Tokyo, August 7 Japan has filed a protest to Beijing after the discovery that China installed radar equipment in a gas exploration platform close to disputed waters in the East China Sea, a Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Sunday. Japan fears that the radar, a type commonly found onRead More

Brussels: Belgium’s prime minister announced on Sunday a ‘terror’ probe into a machete attack that wounded two policewomen, in what appeared to be the latest in a string of jihadist attacks in Europe. “We have been informed by federal prosecutors that an investigation has started for attempted terrorist murder… givenRead More

Washington: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump slammed Hillary Clinton as mentally unstable at a campaign rally, seizing on her admission that she “short- circuited” in comments about her private email use at the State Department. “The people of this country don’t want somebody who’s going to short circuit up here,”Read More

Washington: A former top CIA official emphatically endorsed Hillary Clinton for president today, calling Donald Trump an “unwitting agent” of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Mr. Putin played upon Mr. Trump’s vulnerabilities by complimenting him,” wrote former CIA deputy director Michael Morell in a New York Times op-ed. “In the intelligenceRead More

Nairobi: South Sudan’s army on Friday described a UN report alleging its troops carried out ethnically targeted killings and rapes as “baseless”, saying not one victim had lodged a complaint. The UN’s top human rights official on Thursday blamed Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) troops loyal to President Salva KiirRead More

Des Moines: Donald Trump has made a rare admission he was wrong – in claiming he saw a video of a US cash payment going to Iran. On the campaign trail this week, the Republican nominee has been dramatically describing a video that he says shows the US paying offRead More

Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday sought help from the US and Afghan government to ensure safe return of the crew of a Pakistani helicopter that crash-landed in a lawless region of Afghanistan and is being held by the Taliban. An MI-17 helicopter owned by Punjab provincial government was on its wayRead More

Beijing: Chinese officials say a trans-Himalayan railway connecting Tibet with India and Nepal is economically and technically feasible as Beijing looks to make Tibet an economic and cultural hub connecting China with South Asia. “The construction of a railway crossing the Himalayan mountains is now economically and technologically feasible,” ZongRead More

Ankara: Turkey’s ruling party on Friday instructed its local branches and party-led municipalities to purge themselves of suspected supporters of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused by the government of instigating the country’s failed July 15 coup. Gulen has denied involvement or prior knowledge of the violent coupRead More

Milan: A DHL cargo plane skidded off a runway at Bergamo’s Orio al Serio airport early Friday, its nose busting through a perimeter fence and onto a provincial highway. Officials said no one was injured. The airport near Milan, a hub for low-cost airlines and cargo traffic, was closed forRead More