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

Moscow: Russian air strikes that accidentally killed three Turkish soldiers in Syria were launched based on coordinates provided to Russia by the Turkish military, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. The Turkish military has said the “friendly fire” incident occurred during an operation against Islamic State, highlighting the riskRead More

Paris: Four people have been arrested in and around Montpellier, southern France, on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, police and justice sources said on Friday. Those in custody included a 22 year-old man and his 16 year-old girlfriend, both known to authorities for connections with radical Islam, after authoritiesRead More

Kabul: Presidents Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan and Donald Trump of the US discussed over phone the war against terrorism, the Afghan presidential palace said on Friday. The two leaders on Thursday night also discussed the security situation in Afghanistan and economic affairs, Xinhua news agency quoted the palace as saying.Read More

Washington: Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, the mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks, described former US president Barack Obama as the “head of the snake” and said America paid a heavy price because of its own fault. In an 18-page letter to Obama, he said the 9/11 attacks were a direct resultRead More

Los Angeles: A 73-year-old woman has separated from her husband of over 20 years after he voiced support for Donald Trump in the run-up to the US presidential polls. Gayle McCormick, a retired California prison guard, said she was shocked last year when her husband Bill McCormick, 77, mentioned duringRead More

Brussels: U.S. President Donald Trump will meet other NATO leaders in Brussels on May 25, the Belgian government said on Thursday, although the alliance said the date was still undecided. Prime Minister Charles Michel said on Twitter late on Wednesday: “Very pleased to welcome my colleagues for the next NATORead More

Washington: Donald Trump has written to Chinese President Xi Jinping that he looks forward to forging a “constructive relationship” that benefits both countries, days after the US President accused Beijing of unfair trade practices, currency manipulation and military buildup in the South China Sea. Trump wrote the letter to PresidentRead More

Beijing: India can increase its “military pressure” on Pakistan using the alibi of “counterterrorism crusade” that may bring “other players” in the region, China’s official media warned today, justifying Beijing’s latest block on a proposed UN ban on JeM chief Massood Azhar. “India has its own reasons to have listedRead More

Berlin: German police in overnight raids arrested an Algerian and a Nigerian man suspected of planning an Islamist attack, authorities said today. More than 450 officers took part in the mass raids targeting 12 locations, mostly in the central city of Goettingen in Lower Saxony state, they said. Police investigatingRead More