MADRID: The speaker of Catalonia’s sacked parliament appeared before Spain’s Supreme Court yesterday in the latest legal case brought against…

TOKYO: Three US aircraft carriers will stage joint drills in the western Pacific for the first time in a decade, the US Navy said yesterday, as tensions in the region over North Korea reach fever pitch, reports AFP. The USS Ronald Reagan, USS Nimitz and USS Theodore Roosevelt will conduct “coordinated…

CHICAGO: Former US president Barack Obama answered a jury summons Wednesday, but was dismissed soon after arriving at a Chicago courthouse to perform the civic duty asked of all Americans, reports AFP. As a prospective juror, Obama joined fellow citizens at Cook County’s Daley Center courthouse,…

MAZAR-E-SHARIF: Twelve militants were killed and six others wounded in a cordon operation in northern Afghanistan’s Balkh province, a local official said yesterday, reports Xinhua. “Among the killed militants were Taliban shadow district governor of Chamtal—Mullah Gulnabi, an insurgents’…