MOGADISHU: At least seven people were killed and 10 wounded on Wednesday when a car bomb exploded at a restaurant near the Somali ministry of internal…

GENEVA: Some victims of a suspected chemical attack in Syria have symptoms consistent with exposure to a category of chemicals that includes nerve agents, the World Health Organisation said Wednesday, reports AFP. The UN health agency said the deadly attack in Idlib province Tuesday appeared to have…

MOSCOW: Russia said Wednesday that a UN resolution put forward by Britain, France and the United States on a suspected chemical attack in Syria was "unacceptable", after deflecting blame from its ally Damascus, reports AFP. "The text as presented is categorically unacceptable," foreign…

Beijing: China criticised India on Wednesday for allowing the Dalai Lama to visit a disputed border region, saying it did not consider the matter a purely internal Indian affair and warning it would damage bilateral relations, reports AP. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters that…

BAGHDAD: An attack by suicide bombers in the Iraqi city of Tikrit killed at least 31 people and wounded at least 42, army and police officers said on Wednesday, reports AFP. A police lieutenant colonel said the attack began when three militants opened fire in central Tikrit on Tuesday night. They later…

NEW DELHI: A Muslim man has died after he was attacked by hundreds of vigilantes while transporting cows in India, police said Wednesday, as tensions rose over the slaughter of an animal Hindus consider sacred, reports AFP. No arrests have yet been made, but police said they had registered a murder…

Lahore: A suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a vehicle carrying census workers in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six people - two data collectors and four soldiers who were escorting them, a government spokesman and police said, reports AP. The attack took place on the outskirts of…