As the biggest contributor to the UN, the United States expects respect for its decisions, US envoy Nikki Haley has said, adding that Washington will remember the day it was “singled out” for an attack, reports RT. Haley was speaking ahead of the UN vote on the status of Jerusalem, in a…

UNITED NATIONS, United States: Israel’s envoy to the United Nations vowed Thursday that his country would never be “driven” from Jerusalem…

Islamabad: Pakistan’s military and civilian leadership has reaffirmed the country’s commitment to maintaining “full spectrum” nuclear deterrence and reiterated the robustness of its nuclear safeguards, reports Al Jazeera. Pakistan’s National Command Authority (NCA), which…

ASTANA, Kazakhstan: Major powerbrokers agreed yesterday to hold a peace congress for Syria in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi in late January in a bid to speed up a political settlement for the war-torn country, reports AFP. Sochi will host a “congress of national dialogue on Syria”…

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: A suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed Humvee into a police compound in Afghanistan yesterday, killing at least six officers and destroying a building, officials said, reports AFP. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the pre-dawn attack on the Maiwand district police headquarters…

LOS ANGELES: She started the year leading the chorus of opprobrium against President Donald Trump but 12 months on Meryl Streep, multiple Oscar-winner…

London: British passports will change from burgundy to blue after Britain leaves the EU, the Home Office has said, reports BBC. Immigration Minister Brandon…

Hyderabad: Police in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad say they have arrested a man after a woman was burned to death during an argument, reports BBC. Sandhya Rani, a 25-year-old receptionist, was on her way home when she was attacked at about 18:00 local time (12:30 GMT) on Thursday, police told…

Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the international community to teach the United States “a good lesson” in an upcoming UN General Assembly vote on Washington’s controversial decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reports Al Jazeera. Erdogan’s…

DHARWAD, India: He is still too young to talk, but a two-year-old Indian boy has become a modern-day Mowgli and a subject of local intrigue after befriending…