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In 2017, the United Nations Security Council slapped three sets of sanctions on North Korea, one on August 5, another on September 11 and the most recent on December 22 focused on refined petroleum products. (Photo: File)

UN calls for 'all parties' to find political solution for Yemen

The UN also repeated a call for the key port of Hodeida to remain open.

6 July 2018 8:50 AM IST

The intensity of the bombardment allowed government forces to seize control of a security checkpoint on the Jordanian border for the first time in more than three years, the monitoring group said. (Photo: AFP)

Intense airstrikes hit Syria's Daraa after failed talks on rebel...

Some rebel groups have agreed to negotiated surrenders but on Wednesday evening the remainder walked out of talks with a...

5 July 2018 3:33 PM IST

ISIS media outlets published this image of Hudayfah al-Badri, son of the leader of Isis, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Photo: AP)

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's son killed in Syria

The group's statement showed an image of a young boy carrying an assault rifle and gave no further details.

5 July 2018 8:51 AM IST

A Saudi woman gets ready to drive her car through the streets of Khobar City on her way to Kingdom of Bahrain. (Photo:Representational AFP)

Saudi woman's car set on fire after driving ban lifted

Salma al-Sherif told local media that her car had been deliberately set alight this week by men 'opposed to women...

4 July 2018 8:48 PM IST

NASA predicsts that as the immense iceberg now heads into warmer waters, it is likely to disappear. (Photo: Pixabay)

UAE to tow icebergs from Antarctica to its coasts for drinking water

Company is developing technology to reduce project costs, ensure zero ice melting during transport, facilitate...

2 July 2018 2:22 PM IST

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L), meets with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi in Amman, Jordan, April 30, 2018. (Photo: AP)

Pompeo says Israel, Palestinian peace still US priority

Pompeo said the United States is open to a two-state solution to the conflict if both parties agree, calling it a...

30 April 2018 4:15 PM IST

The latest attack could further escalate the coalitions military campaign. (Photo: Representational Image | AP)

Syrian army says enemy' rockets hit military bases, killed 26

In a news flash, state television said the missile attacks took place at 10.30 pm.

30 April 2018 12:21 PM IST

Congressman Mike Pompeo. (Photo: AP)

Mike Pompeo, in Saudi Arabia, talks tough on Iran, Gulf dispute

Pompeo was meeting on Sunday with Saudi King Salman, whose country along with Bahrain and the UAE is embroiled in a row...

29 April 2018 12:05 PM IST

Relatives of 15-year-old Palestinian teenager Azzam Oweida gather around his body in the morgue of a hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 28, 2018, as he succumbed to his wounds a day after he was shot by Israeli forces in clashes along the Gaza border. (Photo: AFP)

Palestinian teen dies of wounds from Israel-Gaza border shooting:...

45 palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since the Great March of Return on March 30, with more than 1,500...

28 April 2018 2:44 PM IST

The leaders of North and South Korea held a historic meeting along their border on Friday, vowing to pursue a peace treaty and the complete denuclearisation of their divided peninsula. (Photo;AP)

Iran says US unqualified' to play role in Korean detente

The foreign ministry said meeting between North and South Korea was 'responsible and effective step towards regional and...

28 April 2018 1:42 PM IST

The Jalalabad Police was informed that a dead body of a 12-year-old girl from Raipura village was found in a field.The body has been sent for postmortem. An investigation will be done, Subhash Chandra, ASP, Shahjahanpur said. (Photo: ANI)

Indian woman's decomposed body found in UAE home, husband fled' to...

According to police, her husband, along with their 2 kids, managed to escape to India after allegedly killing and...

26 April 2018 8:13 PM IST

The court was hearing an appeal against non-registration of a divorce application on grounds that one of the parties was away in the US and did not present herself in court to file her consent.

Turkey: 14 Cumhuriyet staff sentenced on terror charges

The convicted journalists were earlier indicted in July 2016 for sponsoring the PKK, FETO and other terrorist groups...

26 April 2018 12:01 PM IST