BRUSSELS: The European Commission said yesterday that a Brexit transition period during which Britain must obey EU rules should last until the end of…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called for strengthening the BJP at its roots for a win in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and also pitched for promoting young faces inside and outside the party, reports PTI. Addressing the BJP parliamentary party here, Modi pushed for promoting the new generation…

MAARSHURIN, Syria: Overnight air strikes killed 19 civilians, seven of them children, in a residential district of a town in northwestern Syria, a monitor said yesterday, reports AFP. “Suspected Russian air strikes targeted several houses in Maarshurin,” a rebel-held town in Idlib province,…

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: Israeli forces arrested a third Palestinian woman yesterday in connection with a viral video showing Israeli soldiers being slapped in the occupied West Bank, reports AFP. Soldiers arrested Nour Naji Tamimi, 21, from the village of Nabi Saleh north of Ramallah in the…

MIAMI: Fierce hurricanes, heat waves, floods and wildfires ravaged the planet in 2017, as scientists said the role of climate change in causing or worsening certain natural disasters has grown increasingly clear, reports AFP. It was also the year the world’s second largest polluter, the United…

ZURICH: Total economic losses from natural and man-made disasters have soared by 63 percent to strike an estimated $306 billion in 2017, reinsurance firm Swiss Re said yesterday, reports AFP. “The US was hardest hit, including by hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, which have made 2017 the second…

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Theresa May spoke for the first time since a row over his retweets of a British extremist group,…

NEW DELHI: India yesterday unveiled a new weapon against air pollution—an “anti-smog gun” which authorities hope will clear the skies…

This combination of pictures created on Tuesday shows Syrians covering one eye with their hands in the rebel-held town of Douma in Syria's besieged…