AFP, MOSCOW: Russian air strikes have killed at least 30 jihadists in rebel-held Idlib province in northwestern Syria, the defence ministry said in a statement on Thursday. The strikes, which began on Tuesday, were part of a major operation against jihadists in Idlib and Homs which saw the first missions…

AFP, KARACHI: Camped on the baking concrete outside a gleaming transplant centre, Karachi’s sick have come from miles around in desperate hope for…

AFP, ROME: Around 100 people are missing feared drowned in the Mediterranean after a migrant dinghy capsized off Libya, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Thursday, citing testimony from 27 survivors. “The 27 men now on board the Argos were on board a boat carrying 130 people. They are the only…

AP, Washington: The Obama administration is announcing baseline specifications for smart-gun technology. The announcement Wednesday comes out of the executive action taken in January by President Barack Obama to curb gun violence. The specifications were developed by the Justice Department’s National…

AFP, DUBAI: Human Rights Watch accused Yemeni rebels on Thursday of arbitrarily detaining, torturing and forcibly disappearing opponents since they overran the capital in September 2014. The group said it had documented two deaths in custody and 11 cases of alleged torture, one of of a child. It said…

AFP, ISTANBUL: Turkey is to scrap the office of the prime minister in a historic switch under a government-backed proposal for a new presidential system, a cabinet minister said on Thursday. Forestry and Water Affairs Minister Veysel Eroglu said there would be one and possibly two vice presidents under…

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has offered to take in the world’s refugees at a time many Western countries are closing their borders for those displaced, reports www .aljazeera.com. An estimated 1.8m people became refugees in 2015 as the world witnessed a 300 percent increase in the number…