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Narendra Modi to be India’s next PM: Exit polls

NEW DELHI: The Indian Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi is set to become the country’s next prime minister as Exit polls show that the Bharatiya...

Saudi FM invites his Iranian counterpart, says Riyadh ready to talk with Iran

RIYADH: The Saudi foreign minister Saud Al-Faisal said on Tuesday that an invitation has been sent to the Iranian foreign minister to visit the...

Bus crashes in Myanmar, 14 killed

YANGON: A bus went out of control, crashed into a bridge and fell onto a rail track in Myanmar killing at least 14 persons...

Iran, IAEA review progress in implementation of cooperation agreement

VIENNA: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iranian officials held a meeting in Vienna to review the progress in the implementation of their...

Nigeria declines to release Boko Haram militants for girls

ABUJA: The Nigerian government has declined to release Boko Haram militants for the release of dozens of kidnapped schoolgirls. In a statement, the Nigerian Interior...

Nigeria’s Boko Haram willing to exchange girls for prisoners

LAGOS: The Nigerian Islamist rebel group Boko Haram on Monday expressed its willingness to release the abducted school girls in exchange for prisoners. The group...

Ukraine denounces referendums, Russia says respects results

KIEV: The Ukrainian interim President Oleksandr Turchynov on Monday slammed the independence referendums held in country’s eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as a...

Rouhani says Iran will not accept nuclear apartheid

TEHRAN: The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said that his country will not accept nuclear apartheid but is willing to offer more transparency over...

Eastern Ukraine referendum: Pro-Russian rebels declare victory in Donetsk

KIEV: Pro-Russian rebels have declared victory in Sunday’s referendum on self-rule for Ukraine’s eastern region of Donetsk, claiming that 90 percent of votes cast...

Indian elections 2014: Voting for final phase of Lok Sabha elections underway

NEW DELHI: The polling is underway for the final phase of the nine-phase Lok Sabha elections in India on Monday. More than 60 million eligible...

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