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Madrid, Jan 25 (AFP/APP): Spanish police have arrested a man suspected of being behind a recent letter bombing campaign that targeted the prime minister and the Ukrainian embassy, the interior ministry said Wednesday. A 74-year-old Spanish citizen was arrested in Miranda de Ebro in northern […]

Washington, Jan 24 (AFP/APP):The first secret documents turned up in Joe Biden’s former private office and home back in November, but it was January before the White House publicly admitted the embarrassing discovery — under pressure from a steady drip of media revelations. Since then, […]

KATHMANDU 15 JAN (Online): At least 40 people were killed on Sunday when a domestic flight crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, a Nepal aviation authority official said, in the small Himalayan country’s worst crash in nearly five years. Hundreds of rescue workers continued to scour […]

ISLAMABAD, Jan 13 (APP): Denmark has announced additional humanitarian assistance of DKK 26.7 million to United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) for supporting the flood relief efforts of Pakistan. “The Danish assistance will provide health, nutrition, WASH, child protection services and education for 10 […]

Washington, Jan 12 (AFP/APP): The United States said Wednesday that attacks in space would invoke its defense treaty with Japan and announced the deployment of a more agile Marine unit on its ally’s soil as alarm grows over China. Weeks after unveiling plans to ramp […]

Kabul, Jan 11 (AFP/APP): At least five people were killed and dozens wounded by a suicide bomber near the Afghan foreign ministry in Kabul Wednesday, where a Chinese delegation had been due to meet, officials and witnesses said. A company driver waiting outside saw a […]

London, Jan 11 (AFP/APP):The British and Japanese prime ministers signed what Downing Street called a “hugely significant” new defence deal allowing UK troops to deploy in Japan as the pair met in London on Wednesday. Rishi Sunak and Fumio Kishida signed the agreement at the […]

BEIJING, Jan 10 (XINHUA/APP): Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Czech President Milos Zeman via video link on Monday. Xi said that over the past 10 years, he and President Zeman have met and talked many times, and exchanged in-depth views on bilateral relations and […]

NEW YORK, Jan 09 (APP):US human rights organizations have condemned Harvard Kennedy School for denying fellowship to the former head of Human Rights Watch (HRW), a prominent international watchdog body, due to “anti-Israel bias”, according to media reports. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) called […]

BURLIN, Germany – January 8 (ONLINE) An Iranian man has been arrested in western Germany suspected of preparing an “Islamist attack” using cyanide and ricin, police and prosecutors said Sunday. Muenster police and the Duesseldorf prosecutors’ office said in a press release that officers searched […]