TEHRAN: Iran’s Red Crescent said yesterday it has prepared an aid package for Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims as they flee a crackdown by security forces, local media reported. “An emergency, food, life support and hygiene package has been prepared by the Red Crescent to be sent to Myanmar,”…

LONDON: Britain's Prince George started his first day of school on Thursday but palace officials said his pregnant mother Kate was too unwell to attend…

Marigot: Powerful Hurricane Irma cut a swathe of deadly destruction as it roared through the Caribbean on Wednesday, claiming at least nine lives and…

London: The US has proposed a range of new United Nations sanctions against North Korea, including an oil ban and a freeze on leader Kim Jong-un's assets, reports BBC. The draft resolution circulated to the Security Council members comes after North Korea's sixth nuclear test and repeated missile…

MUMBAI: An Indian court Thursday sentenced two men to death over bomb blasts in Mumbai two decades ago that killed more than 250 people, reports AFP. Firoz Abdul Rashid Khan and Tahir Merchant were convicted of conspiracy in the 1993 blasts and sentenced to death. "So far as the two death sentences…

WASHINGTON: Two high-intensity solar flares were emitted Wednesday, the second of which was the most intense recorded since the start of this sun cycle in December 2008, NASA said, reports AFP. These radiation flares, which can disrupt communications satellites, GPS and power grids by reaching the upper…

VLADIVOSTOK: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his South Korean counterpart on Thursday struggled to grind down Russian resistance to new sanctions on Pyongyang over its nuclear test as Vladimir Putin appeared to give little ground, reports AFP. The United States on Wednesday demanded that the…