Washington: After the International Criminal Court decided not to proceed with an investigation into war crimes in Afghanistan, the Trump administration hailed it as vindication of their insistence that the court has no jurisdiction over US forces who might have been implicated in a probe. The judges’ decision appeared to end the quest for accountability […]
Tel Aviv: In order to become the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the Moon, the Israeli spacecraft called ‘Beresheet’ crashed during the final touchdown after the apparent failure of its main engine. According to BBC, the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) spacecraft suffered some technical problems due to which the failure occurred. The main […]
Srinagar: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, CNN reported on Thursday. The Metropolitan Police said its officers went into the embassy, where Assange has been living for the past seven years, to detain him for “failing to surrender to the court” over a warrant issued in 2012. He […]
Jerusalem: Israelis began voting Tuesday in the country’s most closely-fought election in years that could propel incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces the ignominy of being indicted in a series of graft cases, to become the longest serving premier in the Jewish state’s history. Over 10,000 polling stations opened around the country from 7:00 a.m. […]
Tehran: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday that the United States was the real “leader of world terrorism” after Washington blacklisted Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a “foreign terrorist organisation”. “Who are you to label revolutionary institutions as terrorists?” Rouhani asked in a speech broadcast live by state television. “You want to use terrorist groups as tools […]
Washington: The US on Monday designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organisation, an unprecedented declaration against a foreign government that may prompt retaliation and make it harder for American diplomats and military officers to work with allies in the region. It is the first time that the US has designated an entity of another […]
Srinagar: The West Bank is “absolutely” a territory of Palestinians, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, lambasting Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu for his remarks on annexing Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank if re-elected. Speaking to reporters ahead of his departure for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the capital Moscow, Erdogan […]
Kuala Lumpur: At least 10 people were killed and 34 wounded after bus they were travelling in plunged into a monsoon drain along Jalan S8 Pekeliling, near MAS Kargo, KL International Airport in Malaysia. It is believed the driver may have lost control of the vehicle before he plunged the bus into the drain, however, the […]
Istanbul: Iran threatened to add United States army to its terrorism list if Washington designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group, a senior Iranian lawmaker said on Sunday. Heshmatollah Falahat Pishe, chairman of the Iran’s parliament’s National Security said that the Iranian parliament on Saturday prepared a motion in this regard, […]
Washington: The Trump administration is expected to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization as early as next week, according to a US official. The Trump administration is going to designate the IRGC as a terrorist group as soon as Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday citing US […]
