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Chinese President Xi Jinping in California for summit with Obama

WASHINGTON: Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in California for a meeting with US President Barack Obama. The China-US summit scheduled to be held on...

Russia warns against claims about use of chemical weapons in Syria

MOSCOW: Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday warned against ‘speculations and provocation’ surrounding claims that Syrian forces used chemical weapons against militants, saying that...

Russia to deploy ten warships to the Mediterranean Sea

MOSCOW: Russian navy will deploy about 10 warships to the Mediterranean Sea on a permanent basis, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday. "The operational...

Pirates release five Pakistani crew members kidnapped off Nigeria

YENAGOA: Five Pakistani crew members, who were kidnapped from an oil tanker off the Nigerian coast two weeks ago, have been released by Pirates,...

Nawaz directs Pakistani missions abroad to aggressively pursue economic diplomacy

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday issued guidelines to the Foreign Office and Pakistani missions abroad underlying the need for aggressively pursuing economic...

Building collapses in Philadelphia, several people feared trapped

PHILADELPHIA: As many as 8 to 10 people are believed trapped in the rubble as a four-story industrial building has collapsed in Center City...

Susan Rice to be next US National Security Advisor as Tom Donilon steps down

WASHINGTON: US ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice will become President Barack Obama’s top national security adviser as Tom Donilon is stepping down...

Nawaz demands US to end drone strikes

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday called on the US to end its campaign of drone attacks in the country’s...

Egypt court sentences 15 Americans in absentia in NGO case, jails 1

CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced at least 15 US citizens in absentia to five years in jail and one American who stood...

113 killed as fire breaks out in China poultry farm

BEIJING: At least 113 people were killed when a fire broke out at a locked poultry slaughterhouse in China’s Jilin province on Monday morning,...

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