TEHRAN: Some 700 people were killed over the Persian new year on roads in Iran, which are among the deadliest in the world despite Islamic leaders declaring bad driving a sin, reports AFP. The two-week break for Nowruz that ended at the weekend actually saw a 12-percent improvement on last year's…

ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin Tuesday condemned a suspected chemical attack in northwestern Syria as an "inhuman" strike that could endanger peace talks based in the Kazakh capital, reports AFP."President Erdogan…

STOCKHOLM: A Muslim elementary school in Sweden, which separated boys and girls on a bus and during sports lessons, sparked controversy on Tuesday with the prime minister condemning it as "despicable", reports AFP. As part of a documentary, Swedish broadcaster TV4 filmed secret footage of…

BRUSSELS: The regime of Bashar al-Assad bears "primary responsibility" for a suspected chemical attack that killed at least 58 people in a rebel-held town in Syria, EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini said Tuesday, reports AFP. "Today the news is awful," Mogherini said in an interview…

MOSCOW: Two traffic police were killed in an attack by radical Islamists in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan, the regional governor said Tuesday, the day after a suicide bomber allegedly hit the Saint Petersburg metro, reports AFP. "Last night, a group of radical Islamists... carried out…

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's powerful trade union federation Cosatu, a key coalition partner of the ruling ANC, on Tuesday called for embattled President Jacob Zuma to resign following a deeply unpopular cabinet reshuffle, reports AFP. Union general secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali said it was time…