
POLITICS
Al Khalifah demise looming: Iran speaker
Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) speaker says the recent intensification of a crackdown on Shia Muslims in Bahrain signals the looming demise of the Al Khalifah regime.

Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) speaker says the recent intensification of a crackdown on Shia Muslims in Bahrain signals the looming demise of the Al Khalifah regime.

The Taliban kidnap at least 27 bus passengers in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province.

Donald Trump should be tried in a military court, and summarily executed over his suggestion of profiling Muslims in the United States, an American scholar says.

Four American troops deployed to Syria were wounded in a militant attack, a new report says.

Israel, which is widely believed to possess hundreds of atomic bombs, says it is not yet ready to ratify a UN pact on banning nuclear tests adopted nearly 20 years ago.

An Egyptian court voids a maritime border deal signed with Saudi Arabia that would hand over the control of two strategic Red Sea islands to Riyadh.

China’s largest shipping company plans to launch cruise travels in the disputed South China Sea next month.

Belgian police launch an anti-terror operation at a shopping center in Brussels after reports of a bomb threat.

At least three people are killed and hundreds forced to flee in the Central African Republic (CAR) over an attack by gunmen against a neighborhood in the capital.

Hillary Clinton’s fundraising for her White House bid surpasses that of Donald Trump by more 30 times.

Fighters with the Houthi Ansarullah movement in Yemen gain ground against Saudi mercenaries in the country’s Lahij Province.

Japan and South Korea say they are on alert over reported signs of a new attempt by the North to test fire a missile.

A Cypriot fireman dies in Cyprus while battling forest fires that have scorched some 15 square kilometers in the country.

Mexican teachers hold a protest march in the southern city of Oaxaca to denounce the killing of eight people in a recent rally.

A car bomb has killed at least six Jordanian soldiers and left 14 others injured in an attack on their post on the Syrian border, security officials say.

The US Senate has rejected a series of gun-control measures just days after the Orlando nightclub massacre shooting.

The NATO chief says the EU should remain the sanctions against Russia as senior EU officials are at loggerheads over the future of economic restrictions against Moscow.

Israeli forces kill a Palestinian for allegedly hurling stones and demolish the house of another Palestinian in the occupied West Bank.