Washington/Marietta: Anti-abortion groups rallied at Planned Parenthood clinics in scores of U.S. cities on Saturday to urge Congress and President Donald Trump to strip the health services provider of federal funding. With organizers expecting protests at up to 225 clinics nationwide, Planned Parenthood supporters in turn organized 150 counter-demonstrations atRead More

United Nations: The United States has objected to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres choice of former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad as the body’s new representative to Libya. It was unclear whether the objection, expressed in a statement late on Friday by Nikki Haley, the United States ambassador to theRead More

Washington: Ohio Governor John Kasich postponed eight executions, two weeks after a US federal judge ruled that the state`s lethal injection method might be too painful to be legal, the media reported. Ohio has not been able to put an inmate to death for three years and revealed in courtRead More

Jerusalem: US President Donald Trump does not believe Israeli settlement growth in Palestinian territories is “good for peace”, he told a paper on Friday, in his most direct comments on the matter since inauguration. In the interview published in Hebrew by the Israel Hayom newspaper, Trump also said he wasRead More

Islamabad: At least four mortar shells fired by Iranian forces today landed across the border in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, officials here said. The mortar shells hit Parom area of Panjgur district, senior district official Habibur Rehman said. “The mortars were fired without any justification or provocation. So far weRead More

Sydney: Major energy users on Australia`s east coast shut down on Friday, and residents were asked not to go home and cook or watch television, to ease demand on strained power supplies as an extreme heatwave moved from the desert interior to the coast. Authorities were preparing to temporarily suspendRead More

Washington: More than 12.2 million people have signed up for coverage nationwide this year under the Obama-era health care law even with the uncertainty created by President Donald Trump’s vow to repeal and replace it. A count by The Associated Press shows that many consumers returned to the program despiteRead More

London: A 27-year-old woman has become the first British woman to join an all-female military unit to fight the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group in Syria. Kimberley Taylor left the UK to join the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), the all-female affiliate army of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) of SyrianRead More

Kabul: Kabul today endorsed US general John Nicholson’s call for thousands of additional troops in Afghanistan to stave off a resurgent Taliban, ahead of what is expected to be another intense fighting season. Afghan forces, beset by record casualties, desertions and “ghost soldiers” who do not exist on the payRead More

Berlin: A Hamburg court has upheld an injunction prohibiting a German television comedian from repeating elements of a crude poem he wrote about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Comic Jan Boehmermann recited the poem last year on public television to illustrate something he said wouldn’t be allowed in Germany. HeRead More