Paris:  An attacker stormed an American-owned industrial chemical plant near Lyon, France, on Friday, decapitated one person and tried unsuccessfully to blow up the factory, in what the French authorities said was a terrorist attack. President Francois Hollande said the attacker had been arrested and identified. The interior minister, BernardRead More

Beirut:  Terrorists attacked sites in France, Tunisia and Kuwait on Friday, leaving a bloody toll on three continents and prompting fresh concerns about spreading jihadi influences. In France, attackers stormed a U.S.-owned industrial chemical plant near Lyon, decapitated one person and tried unsuccessfully to blow up the factory, in whatRead More

Berlin:  Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II visited a former Nazi concentration camp for the first time during a state visit to Germany, meeting Holocaust survivors and British veterans who helped liberate the site 70 years ago. The trip to Bergen-Belsen in northwestern Germany by the 89-year-old queen – accompanied by herRead More

Paris, France:  French President Francois Hollande announced he was raising the security level to “attack” – the highest possible – in the region in which a gas factory was assaulted earlier today. A stern Hollande said the “attack” level would be maintained in the region of Rhone-Alpes for three daysRead More

Washington:  US President Barack Obama has been briefed on the attack at a US gas company in France, a senior administration official said today, providing no further details. A severed head covered in Arabic writing was found at the company in southeastern France, police sources and French media said. TheRead More

United Nations, United States:  Elections in Burundi should be postponed, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said today, after opposition parties announced they were boycotting the upcoming polls. The central African nation has been plunged into violent turmoil since April when the president launched a drive to serve a third consecutiveRead More

Geneva:  A United Nations envoy will hold talks in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in the coming days on a draft peace proposal for Yemen with the aim of reaching a “preliminary agreement” with Houthi fighters, a UN spokesman said today. More than 2,800 people have been killed in Yemen duringRead More

Tunis:  At least 27 people, including foreign tourists, were killed when at least one gunman opened fire on a Tunisian beachside hotel in the popular resort of Sousse on Friday, an interior ministry spokesman said. Police were still clearing the area around the Imperial Marhaba hotel and the body ofRead More

New Delhi: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday refused to comment over his alleged audio tape. Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh had earlier released an audio tape on his social media account, accusing Chouhan of seeking favours from BJP leader Rajesh Chaudhary in lieu of a betterRead More

New Delhi, June 26:- The CBI today told a Delhi court that no fresh FIR has been lodged against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, who has been given clean chit in a 1984 anti-Sikh violence case, relating to allegations of influencing witness and money laundering. CBI’s reply came while responding toRead More