AFP, DALLAS: President Barack Obama on Saturday gave a mocking rebuke of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump for his incendiary language on the campaign trail. At a Democratic party fundraising event in Dallas, Texas, Obama offered a blunt condemnation of the “divisiveness” fomented by Trump…

Xinhua, BEIJING: China’s judicial authorities said Sunday that the country will continue to maintain “high pressure” on corruption as…

AFP, ISLAMABAD: The death toll from torrential rain in Pakistan rose to 28 on Sunday after more homes collapsed in the southwest and northwest, officials said. They said 17 people lost their lives over the past three days in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, while six died in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…

AFP, BORDEAUX: A set of three Buddha sculptures from the 15th-century Ming dynasty went under the hammer in France on Saturday for more than 6.2 million euros, over 10 times the estimated sale price, the auction house said, in a flourishing market for Chinese art. An Asian collector snapped up the three…

AFP, BAGHDAD: The Islamic State group on Sunday pulled its fighters out of Rutba, a desert town in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, an army general and the mayor said. The pullout, if confirmed, would be a rare case of the jihadists abandoning a position under no massive miliary pressure and suggests…

AFP, ADEN: At least 17 suspected Al-Qaeda members and two policemen have been killed in two days of clashes in Yemen’s Aden, the southern city serving as the government’s temporary base, security sources said Sunday. Clashes resumed Sunday after a short period of calm overnight in the central…

AFP, NEW DELHI: A bear killed two villagers and a wildlife officer sent to tranquilise it before being shot dead in a forest in central India, police said Sunday. The sloth bear mauled the villagers late on Saturday, sparking a police hunt for the beast after fearful locals in Chhattisgarh state demanded…