Nobel Peace Prize laureate Yazidi activist Nadia Murad who was taken hostage by the Islamic State group in 2014 but escaped, is the first Iraqi to receive the prestigious award Nadia Murad survived the worst of the cruelties and brutality inflicted on her people, the Yazidis of Iraq, by the Islamic State group before becoming a global champion of their ...

Washington: US President Donald Trump has agreed to a request from Defence Secretary James Mattis to propose a defence budget of $750 billion for the coming year, according to an administration official. Last week, Trump appeared to call the…

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has advocated taking U-turns as an apt policy amidst criticisms over several “U-turns” in his government policies reportedly. The premier, who serves as major inspiration to PM Imran Khan and is often regarded as his mentor, defended the act of taking U-turns stating that at times…

Kenya’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta, appointed former vice president, Moody Awori, to an oversight board that will manage the sports, art and social development fund. The appointment of the 91-year-old veteran politician was not well…

Lion Air said on Monday passenger numbers dropped by less than 5 percent in November compared to a year earlier, after one of its Boeing Co 737 MAX jets crashed in late October killing all 189 people on board. ……

WASHINGTON — The FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into potential ties between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia initially focused on four Americans and whether they were connected to Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, former FBI Director James Comey told lawmakers during hours of closed questioning. Comey did not identify the Americans but said Trump, then the Republican ...

Work and Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd who has voiced support for a Norway-style model as an alternative to the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal if the Withdrawal Agreement is thrown out by MPs. Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire Karen Bradley, who has penned an open letter seeking to assure citizens that the draft Brexit deal is not a threat to rights or ...

BELGRADE (Reuters) – Thousands of people rallied peacefully in downtown Belgrade on Saturday to protest over an attack on an opposition politician and demand policy changes by President Aleksandar Vucic and his ruling Serbian Progressive party. Under the slogan “Stop the bloody shirts,” the demonstrators chanted as they marched through the city…

English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson is to join a “Brexit Betrayal” march, organised…

Beijing, Dec 8: Mexico’s Vanessa Ponce de Leon on Saturday won the coveted Miss World 2018 crown at a grand event held in the Chinese city Sanya. India’s Anukreethy Vas failed to make a mark at the pageant as she could ……