AFP, PARIS: French police shot dead a knife-wielding man Thursday as he attacked a police station in Paris, a year to the day since jihadist gunmen killed 12 people at Charlie Hebdo newspaper. The man reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) and was wearing what appeared to be…

AFP, SRINAGAR: Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, chief minister of India’s restive Kashmir region and one of the country’s best-known Muslim politicians, died on Thursday, an official said. The 79-year-old, whose party is in a controversial coalition with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu…

AFP, WASHINGTON: Two Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred from the US military prison to Ghana, the Pentagon said Wednesday, bringing the controversial facility’s remaining population down to 105. Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih al-Dhuby, both from Yemen, are…

AFP, SEOUL: South Korea said Thursday it would resume propaganda broadcasts into North Korea, a tactic that prompted Pyongyang to threaten military strikes when it was last employed during a cross-border crisis last year. The decision to resume the high-decibel broadcasts using massive batteries of…

SAN FRANCISCO:  A US judge has ruled that a macaque monkey who snapped grinning selfies that went viral last year online does not own the copyright to the photographs. Activist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals brought the case in San Francisco on behalf of Indonesian simian Naruto,…

AFP, ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is mulling upgrading the constitutional status of its northern Gilgit-Baltistan region, which is also claimed by India, in a…