Istanbul: President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that the final goal of a Turkish military incursion into Syria was not just to retake the city of al-Bab from Islamic State, but to cleanse a border region including Raqqa of the jihadists. “The ultimate goal is to cleanse a 5,000-square-km area,”Read More

Oroville: Residents below the tallest dam in the United States, near Oroville in Northern California, were urgently ordered to evacuate on Sunday after a spillway appeared for a time to be in danger of imminent collapse. The abrupt evacuation orders came as authorities said that a crumbling auxiliary spillway onRead More

Washington: A United Airlines pilot was taken off from a San Francisco-bound flight after she told passengers over the intercom that US President Donald Trump is a liar. The airline on Sunday declined to identify the pilot. As per The Washington Post, the pilot, Saturday afternoon, boarded a flight atRead More

Pyongyang: In an implicit challenge to President Donald Trump, North Korea appeared to fire a ballistic missile today in what would be its first such test of the year. After receiving word of the launch, Trump stood at his south Florida estate with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who calledRead More

Melbourne: A Hijab-clad Muslim woman and her friends in New Zealand were targets of foul-mouthed racist comments at a rest stop with a woman yelling expletives and throwing beer cans at them. Mehpara Khan, 28, a communications consultant, and her four friends were returning to Auckland from a road tripRead More

Washington: The United States is committed to the security of its allies in the Pacific region and will bolster its allies there against any hostile actions from North Korea, a White House official said on Sunday. “The message is that we are going to reinforce and strengthen our vital alliancesRead More

Chennai, In growing support for Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam, five more AIADMK MPs on Sunday joined his camp, taking the number of Parliamentarians in his favour to ten. Four Lok Sabha MPs — Jaisingh Thiyagaraj Natterjee (Tuticorin), Senguttuvan (Vellore), R.P. Marutharaja (Perambalur) and S. Rajendran (Villupuram) met PanneerselvamRead More

Anantnag, Four unidentified militants, two Army jawans and a civilian were killed during a gunfight in Frisal area of Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday morning. Three jawans were also injured during the gunfight. A youth was killed and 15 people were injured in clashes that followed theRead More

Islamabad: Pakistan’s Senate Deputy Chairman and leader of one of the largest Islamic parties was denied a US visa, leading to the cancellation of a two-member delegation’s planned visit to New York to attend a meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union at the UN headquarters. Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, the deputyRead More

Washington, President Donald Trump has said he is considering signing a “brand new” executive order by next week temporarily barring refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the country, a day after a US court refused to reinstate his controversial travel ban. “We will win that battle. TheRead More