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Rockets from Syria hit Turkish border

ISTANBUL: Four rockets fired from Syria hit the Turkish southern border town of Kilis early on Sunday damaging houses, state-run Anadolu Agency said. Three of...

US congressman Meehan removed from ethics committee

PENNSYLVANIA: US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan removed Representative Patrick Meehan from the House Ethics Committee on Saturday following sexual misconduct allegations, Ryan’s...

Al Qaida to recruit from IS, its affiliates: report

GOR:Al Qaida has been trying to win over extremists from Islamic State, while the Isis “caliphate” collapses amid heavy losses of men, material, territory and...

Pope Francis urges protection of Amazon from ‘consumerist greed’

PUERTO MALDONADO: Pope Francis issued a ringing defence of the people and the environment of the Amazon on Friday, saying big business and “consumerist...

Ngannou to go from homeless to UFC heavyweight champ

BOSTON: Francis Ngannou has knockout power that snaps back heads like Pez dispensers and earned him comparisons to Mike Tyson in his ferocious heyday. Ngannou...

Chinese authorities spot four oil slicks from sunken tanker

BEIJING: The spill from a sunken Iranian tanker off China's east coast has spawned four oil slicks as authorities prepared to send robots to...

Macau police seek VIP dealer after $6m theft from Wynn

HONG KONG: Police in the world’s largest gambling hub of Macau are hunting for a dealer suspected of stealing HK$48 million ($6 million) worth...

House committee interviewing Bannon after his fall from power

WASHINGTON: The House Intelligence Committee is poised to question Steve Bannon, the onetime confidant to US President Donald Trump, following his spectacular fall from...

Mumbai chopper crash’s death toll rises to six

MUMBAI: Searchers have recovered two more bodies from the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed off India's west coast, taking the death toll to...

Two more bodies recovered from burning oil tanker in East China...

BEIJING: Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two crew members on an Iranian oil tanker that has been burning since it collided with a freighter...

Ex-Argentine vice president freed from corruption trial

BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s former economy minister and vice president, Amado Boudou, was freed from jail on Friday after an appeals court ruled that he...

Trump: Why allow immigrants from ‘shithole countries’?

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Thursday questioned why the United States would want to have immigrants from Haiti and African nations, referring to some...

Two women arrested for abducting baby from Karachi hospital

KARACHI: Police claimed to have recovered a newborn baby girl and arrested two women, allegedly involved in her kidnapping on Wednesday. According to SSP South...

Bannon steps down from Breitbart amid Trump row

WASHINGTON: Steve Bannon has stepped down from Breitbart News, where he served as Executive Chairman since 2012. A statement published on the far-right news website tonight...

Patients suffer at DHQ Hospital in TT Singh from shortage of...

  TOBA TEK SINGH: Patients and staff at District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital, Toba Tek Singh have to suffer due to water shortage as Local Government...

Iraq forcibly returning civilians from refugee camps to unsafe areas

AMRIYAT AL-FALLUJA: Iraqi security forces are forcibly returning civilians from refugee camps to unsafe areas in the predominantly Sunni Anbar province, exposing them to...

Eight people die, 86 rescued from sinking dinghy off Libya

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: At least eight people died and 86 others were rescued after a rubber dinghy starting sinking in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya, according...