MAIDUGURI: Farmers and fishermen displaced by Boko Haram violence in northeast Nigeria want to return home, saying it will help ease chronic food shortages for the remote region's starving millions, reports AFP. Subsistence agriculture is a lifeline in the northeast but the eight-year Islamist insurgency…

BEIRUT: US-backed Syrian fighters said they had seized a second district of Raqa on Sunday and launched a renewed assault on a base north of the city,…

London: Iran has sent five planeloads of food to Qatar, which is suffering shortages amid a regional blockade, reports BBC.  A number of nations, including Iran's major rival Saudi Arabia, last week cut ties with Qatar, accusing it of funding terrorism, charges it denies. The land border with…

WASHINGTON: Jeff Sessions, a longtime senator until President Donald Trump picked him as US attorney general, heads to Congress this coming week when…

SYDNEY: Australia's largest state Sunday said it was building a separate prison wing for extremist inmates to tackle radicalisation following a rise in homegrown attacks, reports AFP. New South Wales, home to about a third of Australia's 24-million-strong population, has been the site of two…

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police have arrested a key figure from an extremist Buddhist organisation blamed for a series of hate crimes against Muslims that has drawn international censure, reports AFP. The 32-year-old man from the radical Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), or Buddhist Force, is the first suspect to be…