AFP, THE HAGUE: Malaysia on Friday reopened a decades-old dispute with Singapore calling on the UN’s top court to overturn a 2008 ruling granting its neighbour sovereignty over a tiny but strategic island. In a filing to the International Court of Justice, Kuala Lumpur maintained new documents…

AFP, PARIS: Art lovers returned to the Louvre in Paris on Saturday, 24 hours after a soldier shot a machete-wielding attacker at the museum, believed to be an Egyptian who entered the country a week ago. The incident on Friday thrust security and the terror threat back into the limelight three months…

AFP, WASHINGTON: Neil Gorsuch, nominated this week by President Donald Trump to fill a vacant seat on America’s highest court, faces an epic confirmation…

AFP, KABUL: The UN Security Council has lifted sanctions on the notorious Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, previously branded “a global terrorist”…

AP, New York: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says an Iranian infant banned from entering the United States for life-saving heart surgery under President Donald Trump’s order will now be allowed to travel to New York for the emergency procedure.Cuomo said Friday that Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Medical…

AFP, ADEN: Yemeni tribesmen on Saturday killed 13 Al-Qaeda fighters who had slipped back into a southern town hours after pulling out in the face of street protests, a security official said. The jihadists had reemerged during the night and sought to take control of public buildings in the Abyan province…

AFP, SRINAGAR, India: Two suspected rebels were killed Saturday in Indian-administered Kashmir in a firefight that broke out when government forces intercepted a vehicle they were travelling in, police said. Superintendent of police, Imtiyaz Hussain, said they had information that the militants were…