London, The attacker who killed three people near Parliament in London before being shot dead was named on Thursday as a 52-year-old British-born man, Khalid Masood, who was once investigated by MI5 intelligence officers over concerns about violent extremism. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement issuedRead More

London/Cairo, March 23 Islamic State was responsible for an attack outside Britain’s parliament which left four people dead, the group’s Amaq news agency said on Thursday, even as police arrested seven people in the investigation into a lone-wolf attacker who also injured 40. The attacker was shot dead by policeRead More

Washington, March 23 US President Donald Trump’s son has criticised London Mayor Sadiq Khan in the immediate aftermath of an attack in the city that killed five and wounded about 40 on the grounds of the British Parliament, a media report said. “You have to be kidding me?!” Donald TrumpRead More

Brussels, March 23 Belgian police arrested a man on Thursday after he tried to drive into a crowd at high-speed in a shopping area in the port city of Antwerp, a police chief said. The man was of north African origin and used a car with French registration plates, AntwerpRead More

WASHINGTON, March 23 US President Donald Trump was to make a final push on Thursday to get the support needed to begin dismantling Obamacare in the House of Representatives but faced signs that enough Republicans might oppose the bill to jeopardise one of his top legislative priorities. The effort isRead More

Seoul, March 23 Five South Korean tourists were injured in a terror attack outside Britain’s Parliament, Seoul’s foreign ministry said on Thursday. The tourists—four women and a man in their 50s or 60s—were knocked to the ground by people trying to flee as an assailant mowed down pedestrians in aRead More

Geneva, March 23 About 600,000 people remain in the areas of west Mosul held by the Islamic State group, including 400,000 who are “trapped” in the Old City under siege-like conditions, the UN said on Thursday. “They are desperate for food. They are panicked,” Bruno Geddo, who represents the UNRead More

Washington, March 23 US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said that Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi will be killed as nearly all of his deputies are now dead and it is “only a matter of time” that he meets the same fate. “Nearly all of Abu BakrRead More

Canberra, March 23 Australia rejected 500 Syrian refugees on security grounds during more than a year of vetting while accepting 12,000 eligible for resettlement from Middle Eastern camps, an official said on Thursday. Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton said the deadly rampage near Britain’s Parliament on Wednesday, inRead More

London,  A woman was killed and others were being treated for “catastrophic” injuries in a “terrorist attack” near the British parliament on Wednesday. A policeman was stabbed inside the perimeter of the parliament building on Wednesday, an assailant was shot outside. In a related incident, the BBC reported a largeRead More