Rabat, Sep 9 (IANS) The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ISESCO) on Thursday commend Saudi Arabia’s efforts to improve haj conditions. “The great efforts, huge projects and large-scale preparations carried out by Saudi Arabia…
Damascus, Sep 9 (IANS) Syria’s Foreign Ministry has denied claims about military gas attack in northern Aleppo province, media reports said. The ministry denied any gas attack by the Syrian army on the rebel-held neighbourhood…
Paris, Sep 9 (IANS) Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving key suspect of Paris attacks of last November, remained silent on Thursday during a questioning over France’s worst terror assaults, his defence lawyer Franck Breton said….
Nairobi, Sep 9 (IANS) At least four police officers were injured after a police aircraft crashed in the capital Nairobi on Thursday. Nairobi County police commander Japheth Koome confirmed the incident at Nairobi’s sprawling Mathare…
New York, Sep 9 (IANS) A lot of voters are having trouble deciding who to vote for as nearly one in five voters nationwide report themselves as undecided or flirting with third-party candidates, a media…
London, Sep 9 (IANS) A 60-year-old school janitor in Scotland, who was engaged to an 18-year-old former pupil, was sacked “on the spot” when his employer learned about the relationship. Lisa Miller, 18, reportedly proposed…
Pyongyang, Sep 9 (IANS) North Korea on Thursday slammed the remarks made by US President Barack Obama at the 11th East Asia Summit about its ballistic missile launches and urged Washington to exercise “self-prudence.” Obama…
Beijing, Sep 9 (IANS) A Chinese firm has developed and tested a radar system that uses quantum entanglement to beat the stealth technology of modern military craft, a media report said.state media said. The first…
London, Sep 9 (IANS) Although retailers have reported a surge in Apple’s newly launched wireless headphones — AirPods — sales, the market has been dogged by concerns about the sound quality, price and durability of…
Athens, Sep 9 (IANS) The first Rhodes Conference for Security and Stability in the Mediterranean, an initiative of the Greek Foreign Ministry, opened on Thursday with the participation of high-ranking officials from 14 European and…
Islamabad, Sep 8 (IANS) Days after India and the US signed agreement on sharing military logistics, Pakistan on Thursday said that it was “carefully monitoring” the development between the two “sovereign states”. The agreement between…
Vientiane, Sep 8 (IANS) US President Barack Obama on Thursday called Donald Trump “wacky” and “uninformed” after the Republican candidate said Russia’s President Putin was a better leader. Speaking in Laos, according to BBC, Obama…
Ankara, Sep 8 (IANS) A total of 11,285 teachers were suspended for alleged links with the outlawed Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), the Turkish Education Ministry said on Thursday. The announcement came after Prime Minister Binali…
Dubai, Sep 8 (IANS/WAM) United Arab Emirates authorities on Thursday ordered release of a number of prisoners from punitive and reformative institutions ahead of the Eid-ul-Adha which falls on September 12 in the gulf region….
New York, Sep 8 (IANS) The sophisticated gadgetry in smartphones makes them ideal tools to steal sensitive data from 3-D printers, says a study. That’s according to a new University at Buffalo study that explores…
Canberra, Sep 8 (IANS) An 18-year-old youth has been detained by the Australian police after he was seen acting suspiciously outside the Sydney Opera House. He was reportedly wearing a backpack and making extremist remarks…
Vientiane (Laos), Sep 8 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday advocated the strongest action against states that use terrorism as an instrument of state policy while outlining India’s principled stand on the South China…
New York, Sep 8 (IANS) Although millennial voters are seen as a key demographic factor for a political victory in the US, their political views differ significantly from their parents or young people of previous…
London, Sep 8 (IANS) A senior UN peacekeeping official on Thursday said that the organisation is committed to increasing the number of female peacekeepers, urging worldwide efforts to make peacekeeping troops more gender-balanced. “We are…
Beijing, Sep 8 (IANS) China on Thursday said that US President Barack Obama should be neutral in Beijing’s maritime disputes with its neighbours. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying urged the US to play a…