Dubai, January 25 A Bahraini court sentenced 57 men to 15-year jail terms on Monday for rioting in a prison outside the capital Manama last March, the public prosecutor’s office said. Bahraini security forces tear-gassed and beat inmates at Jaw prison on March 8 while trying to quell clashes thatRead More

Yaounde (Cameroon), January 25 Local officials say that four suicide bombers attacked a town in Cameroon’s Far North region near the border with Nigeria, killing at least 28 persons and wounding 65 others. Governor Midjiyawa Bakari said on Monday that two attackers detonated explosives at a market and two othersRead More

Vientiane (Laos), January 25 US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday dismissed Syrian government claims and Opposition complaints as posturing ahead of UN-led peace talks that are supposed to begin this week. Kerry, in Laos after discussing the negotiations with officials in Switzerland and Saudi Arabia last week, saidRead More

Washington, January 24 Pakistan must take effective action against terrorist groups operating from its soil “delegitimising, disrupting and dismantling” terror networks there, US President Barrack Obama said on Sunday. Describing the terror attack on the IAF base in Pathankot as “another example of the excusable terrorism that India has enduredRead More

New York/Washington, A blizzard that has paralysed much of the US East Coast intensified on Saturday, bringing Washington to a standstill and forcing the closure of roads, bridges and tunnels into New York until Sunday morning. In all, there were at least 19 deaths in several states related to the storm.Read More

  Kabul, January 24 Afghanistan’s Taliban demanded the release of political prisoners among a list of conditions that they said on Sunday would need to be met before they consider rejoining peace talks aimed at ending the 15-year war. Taliban forces have stepped up their campaign in the last yearRead More

  Peshawar, January 24 At least four people, among them an Afghan seminary teacher and a child, were injured in a roadside bomb explosion in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said. The remote-controlled blast, triggered through an improvised explosive device, hit the vehicle of Qari Salahuddin, an Afghan nationalRead More

  Islamabad, January 24 The foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India are expected to meet next month, a senior official has said. There was an understanding between the two sides for a meeting in February, but its dates have not been finalised, the official said on Saturday. The January 15Read More

Manama, January 24 India and the Arab League on Sunday vowed to combat terrorism and called for developing a strategy to “eliminate” its sources and extremism, including its funding, as External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj made a strong pitch for delinking religion from terrorism. While addressing the 1st Ministerial MeetingRead More

London, January 24 The 100 government files declassified by the Indian government confirm that Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose did not live in the former Soviet Union in or after 1945, said a UK website set up to chart the last days of the nationalist leader. The Russian government informed theRead More