Kiev, Ukraine and Russia stood on the verge today of resolving their latest gas war in time to keep the war-scarred nation and EU clients warm through the winter months. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had reached a price deal at high-stakes talks inRead More

Baghdad: Iraqi authorities have executed at least 60 people so far in 2014, a United Nations report said on Sunday, expressing concern that “irreversible miscarriages of justice” were taking place in some death penalty cases. Nickolay Mladenov, the UN special envoy to Iraq, urged the Iraqi government to reconsider itsRead More

London: Nobel Peace Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai will be at the heart of a choir performance here next week which will acclaim her extraordinary story. ‘Malala/ A Child of Our Time’, composed by James McCarthy and written by Pakistani novelist Bina Shah will be performed here on October 28, Barbican Centre saidRead More

London: People found guilty of Internet “trolling” in Britain could be jailed for up to two years under government proposals outlined on Sunday, following a number of high-profile cases of abusive and threatening behaviour on Twitter. Justice Secretary Chris Grayling told the Mail today newspaper: “This is a law toRead More

Baghdad: A suicide bomber detonated explosives at a Shiite mosque in western Baghdad Sunday, killing at least 18 people, security and medical officials said. The blast in the Harthiyah area, which also wounded at least 30 people, is the latest in a string of bombings in the Iraqi capital thatRead More

Jerusalem: An Israeli hospital says it has treated the daughter of Hamas’ top leader in the Gaza Strip weeks after a brutal war between Israel and the Islamic militant group. Avi Shushan, a spokesman for Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, said the daughter of Ismail Haniyeh was hospitalized for “a numberRead More

Paris: France’s government is drawing up a new set of rules for theatres after Paris Opera ejected woman for wearing a veil during a performance, the institution’s deputy director said Sunday. The incident took place when a veiled woman was spotted on the front row of a performance of LaRead More

Galveston (US): A cruise ship carrying a Dallas health care worker who was being monitored for Ebola returned to port Sunday after an eventful seven-day trip in which passengers had their vacations briefly disrupted with an infectious disease scare. A lab supervisor who handled a specimen from a Liberian manRead More

Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has hit out at the opposition for “working” with the pro-LTTE Tamil diaspora in a bid to oust him. “They (opposition) are working with foreign forces to oust me. They have gone and met them in Europe. They have promised action to fulfil pro-LTTERead More

Karachi,In a fresh rant against India, Pakistan People’s Party chief Bilawal Bhutto vowed to wrest Kashmir from India. “When I raise Kashmir, the entire Hindustan screams. They know when a Bhutto speaks, they (Indians) have no answer,” the 26-year-old Bhutto scion said during his first public rally here on Saturday.Read More