BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber wearing an explosives-filled belt targeted Shiite pilgrims and murdered 28 people in Baghdad on Wednesday while 11 more were killed in bomb attacks, security officials told AFP.
The suicide attack occurred in Adhamiyah, a Sunni district across the Tigris river from Kadhimiyah, an area named after Musa Kadhim, the seventh of 12 [...]
NEW YORK: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged that the future of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank would be among the first issues to be negotiated if the Palestinians resume direct peace talks.
“One of the things we’ll discuss right away is settlements, and that’s what I propose doing,” he said in an interview [...]
TEHRAN: Iran’s nuclear point man says the country’s first nuclear power plant will be inaugurated in the southern Iranian port city of Bushehr by September.
“Today we passed one of the most important and final test, the hot water tests, of Bushehr power plant before its inauguration,” IRNA quoted Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of [...]
SRINAGAR: In occupied Kashmir, the authorities continue with indefinite curfew in all major towns and cities to prevent people from protesting against the recent killing of demonstrators in indiscriminate firing by Indian troops.
The authorities continue to clamp curfew in Srinagar, Islamabad, Pampore, Pulwama, Kulgam, Kupwara, Bandipore, Sopore and Baramulla for the second day, today, after [...]
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama said he hoped for direct Middle East peace talks to start before the end of September, as he and visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied reports of a rift.
The leaders sat close together in the Oval Office Tuesday and staged a prolonged handshake for the cameras, seeking to put [...]
