Columbia: Donald Trump called a recount of votes being prepared in Wisconsin a scam, insisting Saturday that his presidential win should be respected, not “challenged and abused.” The recount, which was requested by Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who received a minute fraction of the total vote, flew in theRead More

Florida: Juanita Castro, a sister of late Cuban leader Fidel Castro who has lived in Miami for decades, will not attend his funeral, local media reported Saturday. “Given unhealthy rumors that I was headed to Cuba for the funeral, I want to state clearly that I have never returned toRead More

Havana Province: Cuba mourned revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on Sunday as the communist island prepared to say its last goodbyes to the towering giant of its modern history with mass memorials and a four-day funeral procession. After the stunned commotion surrounding Saturday`s announcement that Castro had died at age 90,Read More

Beijing: China’s national observatory on Sunday issued a yellow alert for typhoon Tokage that will bring gales to some southern coastal regions. Tokage, this year’s 25th typhoon, was on the central part of South China Sea at 5 a.m. on Sunday and moving northward at a speed of 5 toRead More

aris: The decisive round of French right-centre parties primary started on Sunday and it will send one of the two conservatives, Francois Fillon and Alain Juppe, into the presidential race. Final opinion polls projected frontrunner Fillon to seize a major lead over veteran Juppe who had been long dominating theRead More

Beirut: Syria regime forces on Sunday seized two new rebel-held districts in Aleppo a day after they retook the largest opposition-controlled neighbourhood in the second city, a monitor said. “The army and its allies retook control of Jabal Badro and Baadeen”, both adjacent to Masaken Hanano which was retaken onRead More

At least 34 civilians were killed Sunday in a flare up of ethnic violence in restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said, following a week of soaring tensions. “The provisional toll is 34 civilians killed,” said local official Joy Bokele, referring to an attack by a Nande ethnicity militiaRead More

Bangkok: Human rights NGO Amnesty International urged Malaysia on Sunday to free a popular political cartoonist who has been arrested over making offensive drawings of Prime Minister Najib Razak. Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, or Zunar as he is also known, was arrested for sedition on Saturday, a day after security forcesRead More

Ajmer: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday paid obeisance at the historic 13th century dargah of sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti in the pilgrim town here. The Chief Minister did ‘jiyarat’ (worship) in Dargah and presented Chaadar on the tomb of the sufi saint in the afternoon.Read More

Jammu: Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Sunday said neither India could take back Pak-occupied-Kashmir nor Pakistan has the power to take this part of Kashmir by going to war, so the solution to the problem lies in dialogue between the two countries. “We cannot take whatRead More