Riyadh: A Pakistani national was on Thursday beheaded in Saudi Arabia for smuggling large quantity of heroin into the country, the second execution of a citizen from the South Asian nation in three weeks. Izzat Khan Tor Qul was executed in Jeddah Governorate as he smuggled a large quantity ofRead More

United Nations: The United States is open to a new UN resolution on Gaza but only if it contributes to sustaining the Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire, the US envoy to the United Nations said. Ambassador Samantha Power said that a resolution must “do no harm” to the ceasefire that has been holdingRead More

Kuala Lumpur: A preliminary report on the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over the war-torn eastern Ukraine that killed all 298 people onboard would be released on September 9. The Dutch Safety Board (OVV) will issue the preliminary report on the investigation into the downing of MH17 on SeptemberRead More

London: British Prime minister David Cameron on Thursday backed air strikes against the terror group ISIS or Islamic State and said that Syrian President Bashar Assad was part of the problem rather then the solution. As per reports, he also said that permission was not needed from Assad to bombRead More

New York: UN’s top peacekeeping official has came out in defence of India’s Lt Gen Iqbal Singh Singha, who has come in for strong criticism from the Philippines military over his handling of operations in Syria after UN troops had come under attack from rebel forces. Filipino media reports saidRead More

Newport/Donetsk: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and the main pro-Russian rebel leader said they would both order ceasefires on Friday, provided that an agreement is signed on a new peace plan to end the five-month war in Ukraine`s east. The breakthrough came after a week in which the pro-Moscow separatists scoredRead More

Libiya, Eleven planes missing from a Libya airport are raising fears that militants who stole the jetliners could use them in terror attacks to mark the 9/11 anniversary. Intelligence agencies have warned the jets could be used in attacks in North Africa, and said one or more of the planesRead More

Islamabad , At least 40 people were killed and dozens others injured in separate accidents triggered off by torrential rains in Pakistan’s Punjab province and Kashmir area Thursday, a media report said. Punjab’s provincial capital of Lahore was the worst-hit area where the heavy downpour killed 35 people and injured many othersRead More

Cape Town, South Africa has bowed to Chinese pressure and declined to grant the Dalai Lama a visa, forcing him to cancel his attendance at a gathering of Nobel Laureates in Cape Town. This was the third time that South Africa has denied a visa to the spiritual leader ofRead More

Jerusalem: The Israeli military attacked a Syrian Army position after a mortar shell fired across the border landed in the northern Golan Heights Thursday afternoon. Initial review of the incident suggested that the shell had most likely been fired by mistake, a result of the civil war in Syria, XinhuaRead More