India yesterday welcomed the United States’ blacklisting of Kashmiri separatist group Hizbul Mujahideen as a terrorist organization, reports AFP. The US Treasury Department, in a statement on its website Wednesday, said it listed the Pakistan-based outfit as a “foreign terrorist organisation”,…

NASA yesterday launched the latest in a series of satellites aimed at ensuring astronauts at the International Space Station can communicate with Earth, reports AFP. The $408 million Boeing-made Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-M) soared into space atop an Atlas V rocket that launched from Cape…

A South Korean soldier was killed yesterday and six others injured in an explosion during an artillery firing drill, reports said, reports AFP. Seven servicemen were taken to hospital after the blast at a shooting range in Cherwon, on the border with North Korea, the South’s Yonhap news agency…

Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, under house arrest for six years, ended his hunger strike late Thursday after the government agreed to remove intelligence agents from his home, reports AFP. However, his demand to face trial—he has never been charged since being placed under house arrest…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday called on Turks living in Germany not to vote for the two parties in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling grand coalition or the Greens in next month’s legislative elections, calling them “enemies of Turkey”, reports AFP. Upping the stakes…

Forest fires cut off a village of 2,000 people in Portugal, as firefighters struggled Thursday to control two major blazes in the centre of the country, local officials said, reports AFP. And with another wave of hot weather forecast, the government declared a state of emergency in some central and…