Ottawa, Canadians returned to the reopened grounds of their Parliament building on Saturday, three days after a homegrown radical rushed in armed with a rifle after killing a soldier in the second domestic attack in a week on the country’s military. The grounds of the hilltop gothic building, whose clockRead More

Sixteen workers were killed after a coal mine collapsed in China’s far western region of Xinjiang, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday, highlighting the poor safety standards in the world’s biggest coal producing country. The accident occurred in the regional capital of Urumqi on Friday night when 33Read More

Newark, An Indian man who admitted that he groped a sleeping woman aboard a flight from Houston to New Jersey has been sentenced to eight months in prison. Devender Singh, a 62-year-old Indian national who lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, pleaded guilty last month. Judge Stanley Chesler also sentenced SinghRead More

Kiev/Ukraine :- Russian President Vladimir Putin lashed out at the United States on Friday, accusing Washington of provoking armed conflicts and undermining global security in a quest to lord its power over the rest of the world. In a 40-minute speech that mixed harsh criticism with veiled warnings against trying to oust the Russian bear from its role asRead More

London, United Kingdom: The British minister of state responsible for relations with India, Hugo Swire MP, has written to the NUJ’s general secretary to reject calls for further investigations of possible UKinvolvement in the Indian operation at Sri Harmandir Sahib, Amritsar 1984. The letter from Hugo Swire MP states: “It is the BritishRead More

EL ALAMEIN, Egypt — Two attacks on Egyptian military positions in the Sinai Peninsula on Friday killed at least 31 soldiers, according to security officials and the state news media. The first attack killed at least 28 soldiers, making it the deadliest assault on the Egyptian military in many yearsRead More

London: Britain`s newspapers turned on the European Union on Saturday after it demanded 2.1 billion euro ($2.6 billion) in backdated charges, but many questioned why furious Prime Minister David Cameron seemed so shocked by the claim. “One step nearer the EU exit — Cameron goes to war on £1.7 BILLIONRead More

A Palestinian-American teenager was killed during clashes with the Israeli military on Friday amid heightened tensions in Jerusalem and the West Bank. A relative identified the teen as 14-year-old Orwah Hammad and said he was born in New Orleans and came to the West Bank when he was six. Hammad’sRead More

Five Lebanese army troops and six Islamist gunmen were wounded in a clash in a historic area of the northern city of Tripoli, a security official has said. “The number of wounded soldiers has risen to five,” said the official yesterday, who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity. “SixRead More

New Delhi, Reaching out to media, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday lauded its role in spreading awareness about his pet ‘Clean India’ campaign, saying it has helped remove the perception that government is responsible for everything. At his first interaction with the media in Delhi after becoming the Prime MinisterRead More