AFP, WASHINGTON: A decade of anger over the Iraq war resurfaced in the 2016 US election race Tuesday, with Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton’s campaigns trading blame about that country’s continued instability. Twelve years after president George W Bush led the United States into an unpopular…

AFP, ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday vowed to fight on against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants, in the face of mounting attacks on security forces blamed on the Kurdish rebels. “Let me put it clearly, the operations will continue,” he said in a televised…

AFP, BEIJING: More than 60 people were missing in China yesterday after a landslide buried the living quarters of a mining company under one million cubic metres of earth, state media said. The landslide covered 15 employee dormitories and three houses in Shanyang county in the northern province of…

AFP, KARACHI: Lawmakers from a major Pakistani opposition party resigned their seats Wednesday in protest at what they describe as a campaign of victimisation against them The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), the fourth largest party in the National Assembly or lower house of parliament, quit all its…

AFP, SEOUL: North Korea’s vice premier Choe Yong-Gon has been executed for voicing frustration at the policies of leader Kim Jong-Un, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said Wednesday, citing an anonymous source. Choe, who took the job in June 2014, was executed by firing squad in May after…

AFP, BEIRUT: At least eight civilians, including five children, were killed in US-led air strikes on a weapons depot belonging to a rebel group allied with Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, a monitor said Wednesday. The overnight raid hit the Atmeh region of the northwest Idlib province and also killed…

AFP, NEW YORK: A set of behind-the-scenes photographs from Princess Diana’s wedding to Prince Charles is going up for auction in Boston next month. The color and black and white images show Diana in her flowing white wedding gown interacting with her family in candid scenes away from the wedding…