had been eased under the landmark nuclear accord went back into effect early Tuesday under an executive order signed by President Donald Trump, targeting financial transactions that involve US…

MATARAM: Terrified holidaymakers rushed for boats and planes to leave Indonesia’s Lombok island Tuesday after it suffered a second deadly quake within a week, as rescuers scrambled to reach remote areas where survivors are in urgent need of…

Asian stocks rose on Monday after China’s central bank took steps to try to drag the yuan away from 14-month lows, but the tit-for-tat conflict over Sino-US trade hung heavily on markets.The People’s Bank of China late on Friday raised…

PEMENANG: Rescuers used diggers and heavy machinery to clear debris and search for survivors on Monday after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake killed at least 98 people on Indonesia’s resort island of Lombok, prompting an exodus of tourists. The…

Bangladesh police said Monday they arrested a prize-winning photographer for “provocative comments” in an Al Jazeera interview about protests by teenagers that have convulsed the country for over a week.Over the weekend, a heavy-handed…

A Palestinian shot by Israeli forces on the Gaza border four months ago has died, the health ministry in the coastal enclave has said.Ahmed al-Ayeda, 17, was shot on March 30 — the first day of months of protests and clashes along…

Forty-four people were shot across the Midwestern US city of Chicago Sunday, US media reported, with five killed in a wave of violence police branded "totally unacceptable." Chicago Police chief of patrol Fred Waller told a press…

KABUL: At least 51 Taliban insurgents were killed and six were injured during an ongoing operation by Afghan forces in eastern Kunar province.The sixth phase of Qahr Silab-2 operation kicked off on Friday night and is currently being…

MOSCOW: Moscow on Saturday said 18 people were killed when a helicopter crashed on its way to an oil station in northern Siberia in the early hours of the morning.The Russian Transport Ministry said the Mi-8 helicopter carrying three…

ISLAMABAD: After expiry of the tax amnesty scheme that had failed to lure owners of offshore assets abroad in a big way, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has decided to dispatch tax notices to 600-700 individuals having rental income from…

SINGAPORE: China wants to stage joint military exercises with Southeast Asian nations in disputed waters, according to a draft document, but insists other countries should be excluded in what analysts say is a bid to diminish US influence.…

SRINAGAR: Indian troops on Friday martyred two more youth in Sopore district of occupied Kashmir, according to a report of Kashmir Media Service.The troops killed the youth during a cordon and search operation in the Drusoo area of…

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations human rights chief has defended the world body's June 14 human rights report on occupied Kashmir that accused Indian troops of having used excessive force to kill and wound civilians since 2016 and called…

Asian stocks inched on Friday following a tech-led rise on Wall Street, although the latest exchange of trade threats between Beijing and Washington capped gains and drove safehaven flows to the dollar, which hovered near a two-week high.…

Israel reimposed a blockade of fuel supplies to Gaza on Thursday in response to a resurgence of the flow of fire kites across the border, Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said.Lieberman said the crackdown was in response to…

Afghan police in Kabul Thursday recovered the bodies of three foreign nationals who they said had been abducted and killed, in the latest incident targeting foreigners in the war-torn capital."At this stage we think it is a terrorist…

Planet-warming greenhouse gases surged to new highs as abnormally hot temperatures swept the globe and ice melted at record levels in the Arctic last year due to climate change, a major US report said Wednesday.The annual State of the…

New Zealand Prime Minister and new mum Jacinda Ardern, only the second world leader to give birth while in office, resumed her duties on Thursday, ending six weeks of maternity leave.The 38-year-old has opted to work from home in…

Marsha Kirschbaum used 27 photos – all captured on a single night, August 12 – to create this composite of the 2016 Perseid meteor shower.Tonight – August 9, 2018 – it’s time to start watching the Perseid meteor shower, which should be…

COTABATO: Ten people, including troops and civilians, were killed when a bomb in a van blew up at an army checkpoint in the southern Philippines Tuesday. The powerful explosion, claimed by the Daesh group, occurred after soldiers and…

Donald Trump´s former campaign chief Paul Manafort on Tuesday becomes the first member of the president´s election team to face trial on charges stemming from the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 vote.Manafort, 69, has…

JALALABAD: Gunmen stormed a government building after multiple explosions in a continuing attack in Jalalabad on Tuesday, the latest in a series in the eastern Afghan city.At least two blasts were heard before the attackers entered the…

LONDON: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday the US withdrawal from the nuclear deal was “illegal”, and said the ball was “in Europe’s court” in terms of maintaining ties with Tehran.“The Islamic Republic has never sought…

HERAT: A roadside bomb hit a Kabul-bound passenger bus in restive western Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing a minimum of eight folks and wounding round 40, principally ladies and kids, officers stated."It was a bomb planted by the Taliban…

TOKYO: Japanese Economy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said on Tuesday that the United States and Japan will hold their first bilateral trade talks in Washington on Aug. 9.US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe…

The prototype of the ground effect vehicles “Orlan”, armed with cruise missiles, is planned to be developed in Russia as part of the state armament programme for the period until 2027, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov told…

JAKARTA, INDONESIA — A powerful and shallow earthquake early Sunday killed not less than 14 folks and injured greater than 160 on Indonesia’s Lombok island, a well-liked tourist destination subsequent to Bali, officers stated. The quake…

1000's extra fled their properties after wildfires surged close to a small lake town in Northern California whereas a deadly blaze farther north slowed barely as crews stretched to their limits throughout the state combat flames which have…

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Friday hailed roaring US financial progress as a “miracle,” and mentioned the quickest growth in nearly 4 years was a vindication of his financial agenda.With the scale of the American financial…

TOKYO: The Japanese government congratulated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan and his political party on victory in the general election 2018.According to the local media, the Japanese government hopes that relations…

The US Dollar pared earlier gains Friday in a classic "Buy the Rumour, Sell the Fact" response to second-quarter GDP numbers that showed economic growth picking up sharply, although analysts are growing doubtful about the prospect of…

Nauseating footage shows surgeons struggling to remove a 8.04lb (3.65kg) hairball from a girl's stomach. The mass of hair, which measured 35x13cm (13.7x5.1 inches), took up nearly all of the unnamed girl's organ, leaving little room for…

ATHENS: Greece´s government said on Thursday there were "serious" indications the fire in which most of the 82 people who perished in the country´s worst ever wildfires died may have been started deliberately."A serious piece of…

WASHINGTON: The United States is expected to see an exceptional surge in economic growth in the second quarter that President Donald Trump can use to trumpet the success of his economic agenda.But the unusual result, which economists…