AFP, CHARLESTON: President Barack Obama was yesterday set to deliver a eulogy in Charleston for the chief pastor gunned down in a church in an apparently racially-motivated attack that shocked the nation. Obama will deliver the remarks in the afternoon for pastor Clementa Pinckney, who was killed along…

AFP, ROME: A Pakistani accused of organising a 2009 bomb attack on a Peshawar market that killed more than 130 people, has been detained in Italy, police said yesterday. Siyar Khan, 36, who is also suspected of involvement in a potential plot against Pope Francis, was arrested on terrorism charges as…

AFP, WASHINGTON: Russian President Vladimir Putin called his US counterpart Barack Obama on Thursday to discuss the conflict in Ukraine, the Islamic State group's advances and a deal on Iran's nuclear program. The crisis in Ukraine has triggered the worst standoff between Russia and the West…

Burundi opposition boycotts poll AFP, BUJUMBURA, Burundi: Burundi's opposition parties announced yesterday they will boycott upcoming elections, saying it was not possible to hold a fair vote following weeks of violence over President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid to cling to power. "All the…

AP/UNB, New Delhi: Heavy early monsoon rains have killed at least 81 people in India's western Gujarat state, bringing misery to thousands of people uprooted from their flooded homes. Ridhi Butt, a National Disaster Response Force official, says nearly 9,000 people have been evacuated to higher…

AFP, SAINT-QUENTIN-FALLAVIER: A suspected Islamist attacker pinned a decapitated head covered with Arabic writing to the gates of a gas factory in eastern France yesterday before being arrested, police said. The suspect entered the factory and set off several small explosive devices, the source said.…

AFP, BERLIN: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II made her first trip to a former Nazi concentration camp yesterday, visiting Bergen-Belsen just over 70 years after it was liberated by British forces, on the final day of her state visit to Germany. The 89-year-old queen was accompanied by her husband Prince…

AFP, TEHRAN: Iran said on Friday there were still "some major problems" in finalising a nuclear agreement with world powers as the clock ticks down to a Tuesday deadline. "Some major problems exist which are still blocking the work... but in other areas we have made good progress,"…