Kabul: The Taliban killed 13 police in an attack on a checkpoint early Sunday in the northern Kunduz province, an official said, reports AP. Hayatullah Ameri, chief of the Khan Abad district, near where the attack took place, says only one policeman escaped the battle alive. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah…

Jerusalem: Under pressure from the United States, Israel has delayed a bill that would connect a number of West Bank settlements to Jerusalem, officials…

BANGKOK: A year of official mourning for Thailand's late King Bhumibol Adulyadej ends Sunday after a lavish five-day funeral embroidered with pageantry and religious ritual, reports AFP. Bhumibol, a beloved king who died last October aged 88, was cremated on Thursday after a day charged with emotion…

PRAGUE: At least three people died in a windstorm that hit central Europe on Sunday, causing widespread power outages and traffic disruptions, rescuers…

Mogadishu: A suicide truck bomb exploded outside a popular hotel in Somalia's capital on Saturday, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than…

TEHRAN: Iran's president on Sunday said his country would continue building weapons including developing missiles as the United States prepares new sanctions over its ballistic missile programme, reports AFP. "To defend our nation and territorial integrity, we will build all the weapons we…

London: Iraqi Kurdish president Massoud Barzani is to resign, reports say, as the fallout from the region's independence referendum continues, reports…

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Sunday accused Iran of blocking peace efforts in Yemen, slamming its political archrival over support for the Yemeni rebels Riyadh is fighting against, reports AFP. Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir accused Tehran of smuggling arms to Yemen's Shiite Huthi rebels, who…