Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said there remained “a lot left to do” for the forces of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad despite Russian firepower hitting over 30,000 targets in the war-torn country. The Kremlin strongman also admitted that the Russian operation in Syria has exposed unspecified “problems” forRead More

Islamabad: Pakistan’s PPP chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday hit out at Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, accusing him of “damaging” the country’s foreign policy by giving his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi a “certificate of friendship” and over his handling of the Kashmir issue. Addressing a rally in Bagh area ofRead More

London: London’s first Muslim Mayor Sadiq Khan on Tuesday hit out at Donald Trump for signalling that he would exempt him from his proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the US, saying his “ignorant” comments play “into the hands of extremists”. The US presidential hopeful had said in an interviewRead More

Washington: President Barack Obama will travel to Hiroshima this month in the first visit by a sitting American president to the site where the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb. The White House says Obama will visit along with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (shin-zoh ah-bay) during a previously scheduled visitRead More

Tunis: Top diplomats will hold talks in Vienna this month aimed at supporting efforts to end the chaos in Libya, Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said Monday. On a visit to Tunisia, Gentiloni said he had invited Tunis to join foreign ministers from “the most important countries in the regionRead More

Baghdad: Iraqi officials say a suicide bombing in a commercial area northeast of Baghdad the previous evening killed at least 13 civilians. A police officer said on Tuesday that the bomber blew up his explosives-laden minibus shortly before sunset Monday near a bakery and a falafel restaurant in a ShiiteRead More

Charleston: The Citadel military school in South Carolina has denied a request by a newly admitted student to wear a traditional Muslim headscarf. The Citadel said last month it was considering the woman’s request to wear the head covering known as a hijab. But college president retired Lt. Gen JohnRead More

Washington: U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Sunday he is open to raising taxes on the rich, backing off his prior proposal to reduce taxes on all Americans and breaking with one of his party’s core policies dating back to the 1990s. “I am willing to pay more,Read More

Riyadh: Saudi King Salman replaced his long-serving oil minister on Saturday as part of a major government overhaul which comes as the kingdom grapples with a slump in energy revenues. The revamp follows last month’s announcement of an ambitious plan to transform Saudi Arabia’s economy to reduce its dependence onRead More

Washington: Four Indian-Americans, including a couple from the Silicon Valley, have been charged in the US with conspiracy to commit H-1B visa fraud among other offences, federal prosecutors have said. The couple — Sunitha Guntipally, Venkat Guntipally along with two others Pratap “Bob” Kondamoori and Sandhya Ramireddi have been chargedRead More