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From left, front, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Secretary General Rashid Alimov, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon, Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev, from left, middle row, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, other persons unidentified, pose for a photo at a summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Astana, Kazakstan (Photo: AP)World
India, Pakistan may come closer at SAARC post SCO membership: Pak...

Baloch along with India's Ambassador to China, Vijay Gokhale, attended the briefing along with other diplomats at SCO...

12 Jun 2017 7:25 PM IST

British Prime Minister Theresa May (Photo: AP)World
Britain's Theresa May to face fury of own MPs in battle to keep job

May's Conservatives unexpectedly lost their majority in parliament in snap vote, causing political chaos ahead of Brexit...

12 Jun 2017 7:02 PM IST

were shouting Freedom to Navalny after the politician himself was picked up by police on his way to the protest in the stairwell of his building. (Photo: Representational/AFP)World
Hundreds arrested in Russian anti-corruption protest

A correspondent in Saint Petersburg estimated about two hundred people detained in the centre, where demonstrators...

12 Jun 2017 6:54 PM IST

Prosecutors in South Carolina released the video on Friday (Photo: Youtube grab)World
Video: Police rescue US woman locked inside metal storage container...

A search of the property led investigators to Carver's body, buried in a shallow grave.

12 Jun 2017 6:26 PM IST

Steven Laudeman, a Southwest airlines ramp agent, shared photographs of himself and \Teddy,\ the bear Eleanor Dewald, 8, lost flying from Dallas to Detroit Metropolitan Airport. (Photo: AP)World
Teddy bear reaches space after tied to balloon by kids in UK

Footage showed the curvature of the Earth taking in the Thames Estuary, where the River Thames meets the waters of the...

12 Jun 2017 5:58 PM IST

Passengers of cancelled flights wait in Hamad International Airport (HIA) in Doha, Qatar. Qatars foreign minister says Kuwait is trying to mediate a diplomatic crisis in which Arab countries have cut diplomatic ties and moved to isolate his energy-rich, travel-hub nation from the outside world.World
UAE exempts Qataris married to Emiratis from expulsion order

In the worst Gulf Arab crisis for years, the UAE, along with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, cut diplomatic and travel and...

12 Jun 2017 5:26 PM IST

3 suspected operatives of the neo-JMB were arrested in a raid in Rajshahis Tanore sub-district where they were living with their family members. (Photo: File)World
Bangladesh police arrests 10 militants in raids

The Rapid Action Battalion on Sunday also arrested a garment factory owner who it said was a financier of the extremist...

12 Jun 2017 4:44 PM IST

Norways ruling coalition of conservative and anti-immigration right wing parties had promised the ban last year. (Photo: Representational/ AP)World
Norway to ban full-face Muslim veil in all schools

Local authorities in Norway already have the power to ban the veil in schools, however there is no uniform national...

12 Jun 2017 4:06 PM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. (Photo: AFP)World
Pak PM Sharif receives legal notice to appear before court-appointed...

Information Minister Aurangzeb said that Prime Minister Sharif received notice for the Thursday appearance.

12 Jun 2017 3:28 PM IST

Dozens of suspects have been arrested since the attacks on Wednesday killed 17 people in the first assault in Iran to be claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group. (Photo: AFP/Representational)World
Iran tracks down, kills 4 ISIS suspects post Tehran twin attacks

At least 41 ISIS suspects have been arrested since the attacks, according to Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi.

12 Jun 2017 3:00 PM IST

Ameet Jogia, an Indian-origin Tory candidate. (Photo: Facebook)World
Indian-origin Tory candidate targeted by racist voter in UK

Ameet Jogia, who went to investigate shortly before voting closed, said he was 'saddened' to see the 'racist' message...

12 Jun 2017 2:40 PM IST

Pakistani soldiers stand guard at the site where a Chinese couple was kidnapped in the neighbourhood of Jinnah town in Quetta. (Photo: File/AFP)World
Pakistan scrambles to protect China's Silk Road pioneers

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province is conducting a census of Chinese nationals and raising a force of about 4,200 officers to...

12 Jun 2017 1:48 PM IST

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