Gunmen in Mexico’s Veracruz state shot dead four men on Sunday hours after police killed an alleged criminal elsewhere in the region and another man was kidnapped at church, authorities said, reports AFP. Three armed men stormed into a nightclub called La Madame in the regional capital Xalapa…

India is to open a $500-million line of credit to develop Iran’s Chabahar port into a regional trading hub, visiting Indian PM Narendra Modi said yesterday in Tehran, reports AFP. “Based on mutual contracts, the development of Chabahar (southeast) and its infrastructure, and allocating $500…

Iran yesterday denied reports that Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour entered Pakistan from the Islamic republic before being killed in a US drone strike, state media reported. Pakistani security officials told AFP on Sunday that the man killed on Saturday in the southwestern province of Balochistan,…