Beirut, January 25 The Islamic State group has released a video purporting to show nine jihadists behind the November Paris attacks that killed 130 people, in which they threaten “coalition” countries, including Britain. The video posted yesterday on jihadist websites is entitled “Kill wherever you find them”, and shows fourRead More

Washington, January 25 The eastern United States emerged wearily from a massive blizzard that dumped huge amounts of snow and killed at least 25 people, but Washington was still reeling, with government offices and schools to remain closed today. The storm — dubbed “Snowzilla” — walloped a dozen states fromRead More

Srinagar, January 25 Elite commando of Army’s Special Forces Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami has been awarded Ashok Chakra, the country’s highest peace time gallantary honour, for laying down his life while saving his two colleagues during an encounter with militants in Kashmir last year. This was stated by DefenceRead More

Dubai, January 25 A Bahraini court sentenced 57 men to 15-year jail terms on Monday for rioting in a prison outside the capital Manama last March, the public prosecutor’s office said. Bahraini security forces tear-gassed and beat inmates at Jaw prison on March 8 while trying to quell clashes thatRead More

Yaounde (Cameroon), January 25 Local officials say that four suicide bombers attacked a town in Cameroon’s Far North region near the border with Nigeria, killing at least 28 persons and wounding 65 others. Governor Midjiyawa Bakari said on Monday that two attackers detonated explosives at a market and two othersRead More

Vientiane (Laos), January 25 US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday dismissed Syrian government claims and Opposition complaints as posturing ahead of UN-led peace talks that are supposed to begin this week. Kerry, in Laos after discussing the negotiations with officials in Switzerland and Saudi Arabia last week, saidRead More

Washington, January 24 Pakistan must take effective action against terrorist groups operating from its soil “delegitimising, disrupting and dismantling” terror networks there, US President Barrack Obama said on Sunday. Describing the terror attack on the IAF base in Pathankot as “another example of the excusable terrorism that India has enduredRead More

New York/Washington, A blizzard that has paralysed much of the US East Coast intensified on Saturday, bringing Washington to a standstill and forcing the closure of roads, bridges and tunnels into New York until Sunday morning. In all, there were at least 19 deaths in several states related to the storm.Read More

  Kabul, January 24 Afghanistan’s Taliban demanded the release of political prisoners among a list of conditions that they said on Sunday would need to be met before they consider rejoining peace talks aimed at ending the 15-year war. Taliban forces have stepped up their campaign in the last yearRead More

  Peshawar, January 24 At least four people, among them an Afghan seminary teacher and a child, were injured in a roadside bomb explosion in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said. The remote-controlled blast, triggered through an improvised explosive device, hit the vehicle of Qari Salahuddin, an Afghan nationalRead More