AFP, GENEVA: chief Ban Ki-moon said he was "deeply dismayed" by Saudi Arabia's execution of 47 people including a prominent Shiite cleric, whose death sparked violent protests in Iran, a spokesman said Saturday. Nimr al-Nimr, the executed cleric who spent more than a decade studying theology…

AFP, Istanbul: Turkish coastguards rescued 57 migrants seeking to reach EU member Greece by sea after they were stranded on a rocky islet in the Aegean Sea, official media said Sunday. The migrants were trying to reach the Greek island of Lesbos but their boat hit trouble after leaving the resort of…

AFP, LOD: A court charged two Israelis on Sunday over a firebombing last year that killed a Palestinian couple and their toddler, in an attack that sparked condemnation globally. The charges are the first step in a legal case whose slow progress rights groups have criticised. They come more than five…

PTI, Washington: US President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clintons policies "created ISIS", leading Republican presidential aspirant Donald Trump has alleged. Trump, while speaking at a campaign stop in Biloxi, Mississippi, offered no evidence for his claim in which…

AFP, BERLIN: Commissioner Gunther Oettinger on Sunday threatened to put Poland on notice for infringing on common European values by passing legislation giving the government control of the state media. The move would start a series of steps that, if the law remains in place, could eventually see Warsaw…

AFP, TEGUCIGALAPA: The United States has requested the extradition of former Honduran vice president Jaime Rosenthal, one of the country's biggest tycoons, whom it accuses of drug trafficking and money laundering, Tegucigalpa said Saturday. The US Treasury Department announced in October that it…

AFP, SUVA: Fiji warned residents to brace for destructive winds on Sunday as severe tropical cyclone Ula bears down on the Pacific nation. Meteorologists reported the category three storm had maintained its intensity after forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes on Saturday in neighbouring Tonga.…