A top Afghan security commander, Kandahar police chief General Abdul Raziq, has been killed. Taliban militants claimed the attack which happened after a high-level meeting inside the governor's compound.
Months after initial reports that Russia was upgrading its nuclear weapons storage bunker in its Kaliningrad exclave, there is more news regarding Moscow’s military upgradation in the region.
According to a Reuters report, several U.S. public funds that hold shares in Facebook Inc have backed a proposal to remove Mark Zuckerberg as chairman of the company.
A day after U.S. President Donald Trump registered a minor win in a defamation case filed by Stormy Daniels aka Stephanie Clifford against him, the president targeted her in a tweet.
Boko Haram militants have killed a female aid worker held by the group since March, the Nigerian government has confirmed. The aid worker was shot in the head, execution style.
A U.S. federal judge dismissed Stormy Daniels’ defamation lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump. He ruled that the U.S. President’s tweet attacking the porn star’s credibility was free speech protected by the Constitution.
Cui Tiankai, the Chinese ambassador to the United States, said on Sunday that it’s “very confusing” trying to discern who has U.S. President Donald Trump’s ear on trade policy.
Canada's new law legalizing recreational cannabis goes into effect on October 16. Canada will become just the second country in the world to legalize and regulate cannabis for adult recreational use, after Uruguay and hence the world will look to Ottawa to see how this experiment goes.
U.S. First lady Melania Trump in an exclusive interview with ABC News revealed that her "I really don't care" jacket was a message aimed at the left-wing media.
Riyadh dismissed threats of sanctions over the disappearance of Khashoggi and vowed Saudi Arabia would retaliate against any such action.
The U.S. military has temporarily grounded its entire fleet of F-35 fighter jets in the wake of a crash in South Carolina last month. A Marine Corps F-35B was completely destroyed in a crash during training in South Carolina on September 28.
Malaysia has decided to abolish the death penalty, a senior minister said on Thursday. The announcement offers a reprieve to more than 1200 people who are currently on death row in the country.
Pakistan will go to the International Monetary Fund and friendly countries for financial help to avert a looming balance of payments crisis, the country's Prime Minister Imran Khan announced on Wednesday.
After initially rubbishing reports of mass detention of Uighur Muslims, China’s Xinjiang provincial government has “legalised” detention camps.
Hurricane Michael - a category four storm with windspeed of over 230km/h – made landfall on Wednesday afternoon in the U.S. state of Florida's Panhandle region.
Up to half a million Florida residents were warned on Tuesday to get out of harm's way as Hurricane Michael sped over the Gulf of Mexico toward the northwestern part of the state, bringing fierce winds, torrential rain and life-threatening coastal floods.
Pakistan’s Navy is no longer part of the multi-country counterpiracy Combined Task Force (CTF) 151 that operates in the western Indian Ocean.
Online investigative website Bellingcat says it has unearthed the ‘real identity’ of the second man in the photo released by Britain’s metropolitan police as the suspects responsible for the nerve agent poisoning in the town of Salisbury.
Jair Bolsonaro, a Brazilian politician won the first round of Brazil’s elections on Sunday by a margin of 17 percentage points but fell short of the 50% of valid votes needed to win outright.
Israeli’s Benjamin Netanyahu is no stranger to controversy. In the latest incident, Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, has been put on a trial for fraud, in which she is alleged to have misused state funds in ordering catered meals.
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