The United Arab Emirates summoned on Sunday a senior US diplomat to protest the “abusive treatment” of a UAE citizen as it advised citizens to avoid wearing national attire abroad, reports AFP. The foreign ministry expressed “discontent” to US embassy deputy chief of mission…

Malaysian police said yesterday a recent hand grenade attack on a restaurant was linked to the Islamic State group, after initially saying the incident was not terror related , reports AFP. “There were elements of IS involvement in the attack,” national police chief Khalid Abu Bakar told…

Australia's opposition Labor Party urged Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to resign Monday, calling him the "David Cameron of the southern hemisphere" after he failed to secure an emphatic election victory, reports AFP. Millionaire former banker Turnbull took the country to the ballot boxes…

A man convicted of killing 18 people when he set a public bus on fire in China has been sentenced to death, authorities said, reports AFP. Ma Yongping, 34, in January set alight the bus in Yinchuan, capital of the remote northern region of Ningxia, leaving 18 people dead and another 32 injured. He was…

A senior Hong Kong delegation will head to Beijing for talks following explosive revelations by a bookseller who said he was detained for eight months on the mainland, the city’s leader said yesterday, reports AFP. Lam Wing-kee, 61, has said he was seized after crossing the border into the southern…

Israel on Sunday barred the Hebron governor from entering its territory after he visited the family of a Palestinian who killed a US-Israeli teenage girl in her sleep, officials said, reports AFP. On Thursday, 19-year-old Mohammed Nasser Tarayra broke into the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba in the…

A Russian couple from Fiji are thought to have been murdered and dismembered after human body parts washed up on a beach in the Pacific island nation, reports AFP . The Fiji Sun said two pairs of feet wrapped in netting and weighed down with stones were found on June 24 at Natadola beach, a popular…

Search teams have recovered more human remains from the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean in May, the Egyptian-led investigative committee said Sunday, reports AFP. The search vessel John Lethbridge “retrieved all the human remains that were mapped at the crash location,”…