AFP, NAGATO, Japan: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bunkered down for talks Thursday to try and resolve a territorial…

Britain’s fertility regulator yesterday gave the green light for the country to become the first in the world to legally offer “three-parent…

AFP, ADEN: Al-Qaeda in Yemen has labelled the rival jihadist Islamic State group “deviant” and distanced itself from an IS-claimed suicide attack in Aden last week that killed dozens of soldiers. “We explicitly declare that we were not involved in any way in this operation,”…

AFP, Gauhati: Heavily armed rebels on Thursday killed four Indian police officers in an ambush on a highway they were guarding hours before the visit of the top elected official of an insurgency-wracked northeastern state, police said. Another three officers were wounded in the attack in Lokchao area…

AP, Washington: In an unexpected reversal, President Barack Obama declined to sign a renewal of sanctions against Iran but let it become law anyway, in an apparent bid to alleviate Tehran’s concerns that the U.S. is backsliding on the nuclear deal. Although the White House had said that Obama…