After NYC subway bombing, Trump slams ‘chain migration’NEW YORK: A would-be suicide bomber's rush-hour blast in the heart of the New York City subway system failed to cause the bloodshed he intended, authorities said, but it gave new fuel to President Don...
Rio’s stray bullets give innocent nowhere to hideWhile the fighting in Rio de Janeiro's crime war is done by commando-style police and heavily armed drug traffickers, a growing number of the victims look quite different: innocent, joyful children li...
South Korea’s Moon, China’s Xi to talk North Korea, trade in Beijing summitSEOUL/BEIJING: Curbing North Korea's nuclear ambitions will top South Korean President Moon Jae-in's agenda in Beijing during a visit this week aimed at breaking the ice after a furious row over Seoul...
Trump’s candidate in final pitch as Alabama braces for Senate electionCandidates in Alabama's intensely-watched Senate race made their final pitches to voters late Monday, after President Donald Trump urged loyalists to elect the firebrand Republican Roy Moore despite a...
Macron seeks climate pledges after US withdrawal from Paris accordPARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron will on Tuesday urge wealthy countries and global companies to commit more funds to combating global warming and help poorer nations deal with the impact of cli...
New York bomber not on Bangladesh terror list: Dhaka policeBangladesh police scrambled Tuesday for details about alleged New York subway bomber Akayed Ullah, but uncovered few early leads that might shed light on what might have driven him to try and kill com...
US chain AMC signs Saudi deal after cinema ban liftedGiant US cinema chain AMC Entertainment has signed a deal to build and operate movie theatres in Saudi Arabia after the conservative kingdom lifted a decades-old ban. The deal, announced by AMC in a s...
Fugitive wins seat in Nepal parliamentA fugitive wanted over a deadly attack on police won a seat in Nepal's national parliament Tuesday, despite being in hiding and not once appearing in public during his campaign. Resham Chaudhary won t...
Afghan forces to launch operation against IS in the northAfghanistan's military plans to launch a major operation to stop the Islamic State group making inroads into the country's northern provinces, officials said Tuesday, after AFP reported that fighters...
Bangladesh condemns US attack in which citizen is suspectDHAKA: Bangladesh's government condemned an attack on New York City's subway system, as it emerged that the suspect is an immigrant from the South Asian nation. "Bangladesh is committed to its declare...
More than 8 million Yemenis ‘a step away from famine’: UNGENEVA: Warring sides must let more aid get through to 8.4 million people who are "a step away from famine" in Yemen, a senior UN official said on Monday. A Saudi-led military coalition fighting the I...
Japan to stress to UN chief need to ‘maximise pressure’ on North KoreaTOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will stress to the UN secretary-general his opposition to talks with North Korea and will instead urge maximum pressure to get it to abandon its weapons progr...
Japan picks ‘North’ as 2017 symbol amid N. Korea threatJapan on Tuesday chose the Chinese character for "North" as its traditional "defining symbol of 2017" following a series of North Korean missile launches. Japanese TV stations went live to broadcast t...