Islamabad, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech at the UN was everything his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif’s was not, said a Pakistani daily on Monday. An editorial “Modi at the UN” in the Daily Times said: “Modi continued his charm offensive in the west with a speech to the UNRead More

Kabul/Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai was sworn in Monday as Afghanistan’s new president, replacing Hamid Karzai in the country’s first democratic transfer of power since the 2001 US-led invasion toppled the Taliban. Ghani Ahmadzai became president of Afghanistan in a peaceful transition after a six-month election season that ended with marathonRead More

New York, A delegation of Sikh-Americans has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to remove the hurdles faced by them while applying for visas or renewal of passports, particularly by those who had applied for political asylum in 1980s. “The NRI Sikh community feels alienated as Indian Embassies refuse them visasRead More

Washington, Russia’s foreign secretary said relations between Moscow and Washington need – in his words, a new “reset” – referring to U.S. President Barack Obama’s effort to improve ties with Russia in the early days of his administration. In a Russian television interview airing Sunday, Sergey Lavrov blamed the UnitedRead More

Beijing, A group of around 50 students in Hong Kong who broke into a government compound and fenced themselves in behind metal barriers to protest for democracy were arrested by riot police on Saturday afternoon. The arrests, which were not resisted by the students, capped an angry 24 hours, duringRead More

Tokyo, At least 30 climbers are feared dead after being found on Sunday by emergency teams on Mount Ontake, Japan’s second-highest volcano, which erupted the previous day. The victims were found near the peak of the 10,062-foot mountain and appear to have been knocked unconscious by debris erupting from theRead More

SANLIURFA: Airstrikes likely carried out by a U.S.-led coalition struck an oil refinery in Syria held by the Islamic State group Sunday, a witness said, shaking buildings and sending flames shooting into the air near the Turkish border. Explosions lit the sky “for two hours” at the refinery in theRead More

SANAA: Hundreds demonstrated Sunday in Yemen’s capital, urging state security forces to return to the streets and demanding Shiite rebel militias leave Sanaa. The demonstrations came a day after Yemeni political forces signed a security deal in which the Shiite rebels, known as Hawthis, agreed to disarm their militia andRead More

ISLAMABAD: At least two people were killed and four injured in a US drone attack in Pakistan Sunday, a media report said.An unmanned aircraft fired two missiles at a vehicle in Wana area of South Waziristan Agency in northwest Pakistan, killing two and injuring four others, Geo TV quoted sourcesRead More

Monrovia, Doctors are in short supply. So are beds for patients. Six months into the world’s worst-ever Ebola outbreak, and the first to happen in an unprepared West Africa, the gap between what has been sent by other countries and private groups and what is needed is huge. Even as countriesRead More