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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has found it highly disrespectful that he was served desserts in shoes during a meal with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week. A Japanese diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Monday that Abe and his wife, Akie Abe, found it absolutely disrespectful when they saw...

UTTAR PRADESH: Tensions surrounding the missing portrait of Quaid-e-Azam have escalated with students of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) protesting outside a police station over the missing portrait. Yesterday, the portrait had gone missing just two days after the university received threats by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker Satish Gautam. The...

Lightning strikes and powerful dust storms across India have killed at least 116 people and injured more than 250 as meteorologists warned Thursday of more wild weather on the horizon. Dust clouds plunged swathes of north India into darkness as winds of more than 130 kilometres per hour (80 miles...

Explosion in Stamford Hill: A street bonfire to celebrate a Jewish holiday erupted “like a bomb” leaving 10 people injured, shocked witnesses said. Seven of the injured were taken to hospital after the blast sent a fireball into the crowd at the Lag BaOmer event in Stamford Hill last night. Witnesses...

Eight journalists were among 29 people killed in a suicide attack in Kabul Monday, including a famed photographer who had written of the dangers of reporting in the Afghan capital. The journalists died when a bomber disguised as a TV cameraman detonated a second bomb at the site of an...

Yemen’s Houthi movement fired ballistic missiles at what it called “economic and vital targets” in the southern Saudi province of Jizan on Saturday, and Saudi authorities said a man was killed by debris from the projectiles. The attack appeared to be retaliation promised by Yemen’s dominant political faction in a...

Air strikes by a Saudi-led military coalition killed at least 20 people attending a wedding in a village in northwestern Yemen late on Sunday, residents and medical sources said. The head of Al Jumhouri hospital in Hajjah told Reuters by telephone that the hospital had received 40 bodies, most of...

LONDON: Kate, the wife of Britain’s Prince William, gave birth to the royal couple's third child on Monday. The Kensington Palace, in a tweet, confirmed that the Duchess of Cambridge had safely delivered a son at 1101 hours. The Duke of Cambridge was present for the birth of the couple's third...

Kabul bombing - At least 57 people have been killed and more than 100 others were wounded in a suicide bombing in the Afghan capital Kabul. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a voter registration centre in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, killing at least 57 people and...

INDORE:  An eight-month-old girl, fast asleep next to her parents in Indore, was taken away and raped in an empty basement just 200 metres away in the early hours of Friday. The accused, spotted on a CCTV camera carrying the baby on his shoulder, also killed the child after committing the crime,...

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov criticised on Friday the brutal Israeli killing of peaceful Palestinian boy in Gaza. “It is OUTRAGEOUS to shoot at children!” he wrote on his twitter account after the Israeli occupation forces had shot dead the 14-year-old Palestinian boy Mohammed Ayoub in...

SEOUL: North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un announced Friday night his country will carry out no more nuclear or intercontinental ballistic missile tests and will shut down its atomic test site, the North's state media reported Saturday. The declaration, long sought by the US, will be seen as a crucial...