KUWAIT: Kuwait’s interior ministry has said it had detained amongst others the owner of a vehicle which a suicide bomber used to get to a Shi’ite Muslim mosque where he blew himself up, killing 27 and wounding 200 people mid-prayer. Militant group Islamic State claimed responsibility for the country’s worstRead More

BAGHDAD: Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said today that Iraqi forces made an “unauthorised” withdrawal from Ramadi last month, leading to the Islamic State group’s takeover of the Anbar provincial capital. “The withdrawal of the forces from Ramadi was unauthorised – the orders were the opposite. The forces had to resist,Read More

PARIS: French police interrogated a suspected Islamist today as they tried to piece together an attack in which the man put his boss’s severed head on display in the second jihadist attack to hit France in six months. Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who cut short an official trip to SouthRead More

DUBAI: Kuwait has detained the owner of the vehicle that took a suicide bomber to a Shi’ite Muslim mosque where he detonated explosives, killing 27 people, state media reported today. The interior ministry said it was now looking for the driver of the Japanese-made car, who left the mosque immediatelyRead More

ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey will never allow the establishment of a Kurdish state in Syria after major gains by Kurdish fighters. In a strong-worded warning late on Friday, Erdogan accused the Kurds of ethnically cleaning other communities from land they have taken after pushing backRead More

LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday warned the country to prepare for the fact that “many” of those killed in the attack on a Tunisian beach resort were British. Tunisian authorities have so far identified eight Britons among the 38 killed on Friday, making it the biggest loss ofRead More

VIENNA: US Secretary of State John Kerry and Iran’s foreign minister both warned today of “hard work” ahead as they sought to seal a historic deal after almost two years of intense diplomatic effort. “We’ve a lot of hard work to do. There are some very tough issues, and IRead More

NEW DELHI: Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over Lalitgate, Congress today accused him of following “Raje dharma” and “not rajya dharma” by shielding Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj. “The Prime Minister should follow ‘rajya dharma’ and not ‘Raje dharma’ or ‘LalitRead More

NAGPUR: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari was all praise for the rich cultural heritage, art and literature of West Bengal and Maharashtra which contributed a lot to the post and pre-Independence era. “A marked influence of Western concepts over younger generation is posing a challenge to conserving our culture,” said MrRead More

KOLKATA: Stating that people have the final say in a democracy, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said that her party Trinamool Congress would win next year’s Assembly election riding on the development work done in the last four years. “In a democracy, people have the final say. OurRead More