International

Reuters, Mosul :US-backed Iraqi forces pushed into western Mosul on Friday after retaking the city’s airport from the militant Islamic State group. Aid agencies warned...

AFP, Moscow :Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Moscow’s goal in Syria was to “stabilise the legitimate authority” and strike a “decisive blow” against...

Dawn.com, New Delhi :China said on Thursday that the strategic dialogue with India was of positive significance to ties and that extensive agreements were reached....

AFP, Seoul :North Korea has up to 5,000 tonnes of chemical weapons, South Korean experts said Friday, including the toxin used to assassinate its leader’s...

AFP, New York :New York state took fresh steps Thursday to combat a spike in anti-Semitism and hate crimes, promising a $25 million grant to...

AP, Washington :White House chief of staff Reince Priebus asked a top FBI official to dispute media reports that President Donald Trump’s campaign advisers were...

AP, Mexico City :President Donald Trump dispatched his top diplomat and homeland security chief to Mexico on Wednesday on a fence-mending mission complicated by the...

AFP, Sydney :Several hundred pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated in Sydney on Thursday against the first visit to Australia by an Israeli prime minister, branding Benjamin Netanyahu...

AFP, Mosul : Iraqi forces on Thursday entered Mosul airport, which lies on the southern edge of the city, for the first time since the Islamic...

Reuters, London :Britain appointed experienced counter-terrorism officer Cressida Dick as London’s new police chief on Wednesday, the first woman to hold the job. But she...