AFP, MAZAR-I-SHARIF: Unknown gunmen yesterday killed 13 minority Hazaras travelling in two vehicles in a usually tranquil northern Afghan province, as President Ashraf Ghani implored international donors for renewed support to the “wounded country”. The victims, all male passengers, were…

AFP,  WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman held a long-delayed first White House summit Friday marked by warm…

AFP, JERUSALEM: Nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu, still barred from leaving Israel more than a decade after completing an 18-year-jail term, said…

AFP, BONN: Negotiators from 195 nations tasked with crafting a universal climate pact are driven by twin fears tugging in opposite directions, which may result in a hollow deal, say analysts. The all-too-real prospect of climate catastrophe on a horizon of decades, not centuries, coupled with a rising…

AFP, BEIRUT: At least 15 Syrian Christians who had been held by the Islamic State group in the central village of Al-Qaryatain were released Friday, monitoring groups said. “A group of 15 Christians who had been under house arrest by IS in Al-Qaryatain were released and arrived in Fayrouzah,”…

AFP, LONDON: The BBC plans to launch a radio news service for broadcast into North Korea as part of an expansion of its World Service offering, a source told AFP on Saturday. The state broadcaster also wants to offer new and expanded services to Russia, Africa, India and the Middle East, added the source…

AFP, DUSHANBE, Tajikistan: Thirteen militants were killed yesterday in Tajikistan, a day after their armed group allegedly carried out deadly attacks on police, the interior ministry said. The operation by both the army and police follows Friday attacks that saw eight policemen and nine militants killed…

AFP, LONDON: The world’s shortest man, as verified by the Guinness Book of Records, has died of an undisclosed illness in American Samoa, a hospital spokeswoman said Friday. Nepal’s Chandra Bahadur Dangi, who was 21.5 inches tall (54.6 cm), died late Thursday at the Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical…