WASHINGTON: Donald Trump, just back from his first international trip as US president, geared up to combat concerns Sunday over aides' ties to Russia including explosive reports that his son-in-law sought a secret communications line with Moscow, reports AFP. The latest furor was stirred up…

 TEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei launched a fierce attack against regional rival Saudi Arabia, saying it was being pumped "like a milking cow" by "infidel" Americans, reports AFP. "These people (the Saudis) appear to believe in the Koran... but…

KABUL: At least 15 members of a single family were killed when a pickup truck veered off the road and plunged into a river in northern Afghanistan, officials said, reports AFP. Women and children were among the dead after Saturday's accident on the main highway between Parwan and Kabul, which is…

SRINAGAR: Authorities clamped a curfew across most of Indian-administered Kashmir for the first day of the Muslim Ramadan festival Sunday and partially cut telephone services to thwart protests over the killing of a top rebel commander, reports AFP.The lockdown in the mainly Muslim region crippled life…

London: The mother of a US man who died protecting two young women from anti-Muslim harassment has called him "a hero" who "will remain a hero" after his death, reports BBC. Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche was one of two men who were stabbed to death on a train on Friday in Portland,…

MARAWI: Islamist militants locked in street-to-street battles with security forces in a southern Philippine city have killed 19 civilians, the military…