BERLIN, GERMANY: Chancellor Angela Merkel will host Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu for talks next Friday, her spokesman said, with discussions to centre on the suicide attack in Istanbul that claimed 10 German lives. Tuesday’s “attack in Istanbul will play a central role” in the talks, said Steffen Seibert, spokesmanRead More

  UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday appealed for a shift from “heavy-handed” responses to the rise of extremists like the ISIS group as he launched an action plan to prevent violent extremism. Ban asked all countries to come up with national plans and outline stepsRead More

WASHINGTON, Delivering his seventh and final State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, U.S. President Barack Obama sought to inspire and unify a country that is gripped by fear and uncertainty fanned by a fractious election campaign that is under way. The U.S will elect aRead More

New York, Russian President Vladimir Putin hinted that he may grant asylum to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and compared it to the situation of American defector Edward Snowden. Putin said that it was ‘more difficult’ to grant asylum to Snowden than it would be in the case of Assad, FoxRead More

Kabul, At least six policemen were killed on Wednesday in a terror attack apparently targeted at the Pakistani consulate in Jalalabad city in Afghanistan, media reports said. Afghan security forces battled gunmen barricaded in a house near the consulate, which the attackers had apparently tried to enter, a Pakistani newsRead More

WASHINGTON, Indian-American Republican Governor Nikki Haley on Wednesday faced flak from the supporters of her party’s presidential candidate Donald Trump, as she cited her family’s immigrant experience to warn against rhetoric that could make hardworking people feel unwelcome in the US. During her response to President Barack Obama’s last StateRead More

Quetta (Pakistan), At least fourteen people were killed and 10 others injured in an explosion near a polio centre in Pakistan’s Quetta city on Wednesday, a media report said. The victims, most of whom are police officials, have been shifted to the civil hospital in Quetta, where an emergency hasRead More

WASHINGTON, Pakistan is taking serious steps to apprehend the conspirators behind the terrorist strike at the Pathankot Air Force base, the United States has said. As uncertainty looms over the Foreign Secretary-level talks between india and Pakistan scheduled for January 15, the U.S efforts are in a direction to ensureRead More

KABUL: Pakistan Army officers were behind the January 3 attack on the Indian consulate in Afghanistan’s Mazar-i-Sharif, a senior Afghan police official claimed today. Sayed Kamal Sadat, police chief of Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province, said the attackers, “officers from across the border, were well-trained military men who fought Afghan securityRead More

BAGHDAD, The Islamic State group is claiming responsibility for the Baghdad mall attack that killed 18 people on Monday. The IS statement, posted online shortly after the attack, said four IS fighters carried it out and warned of “worse” to come. Iraqi officials say the attack was carried out byRead More