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BAGHDAD/ANKARA: At least 210 people were killed in Iran and Iraq on Sunday when a powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit the region, state media in the two countries said, as rescuers searched for dozens trapped under rubble. At least 207 people were killed in Iran, Behnam Saeedi, a spokesman for...

An earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale had hit northern part of Iraq, the US Geological Survey (USGS) says. The quake happened on Sunday, 103 kilometers (64 miles) southeast of the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah, it added. The USGS initially reported that the quake was of a magnitude 7.2...

DANANG, VIETNAM: US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin chatted on Saturday as they walked together for the “family photograph” at the APEC summit of Asia-Pacific leaders in Vietnam. Although the White House had said no official meeting was planned, the two also shook hands at a dinner...

NEW YORK: Daesh has claimed responsibility for a truck attack this week that killed eight people in the deadliest assault on New York City since Sept. 11, 2001. The militant group on Thursday described accused attacker Sayfullo Saipov, 29, as “one of the caliphate soldiers” in a weekly issue of...

MUMBAI: Daughter of the founder of the nation, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and Rattanbai Petit, Dina Wadia, passed away on Thursday at the age of 98. Dina Wadia, born August 15, 1919, was the only child of Quaid-e-Azam. She visited Pakistan in 2004, which was the second time she visited the country....

LONDON: One person died and two others were injured in a triple stabbing attack Monday night here at Parsons Green train station, British media reported. The deceased was reportedly in his early 20s. Police said the attack is not being treated as an act of terrorism and have cordoned off...

DOHA: A controversial member of Qatar's royal family said Saturday that Qatari authorities have frozen his bank accounts over his role in Doha's crisis with its neighbours. "The Qatari regime has honoured me by freezing all my bank accounts," Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali Al-Thani tweeted. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab...

Freed Canadian hostage Joshua Boyle accused his kidnappers of murdering his baby daughter and raping his wife during his family’s years-long captivity by the Haqqani network, a Taliban-affiliated group operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Boyle leveled the accusations in a terse statement he read on arrival in Toronto late Friday...

Fire officials reported further headway on Friday against devastating blazes in Northern California’s wine country but said the death toll of 32, already a record for the state, would likely climb higher with more than 250 people missing. Even as firefighters gained enough ground for authorities to consider letting some...

Kuwait's Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled al-Jarallah has voiced optimism regarding the efforts of the Kuwaiti Emir to solve the Gulf crisis, saying he believed the dispute would be settled before the GCC leaders' summit in December. Speaking to the official Kuwaiti news agency KUNA, al-Jarallah said Kuwait, the host, has...

A suspect who allegedly shot dead a Texas Tech University police officer Tuesday morning  at one of the campuses was apprehended almost an hour later, the institute's Twitter account said in an update. Earlier, it was reported that a Texas Tech University police officer was shot at by a suspect who...

ROME: The UN atomic agency chief on Monday affirmed Iran's commitment to a 2015 nuclear deal, in a statement that came as US President Donald Trump said Tehran was not living up to the "spirit" of the agreement. "I can state that the nuclear-related commitments undertaken by Iran under the...