Washington: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that bipartisan negotiations in the US Senate on gun control legislation, following massacres at a Texas elementary school and a Buffalo, New York, supermarket last month, will continue amid some signs of progress. “Senator (Chris) Murphy has asked for
Canberra: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced that the country will launch NASA rockets for the first time in 27 years within a month. Albanese and the head of the Australian Space Agency (ASA) Enrico Palermo on Wednesday said three NASA suborbital sounding rockets will lift
New York: A recent drug trial administered to a handful of cancer patients had the surprising result of eliminating the disease in every participant involved. The study was conducted on 18 rectal cancer patients at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan and had a 100
London: More than half of British Muslims feel like their lives are improving, citing role models and work opportunities, according to a new poll. Savanta ComRes surveyed 1,503 British Muslims who said life was improving in Britain on 10 out of 12 measures, but workplace discrimination
Geneva: Israel s occupation and discrimination against Palestinians are the main causes of the endless cycles of violence, UN investigators said, prompting angry Israeli protests. A high-level team of investigators, appointed last year by the United Nations Human Rights Council to probe "all underlying root causes"
Dubai: Thirteen people died when a passenger train derailed in eastern Iran on Wednesday, the semi-official Fars news agency said, while 60 passengers were seriously injured. The train travelling to the city of Yazd collided with an excavator before going off the rails 50 km (30
Al-Mukalla: Yemeni government negotiators in the UN-brokered talks over the siege of Taiz accepted a UN proposal for initially opening a main road in the besieged city of Taiz, achieving a breakthrough in the talks and as the truce continues to produce significant benefits. Abdul Kareem
Washington: Federal prosecutors have obtained evidence that John R. Allen, the retired four-star Marines general who commanded all U.S. forces in Afghanistan and now heads a venerable Washington think tank, secretly lobbied the government of Qatar, lied to investigators about his role and tried to
Vienna: The United States, Britain, France and Germany have submitted a motion to the UN atomic energy watchdog to censure Iran over its lack of cooperation with the agency, two diplomats said on Wednesday. “The text was submitted overnight” from Monday to Tuesday, a European diplomat
Doha: The Arab world has reacted strongly to the defamatory remarks about the Holy Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) made by a top official in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and launched an online campaign calling for a boycott of the Indian products. Arab world has reacted strongly