AP, Beijing: The foreign ministers of China and Iran have urged countries not to violate the Iranian nuclear deal, in remarks apparently directed at President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in Beijing on Monday that each of the…

AFP, CHENNAI, India: Authorities in southern India put police on high alert Monday, fearing an outbreak of civil unrest after one of the country’s most popular leaders Jayalalithaa Jayaram suffered a cardiac arrest.Doctors treating the 68-year-old former film star, who enjoys an almost god-like…

AFP, BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan: Uzbekistan’s interim leader Shavkat Mirziyoyev has won a crushing victory to become the country’s second-ever president following the death of long-reigning strongman Islam Karimov, official results showed Monday. The Central Election Commission said Mirziyoyev…

AP, Makhmur: The sand berms and trenches that snake across northern Iraq stretch toward Syria, some accompanied by newly paved roads lit by street lamps…

AP, Moscow: A retrial of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for embezzlement begins in the provincial city of Kirov after the original 2013 guilty verdict was overturned by the Supreme Court. Lawyers for Navalny asked the court on Monday to throw out the case in which he is accused of stealing…

AFP, LONDON: The government of Prime Minister Theresa May will on Monday seek to overturn a ruling that it must obtain parliamentary approval before triggering Brexit, in a highly-charged case in Britain’s highest court.For the first time ever, all 11 Supreme Court judges will convene for the…

AFP, KARACHI: A pre-dawn inferno at a four-star hotel in Pakistan’s Karachi killed 11 people Monday and wounded 75, police said, with desperate guests jumping from windows and scrambling down knotted bedsheets to escape.The blaze at the Regent Plaza Hotel in the centre of the port megacity broke…