AFP, WASHINGTON: US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen urged Washington Tuesday to reject Turkey’s efforts to extradite him and rejected as “ridiculous”…

Hashim Ansari, the oldest litigant in the Ramjanmbhoomi-Babri Masjid case that over the years has become a flashpoint for Hindu-Muslim tensions, died…

AFP, UNITED NATIONS: After months of public campaigning, debates and open hearings, Security Council ambassadors huddle behind closed doors on Thursday to begin secret voting for a new secretary-general to lead the world body. The 15 council members including the powerful permanent five—Britain,…

AFP, WUERZBURG, Germany: German authorities have cast doubt on whether a teenager who went on an axe rampage on a Bavarian train was really an Afghan refugee, saying Wednesday he might have been from Pakistan. The Islamic State group released a video on Tuesday purportedly featuring the 17-year-old,…

AFP, BAMAKO: Seventeen soldiers were killed and 35 wounded in central Mali Tuesday in an assault on their base that authorities called a “coordinated terrorist attack”. “The toll has increased: we have lost 17 men and 35 are wounded,” Mali’s defence minister Tieman Hubert…

AFP, LONDON: Britain will no longer take on the rotating EU presidency as planned next year, relinquishing the role in the wake of the Brexit vote, Prime Minister Theresa May’s office said Wednesday. May informed European Council president Donald Tusk in a phone call on Tuesday evening, their…

AFP, PARIS: Three French soldiers have been killed in Libya, the defence ministry said Wednesday, in the first official confirmation that France has troops in the country. “Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian regrets the loss of three French officers who died while on mission in Libya,”…

AFP, BEIRUT: A video circulated on social media Tuesday depicts rebel fighters beheading a boy after capturing him north of Syria’s second city Aleppo, a monitor said. The video shows the boy laying in the back of a truck when a fighter begins to cut off his head with a small knife. One fighter…

AFP, PARIS: People with bowel cancer may improve their survival chances by eating a lot of omega 3 fatty acids found in oily fish like tuna and salmon, a study suggested Wednesday. Analysis of data from more than 170,000 people in the United States revealed that among 1,659 who developed bowel cancer,…