London: Russia and Belarus have launched a large-scale joint military exercise, called Zapad-2017, which has made nearby Nato countries nervous, reports…

NASIRIYAH: At least 50 people including Iranians were killed Thursday in twin gun and car bomb attacks near the city of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq, local officials said, reports AFP. "The toll has now reached 50 dead and 87 wounded," Abdel Hussein al-Jabri, deputy health chief for the mainly…

LONDON: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson discussed the need to boost pressure on North Korea in talks with Prime Minister Theresa May in London on Thursday where the Iran nuclear deal was also raised, reports AFP. The two discussed North Korea's "destabilising activities" and the importance…

LUCKNOW: At least 20 people died on Thursday when a boat packed with labourers capsized on the Yamuna River in northern India, an official said, reports AFP. Twenty bodies have been recovered, Dharam Pal Singh, additional magistrate of Baghpat district in Uttar Pradesh state, told AFP. "It appears…

HANOI: Vietnam on Thursday ordered tens of thousands of people to evacuate its central coastal area as Typhoon Doksuri closed in, with officials predicting the storm could be the most powerful in a decade, reports AFP. Doksuri is expected to make landfall in Vietnam midday Friday, packing heavy winds…

SRINAGAR: Government forces in Indian-administered Kashmir killed a top Pakistan-based Islamist militant on Thursday blamed for the murder of eight Hindu…

SHANGHAI: The world's oldest captive giant panda has died at the ripe old age of 37 -- more than 100 in human years -- her handlers in China said…

MIAMI: Eight residents died at a Florida nursing home which has been without power since Hurricane Irma and the state governor vowed a full investigation Wednesday into what he called an "unfathomable" event, reports AFP. The nursing home deaths brought the total number of storm-related fatalities…