British authorities believe they know the identity of the suicide bomber who killed 22 people including children at a pop concert, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday, as police said they had arrested a 23-year-old man in connection with the a

Hindustan Times, New Delhi, 23.05.2017 - The Indian army said on Tuesday that it is engaging in “punitive fire assaults” on Pakistani posts that were aiding infiltrators into India.  

Donald Trump made the short trip from Jerusalem to Bethlehem Tuesday to meet Mahmoud Abbas and pitch a ‘lasting peace’ with Israel.  

LONDON - An explosion described by police as a likely terrorist attack ripped through a crowd of teenagers and other concertgoers late Monday after a performance by an American pop singer in the English city of Manchester, leaving at least 19 people

ISTANBUL - Turkey’s Foreign Ministry lodged a formal protest on Monday with the U.S. ambassador over “aggressive” actions by American security personnel during a visit to Washington last week by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that w

North Korea on Sunday launched another missile, its ninth this year, in its latest show of defiance to the international community.   

JERUSALEM AFP May21, 2017 - Israel announced Sunday it had reached a deal worth $630 million to provide India’s navy with missile defence systems, following a record weapons sale between the two countries last month.   

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday took back control of the ruling party he founded, a step that gives the nation’s most powerful man additional authority to appoint loyalists to parliament lists and party posts across the

BANGKOK AFP May22, 2017 -A small bomb struck a Bangkok military hospital on Monday wounding more than 20 people, police said, three years to the day since the army seized power of the politically unstable kingdom.   

JERUSALEM AFP May21, 2017-US President Donald Trump’s visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories on Monday and Tuesday will be closely scrutinised as he seeks ways to re-start peace efforts.   

President Donald Trump made a splashy debut on the world stage here Saturday, ushering in a new era in U.S.-Saudi Arabian relations by signing a joint “strategic vision” that includes $110 billion in American arms sales and other new inve

REUTERS, 21st MAY, 2017-Iranian hardliners indignant at President Hassan Rouhani’s re-election vowed on Sunday to press their conservative agenda, with some saying his caustic campaign trail attacks on their candidate would bring a backlash.

The Indian Defence Ministry on Saturday cleared the decks for private sector  players to build military equipment such as fighter jets, submarines  and armoured vehicles in India.

Kerala police decided to drop charges against the 23-year-old woman who gashed the genitals of a self-proclaimed godman when he tried to sexually assault her on Friday, as support poured in from various quarters.   Initially, police planned to c

(c) 2017, Foreign Policy · Emily Tamkin · WORLD, EUROPE · May 20, 2017 - 1:03 AM    United Russia, the party of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev, has completed a report into how U.S. m

President Donald Trump on Thursday said there was no collusion between his campaign and Russia, while adding the caveat that he can only speak for himself, and denied ever asking FBI Director James Comey to back off his agency’s investigation i

 (c) 2017, The Washington Post · Missy Ryan · NATIONAL, WORLD, POLITICS, MIDDLE-EAST · May 19, 2017 - American aircraft struck a convoy of troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad on Thursday, in a rare direct assault b

ISTANBUL - Turkey’s foreign minister on Thursday called on the Trump administration to replace its envoy to the anti-Islamic State coalition - the latest sign of Turkish frustration with the U.S. war strategy in Syria amid mounting tensions bet

WASHINGTON AFP May19, 2017- Two Chinese fighter jets intercepted an American military plane over the East China Sea, media in the United States reported Thursday, citing US officials.   

China, (Daily Mail), 18 May 2017 -  Beijing has unveiled a homegrown combat chopper that’s said to be capable of destroying the most powerful tank in the world.  

President Trump railed against his Justice Department’s decision to appoint a special counsel to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign.   

JERUSALEM AFP May18, 2017-Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev triggered a social media storm on Thursday after she attended the Cannes film festival in an evening dress featuring a Jerusalem Islamic shrine.   

MOSCOW AFP May18, 2017-Russian President Vladimir Putin and new French leader Emmanuel Macron discussed boosting poor ties between Paris and Moscow in their first phone conversation, the Kremlin said Thursday.   

THE HAGUE AFP May18, 2017-The UN’s top court on Thursday ordered Pakistan to stay the execution of an Indian national convicted of spying, in a decision hailed by New Delhi.   

BRUSSELS AFP May18, 2017- EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said Thursday remaining differences over a planned military headquarters had been resolved and it could be formally launched in a few days.   

President Trump asked the FBI to drop its probe into former national security adviser Michael Flynn and urged former FBI director James B. Comey instead to pursue reporters in leak cases, according to associates of Comey who have seen private notes h

DAILY MAIL, 17th MAY, 2017 -  An Indian couple who say they were ‘made for each other’ have become the country’s smallest bride and groom - with a combined height of just 3ft.   

REUTERS, 17th MAY, 2017- Gunmen attacked a building of Afghan state television in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Wednesday and engaged in a gun battle with security forces, the provincial governor’s spokesman said.

Embattled US President Donald Trump faced explosive allegations that he divulged top secret intelligence to Russian diplomats in the Oval Office, a charge the White House scrambled to rebut Monday.   

REUTERS, 16th MAY, 2017- Afghan security forces have regained control of a district centre close to the northern city of Kunduz that fell to Taliban insurgents earlier this month, officials said on Tuesday.