OFRA: Israeli police began removing settlers and hundreds of supporters on Tuesday from nine houses built illegally on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. Police carried some of the settlers and protesters out of the red-roofed structures in the settlement of Ofra, while others walked out, escortedRead More

Beijing: A senior North Korean diplomat today arrived in China, the first visit since Beijing’s ban on coal imports from its reclusive neighbour and the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s older half-brother in Malaysia. North Korean Vice-Foreign Minister Ri Kil-song who started the five-day visit will metRead More

Tokyo: A 5.6-magnitude earthquake today struck northeastern Japan near the disaster-hit Fukushima nuclear plant but there was no fear of a tsunami, Japanese and US authorities said. The quake struck at a depth of 42.3 kilometres in the Pacific Ocean 34 kilometres east-northeast of the town of Namie, the USRead More

Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday said he would have to call the police back to his war on drugs, nearly a month after suspending the force from all operations in the bloody campaign. Duterte said the recall would not mean all police would return, but some. He didRead More

Columbia: President Donald Trump gives his maiden speech to Congress Tuesday, trying to boost dismal approval ratings and flesh out his promise to help Americans left behind by a changing economy. During a first turbulent month in office, Trump has put homeland security front and center — plotting immigration bans,Read More

Houston, Adam Purinton, the man charged with killing Indian techie Srinivas Kuchibhotla and injuring two others in an apparent hate crime at a pub in Kansas, has made his first court appearance. The US Navy veteran appeared before a court here on Monday. Michelle Durrett from the Johnson County PublicRead More

Washington: A bold Hijab-wearing Muslim ex-White House staffer of Bangladeshi-origin has said she quit her job after US President Donald Trump announced his controversial travel ban, lasting just eight days in the new administration. Rumana Ahmed was hired in 2011 to work at the White House and eventually the NationalRead More

Washington: The United States called on Russia to “immediately” observe the cease-fire in Ukraine, accusing combined Russian-separatist forces of targeting international monitors. “We call on Russia and the separatist forces it backs to immediately observe the cease-fire, withdraw all heavy weapons, and allow full and unfettered access to the OSCERead More

Moscow: Thousands of Russians marched through central Moscow today in memory of slain opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, two years after he was shot dead near the Kremlin. The assassination of the former deputy prime minister on February 27, 2015 was the highest-profile killing of a critic of President Vladimir PutinRead More

Coachella: For the past three decade, Emilio Lopez Bautista has risen before dawn and headed to work in the farm fields of California, earning an honest living, buying a house, and steering clear of trouble. But today, the 66-year-old, who entered the US illegally from Mexico 30 years ago withRead More