Beirut: Syria regime forces on Sunday seized two new rebel-held districts in Aleppo a day after they retook the largest opposition-controlled neighbourhood in the second city, a monitor said. “The army and its allies retook control of Jabal Badro and Baadeen”, both adjacent to Masaken Hanano which was retaken onRead More

At least 34 civilians were killed Sunday in a flare up of ethnic violence in restive eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said, following a week of soaring tensions. “The provisional toll is 34 civilians killed,” said local official Joy Bokele, referring to an attack by a Nande ethnicity militiaRead More

Bangkok: Human rights NGO Amnesty International urged Malaysia on Sunday to free a popular political cartoonist who has been arrested over making offensive drawings of Prime Minister Najib Razak. Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, or Zunar as he is also known, was arrested for sedition on Saturday, a day after security forcesRead More

Istanbul: Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, threatened to throw open Turkey’s borders to illegal migrants, after the European Parliament voted to back a freeze in membership talks with Ankara. “Listen to me. If you go any further, then the frontiers will be opened, bear that in mind,” ErdoganRead More

New York/Melbourne: Neil Prakash, Australia’s most senior ISIS recruiter has been arrested in the Middle East, a media report said on Friday, months after the US and Australia said, he was killed in an American air strike in Iraq this year. The New York Times reported that, Prakash had beenRead More

Tehran: At least 31 people were killed in Iran early on Friday when an intercity express was hit by another train while stopped at a station, the provincial governor said. “The bodies of 31 dead have been identified and more than 70 people hospitalised,” Mohammad Reza Khabbaz, governor of SemnanRead More

Teknaf (Myanmar): The brutal gang rape that Habiba and her sister endured is a story that is becoming depressingly familiar among the thousands of Rohingya refugees fleeing to Bangladesh to escape the violence of Myanmar’s soldiers. “They tied both of us to the bed and raped us one by one,”Read More

Japan has told Russia, the deployment of missiles on disputed islands in the Pacific is “deplorable”, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday, ahead of talks aimed at resolving a decades-old territorial spat. The positioning of coastal defence missiles on two of the four islands in contention was reported byRead More

Washington: Donald Trump will have to embrace “unilateralism” against Pakistan as President Barack Obama did when it hunt down Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, a former Pakistani diplomat has said, arguing that USD 33 billion of US funding has failed to change Islamabad’s policy on terrorism. Husain Haqqani, a formerRead More

Singapore: A 29-year-old Indian-origin man has been jailed for over three years for printing fake Singaporean currency notes here, according to a media report. Sasi Kumar Lakshmanan decided to print fake currency notes of SGD 100 and SGD 50. Deputy Public Prosecutor Magdalene Huang said Lakshmanan decided to print someRead More