AUSTIN: A package exploded early yesterday at a FedEx distribution facility in Texas, news reports said, following a series of other blasts in Austin in recent weeks that police had attributed to a serial bomber, reports AFP. The parcel exploded at a facility in the town of Schertz, in the San Antonio…

BEIRUT: A monitor said yesterday three dozen pro-government fighters were killed in a district of Syria’s capital as Islamic State jihadists took control of it in a surprise nighttime attack, reports AFP. There was no immediate comment from the government on the report by the Syrian Observatory…

ISLAMABAD: Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on Pakistan to resolve hundreds of cases of enforced disappearances for which “no one has ever been held accountable”, reports AFP. “Disappearances are a tool of terror... if committed as part of a widespread or systematic…

PARIS: France may have broken international law by providing weapons and technical help to Saudi Arabia and the UAE which are fighting Huthi rebels in Yemen, a report commissioned by rights groups said yesterday, reports AFP. The report by Paris law firm Ancile said France was in all probability continuing…

MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin said he would address disputes with the West after an election that saw him return to the Kremlin with a record vote share, as Moscow faces increasing isolation, reports AFP. International leaders were slow to congratulate the Russian president, with Donald Trump yet to comment…

BEIJING: China has announced it is building the world’s fastest wind tunnel to develop a new generation of super-fast airplanes, but it could also be used for hypersonic missile technology, reports AFP. Wind tunnels test how air will pass over a solid object, helping designers improve aerodynamics…