ADEN, YEMEN: A suicide car bombing killed at least eight people at a checkpoint outside Yemen’s presidential palace in the southern city of Aden on Thursday, security and medical officials said. The dead included soldiers and civilians and at least 12 others were wounded, a medical source said. A securityRead More

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM: NATO head Jens Stoltenberg confirmed Thursday the alliance is discussing whether to hold its first formal talks with Russia since 2014 when the Ukraine crisis plunged relations into a deep freeze. Stoltenberg said NATO and Russia needed transparency to avoid misunderstandings and incidents such as the November shootingRead More

TOKYO, JAPAN: Japan’s economy minister resigned Thursday over a corruption scandal, dealing a blow to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as he looks to build support for a massive trade deal and changes to the country’s constitution. Akira Amari’s surprise resignation comes a week after the veteran politician was hit byRead More

ROME, ITALY: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday he hoped his country could reconcile with fellow Middle Eastern powerhouse Saudi Arabia, but refused to apologise for an attack on a Saudi embassy. “We did everything we had to, we condemned” the attack, Rouhani said of the torching of the embassyRead More

BEIJING, CHINA: Nuclear-armed North Korea poses an “overt threat, a declared threat to the world”, US Secretary of State John Kerry said in Beijing Wednesday following Pyongyang’s fourth nuclear test earlier this month. Washington is pushing for a strong United Nations response to the North’s latest atomic blast — whichRead More

DOHA, QATAR: Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani appointed new foreign and labour ministers Wednesday in a reshuffle of heavyweight cabinet positions, state media announced. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, a member of the royal family, replaced Khalid al-Attiyah as foreign minister, according to the emir’s order published onRead More

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM: British Prime Minister David Cameron will meet European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels on Friday, cancelling a previously scheduled visit to Sweden and Denmark, his office said. The two will “discuss the UK’s renegotiation of its membership” of the European Union, Downing Street said in aRead More

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: Only Syrians have been invited to peace talks in Geneva, the UN said Wednesday, in an apparent contradiction to Turkey’s suggestion that it would be included. On Tuesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Ankara would “boycott” the talks set to open on Friday if the Syrian KurdishRead More

Dhaka, January 25 Former Bangladeshi prime minister and opposition leader Khaleda Zia was today booked for treason over her alleged “slanderous comments” concerning martyrs of the 1971 liberation war against Pakistan, with a court here summoning her to appear before it. “The case has been filed against her at theRead More

Washington, January 25 A turbaned Sikh man was forced out of Donald Trump’s rally in the US state of Iowa after he interrupted the Republican presidential frontrunner’s speech by displaying a banner that read ‘Stop Hate’. The man, wearing in bright red turban, started his peaceful protest impromptu, when TrumpRead More