TUNIS: A Tunisian policeman died Thursday a day after he was stabbed by an Islamist extremist outside parliament in a bustling part of the capital Tunis, the authorities said, reports AFP. Commander Riadh Barrouta, who was knifed in the neck in Wednesday’s attack, “has died”, interior…

TOKYO: Sexual harassment of women should “never be tolerated”, Ivanka Trump told an audience in Tokyo yesterday, calling for women to be treated…

TEHRAN: Iran has accused the CIA of spreading “fake news” about the Islamic republic with newly declassified files seized in the 2011 raid in Pakistan in which Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed, reports AFP. The CIA on Wednesday released 470,000 additional files found in May 2011…

SRINAGAR: Two Indian army troops and a militant were killed in an overnight gunfight in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said yesterday, reports Xinhua. The gunfight broke out late Thursday evening after contingents of troops and police cordoned off village Samboora in Pulwama district, 28…

JAKARTA: A new species of orangutan has been discovered in the remote jungles of Indonesia, immediately becoming the world’s most endangered great…

NEW DELHI: Four Indian police officers were suspended on Friday after it emerged they had refused to help a woman who had just been gang raped, mocked her and accused her of inventing her story. The 19-year-old student, who cannot be named, went to police after she was repeatedly raped by four men outside…

MOSCOW: Russia is boosting aviation infrastructure in the Arctic and will further increase its air defences there, the commander of the country’s…