Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call on Wednesday from the US Secretary of Defense during which they discussed ongoing arrangements to send US troops of a More »
Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity
:: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy confirmed on Wednesday the restoration of production capacity, affirming the Kingdom’s position as a reliable energy supplier in the global market. The energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz More »
Egypt calls Erdogan statements ‘ironic,’ accuses Turkey of sponsoring terrorism
:: Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman, Ahmed Hafez, slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statements at the UN General Assembly this week where he urged the UN to “handle the suspicious death of More »
Saudi Crown Prince: Attacks are test of int’l resolve against destructive acts
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Wednesday that the attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities are a test of international resolve in the face of destructive acts that More »
Saudi Crown Prince says attacks on oil facilities are a ‘dangerous escalation’
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the recent attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities represented a “dangerous escalation not only toward the Kingdom but also the entire world.” The Crown More »
Category Archives: Asia
India bans ISIS group and hunts for its sympathizers
India on Tuesday declared a ban on Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), days after having detained an engineer for running a popular Twitter account extolling the militant group’s military campaign. India has the world’s third-largest population of Muslims,
Police: Taliban attack over, all gunmen killed
A bloody Taliban raid on an army-run school in northwest Pakistan has ended, police said Tuesday, with all six attackers dead. The assault on the school in the city of Peshawar killed at least 130 people, most of them students,
Kareena to play Bijlani in Azhar biopic?
MUMBAI: Biopics on famous sports personalities is the latest fad of Bollywood filmmakers. After Milkha Singh and Mary Kom, cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin’s life is all set to be explored. According to the latest buzz, Kareena Kapoor is set to play
At least 95 killed in Taliban school attack
A Taliban attack on an army-run school in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday left at least 95 dead and many others wounded, Agence France Presse reported, quoting a Pakistani officials. Earlier, the health minister for Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the restive northwestern province where
Miss World honors Aishwarya
LONDON: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was honored with a special award at the glittering Miss World 2014 ceremony in London for her charity work. The 41-year-old actress appeared on stage with her husband Abhishek Bachchan, their daughter Aaradhya and her mother
Taliban shoot dead Supreme Court official in Afghan capital
Taliban insurgents gunned down a top official of Afghanistan’s Supreme Court as he left his home in Kabul on Saturday, the latest in a spate of strikes by the hardline Islamists on a broad range of targets in and around
U.N. condemns deadly Kabul school attack
The United Nations condemned two suicide attacks in Afghanistan that killed at least seven people Thursday, and said it had “serious concern” over the Taliban’s persistent threat. The bombings — one targeting a play at a French-financed school — come
Iran extends visas for 450,000 Afghan refugees
Iran said it had agreed to extend temporary visas for 450,000 Afghan refugees for six months, lifting a threat to send them back home to a country facing attacks by resurgent militants. Afghanistan — struggling to cope with hundreds of
SRK, Kajol relive DDLJ moments
MUMBAI: ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’, which made superstars out of Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, has completed 1000 weeks and SRK believes the film has lived so long because the story is relevant even today. The two stars got together
Afghanistan, Germany condemn CIA torture
Afghanistan’s newly-elected President Ashraf Ghani condemned United States actions as revealed in a senate report on the CIA’s interrogation techniques, branding them a violation “all accepted principles of human rights,” Agence France-Presse reported. “The Afghan government condemns these inhumane actions
Japan’s Godzilla to roar back in 2016
TOKYO: The original Godzilla is set to stomp through Tokyo again in 2016, a Japanese movie production company said Monday, in what will be the creature’s first return to home turf in a decade. Since the giant lizard first tore
U.S. hands over ‘Taliban commander’ to Pakistan
U.S. troops in Afghanistan said Sunday they had handed over three Pakistani detainees to Islamabad, while a security source said one of them was a senior Pakistani Taliban commander. “Acting on behalf of the United States government, we transferred custody
Uber cab driver in India arrested after suspected rape
Indian police on Sunday arrested an Uber cab driver suspected of raping a female passenger and said they would take legal action against the U.S. online taxi service for failing to run background checks on him. The suspect was held
Modi refuses to fire minster for derogatory remark about Muslims
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday rejected demands to fire a government minister whose derogatory comments about Muslims have led to a furor that has shut down the Indian Parliament for four days. Junior minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti told a
India detains suspect in plot to kill Bangladesh PM
Indian police have arrested a key suspect in a blast in West Bengal state who they believe is linked to a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of neighbouring Bangladesh and stage a coup there. Shahnor Alom, who was
Typhoon’s effects felt in Philippines, 600K flee
Powerful Typhoon Hagupit started lashing the eastern Philippines late Saturday, knocking down trees and causing power outages hours before it was expected to make landfall in a region still haunted by a monster storm last year, with 600,000 people fleeing
British reporter convicted for doubting Bangladesh war toll
DHAKA: A Bangladesh court on Tuesday found an award-winning British journalist guilty of contempt for questioning the official death toll of three million in the country’s 1971 independence war. Judges from a special war crimes court ruled that a blog
India ‘nears deal’ for French fighter jets
NEW DELHI: India is close to an agreement to buy Rafale fighter planes from France, an Indian defense spokesman said Tuesday. The 12 billion euro ($15 billion) deal for 126 of the jets would be France’s first foreign sale of
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