Moscow,The Syrian government and its close allies in Moscow and Tehran warned Barack Obama that an offensive against Islamic State (Isis) within Syria would violate international law yesterday, hours after the US president announced that he was authorising an open-ended campaign of air strikes against militants on both sides ofRead More

Sydney,Australia on Friday raised the terror threat level to “high” from “medium” for the first time in a decade, on concerns about Australians returning from fighting in the Middle East. The heightened alert means a “terrorist attack is likely”. “There are people with the intent and the capability to mountRead More

New York, An American who tweeted his allegiance to the leader of Islamic State jihadists was arrested at New York’s JFK airport last week, officials said Friday. Donald Ray Morgan was taken into custody on August 2 upon his arrival from Frankfurt, according to documents filed in a federal courtRead More

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein on Friday said a team of international investigators should gain immediate access to the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17`s crash site in Ukraine. Hishammuddin said he along with Dutch Defence Minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert agreed to the need to resume the search, recovery and investigationRead More

Islamabad, The 10 Taliban militants who tried to kill Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai for her outspoken views on girls’ education in the country’s troubled northwest in 2012 have been arrested, the Pakistani army announced on Friday. Malala, then 15, was shot in her head by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) gunmenRead More

South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of culpable homicide after the judge found he killed his girlfriend by mistake. Judge Thokozile Masipa said the athlete acted “negligently” when he fired shots through a toilet door, but in the “belief that there was an intruder”. She said theRead More

Yahoo! Inc. said the U.S. government threatened in 2008 to fine it $250,000 a day for refusing to comply with national security-related requests for its users’ Internet data. In small victory for Yahoo’s legal challenges to U.S. surveillance practices, a court today permitted the company to release 1,500 pages ofRead More

Ankara: US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Ankara Friday for talks aimed at building a coalition against Islamic State jihadists, a visit that comes after Turkey said it would not allow its air bases to be used for strikes on the extremists. The top US diplomat, touring theRead More

Beirut: Syria must be part of the coalition against jihadists because the country is a key victim of “terrorism”, an adviser to President Bashar al-Assad said on Friday. “Terrorism didn`t start in Syria today, it started four years ago” when the uprising against Assad began, Buthaina Shaaban was quoted asRead More

United Nations, India had the highest number of unregistered children under age five between 2000 and 2012 and the second-highest number of child marriages, according to a UN report which said the country still needs to improve immunisation coverage and stop gender-based sex selection. The report ‘Improving Children’s Lives, TransformingRead More