US officially opens its embassy in Jerusalem

he United States officially opened its deeply controversial Jerusalem embassy on Monday in a ceremony that included a video address by President Donald Trump.Trump told the ceremony that the United S…

India MP Shashi Tharoor charged over wife's death

Indian MP and former UN diplomat Shashi Tharoor has been charged with aiding his wife's suicide in 2014.Sunanda Pushkar's death was initially treated as suicide, but police later said she had been mu…

Gaza Clashes: Number of Palestinians killed rises to 16

Violent clashes erupted along the Gaza Strip's border hours ahead of the controversial opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, leaving 16 Palestinians dead from Israeli fire and hundreds mo…

Two Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza border clashes over U.S. embassy

Israeli gunfire killed two Palestinians and wounded at least 35 other protesters along the Gaza border on Monday, health officials said, as demonstrators streamed to the frontier on the day the Unite…

Iraqi air force destroys Islamic State command center in Syria: State TV

The Iraqi air force carried out a strike on an Islamic State (IS) position inside Syria, state television reported on Monday citing a military statement.The strike, ordered by Prime Minister Haider a…

Clashes erupt along Gaza-Israel border ahead of US embassy inauguration

Clashes erupted along the Gaza Strip's border with Israel on Monday between Palestinians and Israeli forces ahead of the controversial inauguration of the US embassy in Jerusalem, AFP journalists rep…

Grandfather planned the shooting of my four children, says devastated father

The grieving father of four children who were killed in a family mass murder and suicide case that rocked Australia said Sunday their grandfather was to blame for what he called a planned shooting.Aa…

India: At least 61 dead in four states from dust storm

At least 61 people have died in fierce dust storms across four Indian states since Sunday evening, with officials warning of more bad weather to come.High-speed winds and lightning devastated many vi…

Zawahiri calls for jihad on eve of US embassy move to Jerusalem

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri on Sunday said America's decision to shift its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem was evidence that negotiations and "appeasement" have failed Palestinians as he urged Mus…

Another family behind new Indonesia suicide bombings: police

A family of five, including a child, carried out the suicide bombing of a police headquarters in Indonesia's second city Surabaya on Monday, police said, a day after a deadly wave of attacks on churc…

Top India policeman kills himself

One of India's most senior police officials has killed himself in the western city of Mumbai, senior officials have confirmed.Himanshu Roy, 55, who was the head of the anti-terrorism squad in Maharas…

Putin speaks with Merkel, Erdogan in bid to keep Iran deal

Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken with Germany's Angela Merkel and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a bid to keep the Iran nuclear deal alive after the US decision to withdraw, the Kremlin …

6-year-old girl calls police for help after mum beaten

A six-year-old in Italy who saw her mother being hit by her partner called the police for help, media reports say."Come, he's beating my mother," the girl tearfully told emergency services in Messina…

India woman beaten to death over child abduction rumours

More than 30 people have been arrested over lynching of a 55-year-old woman in southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.The killing happened amid rumours and false WhatsApp messages over kidnapping of chi…

Rape victim takes on Chinese police over stalled probe

A Chinese graduate student has become a social media sensation in China after attempting to sue police for dismissing her rape report, giving the country's fledgling #MeToo movement a new cause.Renee…

Russian who stabbed journalist to undergo compulsory psychiatric treatment: Court

A Russian man who stabbed a well-known journalist and Kremlin critic in the neck last year will avoid jail but undergo compulsory psychiatric treatment, a Moscow court ruled Friday. Boris Grits, a du…

Indonesian volcano erupts, sparking evacuations

Indonesian villagers living in the shadow of one of the world's most active volcanoes fled to safety Friday as the crater erupted, sending a cascade of ash and smoke some 5,000 metres (16,400 feet) i…

Bomb blast kills one policeman, wounds 13 in northwest Pakistan

A bomb blast ripped through a bus terminal in a Pakistani region bordering Afghanistan on Friday, killing one policeman and wounding 13, officials said, but there was no immediate claim of responsibi…

Two ex-Hong Kong lawmakers convicted of unlawful assembly

A Hong Kong court on Friday found two pro-independence activists guilty of unlawful assembly inside the legislature while they were still lawmakers, dealing a further blow to waning political dissent…

France Condemns United States Over Iran Sanctions

France's foreign minister on Thursday condemned the United States for reimposing sanctions against foreign companies trading with Iran, labelling the move "unacceptable" in comments that expose the d…