Hong Kong,  Thousands of Hong Kong university students abandoned classes on Monday to rally against Chinese government limits on voting rights, a bellwether demonstration of the city’s appetite for turning smoldering discontent into street-level opposition. “University students must shoulder the responsibility of these times,” Nathan Law Kwun-chung, the acting presidentRead More

Sydney,Tony Abbott, Australia’s prime minister, has expanded the powers of Australia’s counterterrorism forces and banned travel to designated “terror hot spots” such as northern Syria, but explicitly ruled that agents cannot use torture. As police stepped up patrols in the wake of an Islamic State-linkedplot to conduct filmed beheadings in Sydney, MrRead More

New York, The latest issue of the digital magazine “Dabiq” features glossy photos of smiling militants from the Islamic State group, mutilated bodies on the battlefield and articles with titles such as, “There is No Life Without Jihad” and “Foley’s Blood is on Obama’s Hands.” It refers to Americans asRead More

Washington : After 10-month journey of 442 million mile, NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission entered into Mars orbit, the US space agency has said. After a 33-minute engine firing, mission controllers received acknowledgment at about 10.25 p.m. that MAVEN was into the orbit, it said Sunday night.Read More

Tehran, Two Chinese destroyers have arrived at Iran’s Gulf port of Bandar Abbas, in an unprecedented visit attesting to a new rapprochement between the two countries, Iranian media has reported. The four-day visit is the first time a Chinese naval vessel has called at a port in the Islamic republic,Read More

Washington, US Secretary of State John Kerry reaffirmed US concern Sunday over the use of chlorine gas against civilians in Syria and warned President Bashar al-Assad`s regime that it would be held to account. Kerry pointed to a report by the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons that concludedRead More

Cairo: At least six Egyptian army personnel were killed today when a military aircraft crashed due to sudden technical error during a training exercise in southern Cairo. The aircraft crashed in the Kom Oshim area of Fayoum governorate, about 100 kilometer es south of Cairo, during a training exercise, saidRead More

Tirana: Pope Francis has called on moderate Muslims and all religious leaders to condemn Islamic extremists who “pervert” religion to justify violence, as he visited Albania and held it up as a model for interfaith harmony. One of the highlights of Francis’ visit was a meeting today with representatives ofRead More

Paris: “The match has begun,” French political veteran Alain Juppe said today after his rival and ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy announced his comeback, as the battle for supremacy over the country’s beleaguered opposition kicked off. Both centre-right heavyweights, keen to put behind the in-fighting and scandals that have stopped the oppositionRead More

Beijing: The Chinese military would conduct a first real-combat medical services drill this month in north China’s Inner Mongolia, officials said today. The exercise will be held at Zhurihe training base in Inner Mongolia, said the General Logistics Department (GLD) of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). A red team andRead More