WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has called for an “inclusive and credible” elections process next year in Myanmar, where President Thein Sein was set to hold an unprecedented political summit on Friday (Oct 31) with his rivals. Obama made the comment in telephone talks with Thein Sein, during which theRead More

Malaysia, Two boys, who lost their father in the mysterious disappearance of Flight MH370, on Friday sued the beleaguered Malaysia Airlines and the government for negligence, the first lawsuit filed over the tragedy. Jee Kinson, 13, and Jee Kinland, 11 – sons of Jee Jing Hang, who was on boardRead More

Washington: The United States has urged all sides in Jerusalem to exercise restraint amid spiralling tensions in the holy city, and said it was working with Israelis, Palestinian and Jordanians to try to restore calm. Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday also condemned the shooting of hardline rabbi Yehuda Glick,Read More

New York: Former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson, wanted in India in connection with the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy which claimed over 3,000 lives in one of the world’s most lethal industrial accidents, has died in the US state of Florida aged 92. Anderson, a Brooklyn carpenter’s son who ascendedRead More

Arbil, Iraq: Cloaked in Kurdish flags, thousands of people lined the roads to cheer on a military convoy headed for what was — until recently — an obscure Syrian border town, now the focus of a global war against the militants of Islamic State. The Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga were onRead More

Portland, Maine: President Barack Obama sought to mobilise Democratic voters Thursday in the race for governor in Maine while keeping his distance from the state’s bubbling controversy over its Ebola quarantine policies and the nurse who has defied them. Ebola has emerged as a hot-button issue in the 4 NovemberRead More

Kinshasa – Fourteen people were killed in a machete attack by Ugandan rebels in the Beni region in the restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where nearly 100 civilians have already perished, a non-governmental group said on Thursday. The incursion by the Ugandan rebel group ADF took place overnight inRead More

Norway’s prime minister says her country will send 120 soldiers this year to join the international campaign against Islamic State militants in Iraq and help train local troops there. Another 75 Norwegian soldiers will go to Afghanistan next year. Describing the Islamic extremists’ attacks against civilians and children as “shocking,”Read More

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar: Myanmar’s president held rare talks on Friday with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and more than a dozen of the country’s political and military heavyweights. Suu Kyi, who is constitutionally barred from running for president in next year’s election, has been calling for a meeting with theRead More

New Delhi, A delegation of victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots have urged Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to further increase the amount of compensation given to them. The delegation, led by Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) national vice president Onkar Singh Thapar, met the Home Minister at his residence FridayRead More