AFP, WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will Monday unveil what he called the “biggest, most important step we’ve ever taken” to fight climate change, a sensitive issue central to his legacy. The White House will release the final version of America’s Clean Power Plan, a set…

AFP, KABUL: Afghanistan’s Haqqani network militant group posted a statement yesterday backing the appointment of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour whose legitimacy has been challenged internally. The statement was posted on the Taliban’s website quoting its founder Jalaluddin Haqqani,…

AFP, CAIRO: US Secretary of State John Kerry launched a strategic dialogue with his Egyptian counterpart in Cairo on Sunday, pledging Washington’s support as the two countries patched up a diplomatic rift. Kerry was to meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi later before travelling on to…

AFP, WASHINGTON: Vice President Joe Biden is actively exploring a possible presidential run, a move which would jolt the Democratic field and its frontrunner Hillary Clinton, The New York Times reported Saturday. Traditionally, a Democrat would not take on a fellow party member who was leading the field…

AFP, CAIRO: An Egyptian court yesterday postponed for a second time its verdict in the retrial of three Al-Jazeera journalists, rescheduling it for August 29. The court had already put off its much anticipated verdict last Thursday because the judge was reportedly ill. Another judge at Sunday’s…

AFP, Guwahati, India: Rescuers were searching yesterday for 20 villagers feared killed in a landslide in remote northeast India, as the death toll from days of torrential rains elsewhere in the country rose, officials said. The side of a hill collapsed on Saturday on a village in Manipur state close…

AFP, TAIPEI: One has been beheaded, others defaced. Some are dressed in costumes by pranksters. Statues of Taiwan’s former ruler Chiang Kai-shek have been increasingly targeted as the island confronts its authoritarian past. Though still seen as a hero by some in Taiwan for waging war against…

AFP, Jerusalem: Clashes broke out yesterday at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque, one of Islam’s holiest sites, two days after a Palestinian toddler was burned alive in a firebombing by suspected Jewish extremists. Police said masked Palestinian youths at the mosque threw stones at security forces…