Washington: U.S. President Donald Trump is poised to tap a Republican media relations firm owner to oversee his White House communications, according to media reports on Friday. Crossroads Media founder Mike Dubke is expected to be named White House communications director, CNN, NBC and Fox News reported, a move thatRead More

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia performed a second autopsy on the estranged half brother of North Korea’s leader because the first procedure was inconclusive, piling on the intrigue surrounding what appeared to be a well-executed assassination at an airport in Kuala Lumpur, an official said on Saturday. Police arrested a fourth suspect,Read More

United Nations: US supports the two-state solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, America’s top diplomat to the UN has said while indicating that the Trump administration is “thinking out of the box” to bring peace to the region. “First of all, the two-state solution is what we support. Anybody thatRead More

Karachi: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif today ordered the law enforcement agencies to eliminate terrorists with “full force” as the death toll rose to 88 in an Islamic State suicide bombing at a revered Sufi shrine in the Sindh province. The bombing at the Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine in SehwanRead More

Ju-min Park: For Jay Y Lee, the third-generation leader of South Korea’s massive Samsung Group and scion of the country’s wealthiest family, home is now a 6.56 square meter (71 square foot) detention cell with a toilet in the corner behind a partition. He has no shower, only a wash-stand.Read More

Kuala Lumpur: North Korea`s ambassador to Malaysia on Friday said Pyongyang would reject any results of a post-mortem examination carried out by Kuala Lumpur on the body of Kim Jong-Nam, the half brother of the North Korean leader. “The Malaysian side forced the post-mortem without our permission and witnessing. WeRead More

Washington: The U.S. Senate is expected to approve President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday over the objections of Democrats and green groups worried he will gut the agency, as the administration readies executive orders to ease regulation on drillers and miners. Trump’s nominee, OklahomaRead More

Washington: U.S. President Donald Trump is poised to tap a Republican media relations firm owner to oversee his White House communications, according to media reports on Friday. Crossroads Media founder Mike Dubke is expected to be named White House communications director, CNN, NBC and Fox News reported, a move thatRead More

Harare: The wife of Zimbabwe’s 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe says he should run “as a corpse” in next year’s election if he dies before the vote. Grace Mugabe today accused some ruling ZANU-PF party officials of plotting to take over from her husband and said that even if he dies,Read More

Islamabad: In an unusual move, Pakistan Army today handed over a list of 76 “most wanted” terrorists to Afghan embassy officials and demanded “immediate action” against them, amidst a spurt in terror attacks in the country. Pakistan Prime Minister’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz also telephoned Afghan National SecurityRead More