WASHINGTON: Republican leaders have forged ahead with a health care replacement plan despite strong opposition from lawmakers within the party, highlighting the deep divisions surrounding US President Donald Trump's chief legislative priority, reports AFP. Two committees in the House of Representatives…

BRUSSELS: Poland threatened on Thursday to derail an EU summit on the bloc's post-Brexit future if leaders re-elect Donald Tusk as president despite Warsaw's opposition, reports AFP. German Chancellor Angela Merkel quickly hit back at efforts to block Polish ex-premier Tusk, saying he had wide…

SRINAGAR: A teenage boy and two militants were killed in a firefight with government forces in Indian-administered Kashmir on Thursday that brought hundreds of local villagers out onto the streets in defiance of police orders, reports AFP. Police said the firefight began after soldiers and police cordoned…

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court has ordered the government to open an investigation into online "blasphemy", threatening to ban social media networks if they failed to censor content deemed insulting to Islam, lawyers said Thursday, reports AFP. The issue came to the fore in January when five…

KUALA LUMPUR: The UN's World Food Programme said two of its Malaysian staff left North Korea Thursday after Kuala Lumpur and Pyongyang banned each other's citizens from leaving their countries in a row over the murder of Kim Jong-Nam, reports AFP. "The staff members are international civil…