TURKEY: A Turkish imam was reportedly suspended after pieces of cucumber was found in his rectum after the doctors examined for severe abdominal pain. The 39-year-old imam hailing from the Central Anatolian province was admitted to hospital last week after ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin promised ever-closer cooperation and oversaw a series of deals on Saturday, as the two countries deepen ties in the face of growing tensions with the West. In what was Putin’s ...

Dawn breaks behind the Houses of Parliament and the statue of Winston Churchill in Westminster, London, Britain June 24, 2016. REUTERS LONDON: Britain has voted to leave the European Union, results from Thursday’s landmark referendum showed, an outcome that sets the ...

MOSCOW: With President Vladimir Putin heading to China this weekend, officials in both countries extol a blossoming “strategic partnership” between the two former communist rivals. But despite Moscow’s push to strengthen ties with Beijing amid a bitter strain in relations ...

The United Nations Security Council was briefed regarding the latest upheavals in Afghanistan by the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Nicholas Haysom. Haysom said Afghanistan has taken positive steps to overcome five key challenges for the survival of ...

The United States and its allies are expected to raise $15 billion for the Afghan National Defense and Security (ANDSF) in the NATO summit scheduled for next month in Warsaw, it has been reported. The funds will be raised with ...

The Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai is expected to visit Pakistan on Monday to discuss the Torkham issue which led to deadly clashes between the Afghan and Pakistani forces last week. The Afghanistan National Security Council (NSC) said Karzai is ...

CAIRO: An Egyptian court Saturday sentenced former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to life in prison in an espionage trial in which six of his co-defendants were handed death penalties. The court acquitted Morsi of charges of having supplied Qatar with ...

LONDON: A British lawmaker from the opposition Labour Party has been shot and injured in her constituency in northern England, media reported on Thursday. Jo Cox, 41, a mother of two, was left bleeding on the pavement after the incident ...

  DUBAI. Modi and Qatar’s ruler, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who visited India in March 2015, signed seven agreements to strengthen ties, according to the official Twitter account of India’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Vikas Swarup. Modi also met ...