Seoul, January 6 North Korea said on Wednesday it had carried out a “successful” hydrogen bomb test, a claim that — if true — massively raises the stakes over the hermit state’s banned nuclear programme. Neighbouring South Korea’s National Security Council “strongly condemned” the test, while Japanese Prime Minister describedRead More

Washington, January 6 Citing the massacre of innocents in Newtown to gunning down of Sikh worshippers in Oak Creek, a tearful President Barack Obama vowed to curb gun violence with commonsense reforms sidestepping the US Congress. But analysts said his move to curb mass shootings through executive action is boundRead More

Paris, January 6 One year on, an anxious, fragmented France is paying tribute to the victims of the killings at Charlie Hebdo magazine, with old divisions made worse by what President Francois Hollande has called “a terrible year”. After the Islamist attacks that killed 17 on January 7-9 last yearRead More

Washington, January 6 Pakistan’s powerful intelligence agency ISI is behind the attack on Pathankot air base in Punjab using a terrorist group it created 15 years ago, a former top White House official has said. Bruce Riedel, who worked in the National Security Council of the White House and wasRead More

Washington, January 6 A US university, whose Indian students faced deportation in recent weeks, has blamed Air India and some of the deported students for the prevailing confusion on the issue. “I want to share with everyone my strong belief that these difficulties arose solely because of the actions ofRead More

Riyadh, January 5 The diplomatic crisis surrounding Saudi Arabia and Iran widened today as Kuwait recalled its ambassador to Tehran in the face of growing international concern. Joining Riyadh and its Sunni Arab allies in taking diplomatic action, Kuwait said it was withdrawing its envoy over a weekend attack onRead More

Istanbul, January 5 Turkish authorities said they found the bodies of 34 migrants, at least three of them children, at two separate locations on the Aegean coast on Tuesday after a migrant boat apparently capsized as it tried to reach the Greek island of Lesbos. The flow of mostly SyrianRead More

Beijing, January 5 In a suspected arson attack, at least 17 persons, including nine women, were killed and 32 others injured today when a passenger bus was set ablaze by a disgruntled man in northwest China. The accident happened when the bus went up in flames near a furniture mallRead More

Islamabad: Pakistan Navy has raised a special marine battalion to provide security to Chinese engineers and workers at the strategic Gwadar Port being developed by China under the $46 billion economic corridor project that will give the Communist giant access to the Arabian Sea. The ambitious 3,000-km China-Pakistan Economic CorridorRead More

Washington, January 4 Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s much-awaited first TV ad features a promise that once he is at the helm he will quickly cut” ISIS’ head and “take their oil”. Trump’s ad begins with a shot of President Obama and Hillary Clinton. Then comes a US battleship launchingRead More