MUMBAI: Indian police have filed a defamation case against a group of comedians accused of insulting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the latest incident to raise fears over creative freedoms in the country, reports AFP. A spokeswoman for the Mumbai police said on Friday that the force had registered a…

RAMALLAH: Israeli security forces detained Jerusalem’s top Islamic cleric as crowds gathered in the Old City following an attack Friday near a highly…

WASHINGTON: Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said Friday he cannot confirm whether or not Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead, after reports from Syria that the jihadist leader had been killed, reports AFP. “If we knew, we would tell you—right now, I can’t confirm or deny it,”…

GENEVA: More than a million people were displaced from Mosul by the battle in the Iraqi city against the Islamic State group, but nearly 200,000 have returned home, the UN said yesterday, reports AFP. Out of nearly 1.05 million people who fled the fighting after the offensive against IS began last October,…

JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia on Friday hailed the Iraq government’s recapture of Mosul city from Islamic State group jihadists, stressing its solidarity with Baghdad in combating “terrorism” despite their rocky relations, reports AFP. The kingdom “congratulates the Iraqi government and…

WASHINGTON: Signed with pomp and fanfare on July 14, 2015, the Iranian nuclear agreement was heralded as a triumph for American diplomacy and international…

TIZAYUCA: Masked men burst into a children’s party in central Mexico and hacked 11 people to death, authorities and witnesses said Thursday, in the violence-plagued country’s latest mass murder, reports AFP. Police found the gory scene when they responded to an emergency call received just…