Seoul, March 23 Five South Korean tourists were injured in a terror attack outside Britain’s Parliament, Seoul’s foreign ministry said on Thursday. The tourists—four women and a man in their 50s or 60s—were knocked to the ground by people trying to flee as an assailant mowed down pedestrians in aRead More

Geneva, March 23 About 600,000 people remain in the areas of west Mosul held by the Islamic State group, including 400,000 who are “trapped” in the Old City under siege-like conditions, the UN said on Thursday. “They are desperate for food. They are panicked,” Bruno Geddo, who represents the UNRead More

Washington, March 23 US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said that Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi will be killed as nearly all of his deputies are now dead and it is “only a matter of time” that he meets the same fate. “Nearly all of Abu BakrRead More

Canberra, March 23 Australia rejected 500 Syrian refugees on security grounds during more than a year of vetting while accepting 12,000 eligible for resettlement from Middle Eastern camps, an official said on Thursday. Immigration and Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton said the deadly rampage near Britain’s Parliament on Wednesday, inRead More

London,  A woman was killed and others were being treated for “catastrophic” injuries in a “terrorist attack” near the British parliament on Wednesday. A policeman was stabbed inside the perimeter of the parliament building on Wednesday, an assailant was shot outside. In a related incident, the BBC reported a largeRead More

Washington, March 22 Vowing to increase pressure on the Islamic State, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday said IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death is imminent as US-backed forces close in on jihadists in Syria and Iraq. “Nearly all of Baghdadi’s deputies are now dead, including the mastermindRead More

Islamabad, March 22 Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said former dictator Pervez Musharraf had offered him a “secret deal” to return to the country from exile in Saudi Arabia to form a joint government in 2008. At a meeting of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz parliamentary committee yesterday, SharifRead More

BRUSSELS, March 22 Belgium marked the first anniversary of bomb attacks that killed 32 people with remembrance ceremonies, a new memorial and poignant reflections from those who lost partners but survived. “Many times I ask myself ‘What if?’” said German Lars Waetzmann, who lost his wife Jennifer when two youngRead More

Copenhagen: A group of Turkish military officers based in Norway who had refused to return home after the failed July 15 coup attempt, were granted political asylum on Wednesday in the country. “I can confirm they have gotten political asylum in Norway. We are talking about a number of officers,Read More

Brussels: The European Union’s chief negotiator for the upcoming negotiations with Britain on leaving the bloc has warned that there will be “serious consequences for everyone” if the two sides fail to clinch a deal within the two years of talks. EU negotiator Michel Barnier said on Wednesday there couldRead More