BONN: The leaders of France and Germany will lead a diplomatic charge Wednesday to reinvigorate UN climate talks clouded by Washington's rejection of a planet rescue plan backed by the rest of the world, reports AFP. Despite announcing it will withdraw from the Paris Agreement, the United States…

KOUIK: Iranian survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed more than 400 people pleaded yesterday for water, tents and other emergency supplies as aid trickled into remote villages near the Iraqi border, reports AFP. The government ordered rescuers to keep searching for people trapped under the rubble…

RANCHO TEHAMA RESERVE, United States: Four people were killed and nearly a dozen wounded, including two children, when a gunman went on a rampage Tuesday, randomly picking his targets at a school and other locations in rural northern California, reports AFP. Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston…

ASHGABAT: A road and rail corridor connecting war-torn Afghanistan with Turkey and Europe was signed off by officials from five countries yesterday in Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat, reports AFP. The so-called Lapis Lazuli corridor agreement is the product of more than five years of talks involving…

SEOUL: North Korea's state media yesterday slammed Donald Trump for insulting leader Kim Jong-Un, saying the US president deserved the death penalty and calling him a coward for cancelling a visit to the inter-Korean border, reports AFP. An editorial in the ruling party newspaper Rodong Sinmun focused…