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KATMANDU: Police in Nepal arrested 38 protesters Sunday for trying to enforce a strike against neighboring India, which is accused of orchestrating a weeks-long border blockade that has caused crippling fuel shortages. Many shops were closed in the capital Katmandu and traffic was thin on the roads after the strike called by a small hard-line opposition Communist party. “We have ... Read More »

ANKARA/MOSCOW: Turkey recovered the body of a Russian pilot from northern Syria and presented it to Russian diplomats on Sunday, five days after shooting down his warplane in an incident that wrecked relations between two of the main powers involved in Syria’s war. A coffin carrying Oleg Peshkov arrived by ambulance on the tarmac of Hatay Airport in southern Turkey ... Read More »

DHAKA: The chief of Bangladesh’s tax collection body, the National Board of Revenue (NBR), said his office will be able to meet the higher revenue collection target set for it in the current fiscal year. The target for the year to June 2016 is $22.61 billion, 31 percent higher than the previous financial year, said Nojibur Rahman, the chairman of ... Read More »

JERUSALEM: Israel "soon" will open an office focused on renewable energy in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates — even though the two nations have no diplomatic relations, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said. If opened, the office would be the first formal Israeli presence on the Arabian Peninsula in years. Where that office space will be ... Read More »

ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday voiced regret over Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane, saying his country was “truly saddened” by the incident and wished it hadn’t occurred. It was the first expression of regret by the strongman leader since Tuesday’s incident in which Turkish F-16 jets shot down the Russian jet on grounds that it had ... Read More »

DHAKA: Bangladesh police have arrested a suspected militant for sending death threats to prominent secular academics, as the country reels from rising extremist violence, officers said Wednesday. Police accuse Abdul Haque, a former teacher at an Islamic seminary, of threatening noted academics and writers in the name of the Daesh group and local banned outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT). “He ... Read More »

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered state-of-the art air defense missile systems to be deployed at a Russian air base in Syria following the downing of a Russian warplane by Turkey, a move that raised the threat of a military confrontation between the NATO member and Russia. The S-400 missile systems, which will be sent to the Hemeimeem ... Read More »

TEHRAN: The body of a senior Iranian diplomat missing since the Haj stampede in September has been identified, Iranian media said Wednesday, quashing speculation he was kidnapped. The corpse of Iran’s former ambassador to Lebanon, Ghazanfar Roknabadi, 49, was identified through DNA tests, ISNA reported. “My brothers traveled to Saudi Arabia and after seeing his body announced they have identified ... Read More »

There is one point on which all sides agree after the downing of a Russian fighter bomber by Turkey – it is that this is a very serious incident. The details of what actually happened are already being disputed vigorously. The Turks are claiming the Russian  S-24 was inside their airspace and that they have radar tracking data to prove ... Read More »

BEIRUT, Lebanon: One Russian pilot of a warplane downed by Turkey over Syria on Tuesday was killed by rebels and the second is missing after they both parachuted, rebel and opposition sources said. A Russian helicopter was also blown up by rebels following an emergency landing in government-held territory after it was damaged by rebel fire, but its crew was ... Read More »

Alex Wood Silk Road’s founder Ross Ulbricht has been sentenced to life imprisonment. But with copycat sites springing up, who will be the web’s next victim? Many believe the internet was created as an open space, free from the shackles of government intervention, lawmakers and scrutiny. Whether you subscribe to that idea or not, last week lawmakers made the clearest signal yet ... Read More »

NEW DELHI — India will urge rich nations to deliver “climate justice” for developing countries at a major environmental conference in Paris later this month, the environment minister has said in an interview. Prakash Javadekar called on industrialized countries to commit to more stringent targets to free up “carbon space” for the developing world to generate emissions as a necessary byproduct ... Read More »

TEHRAN: Russia and Iran jointly oppose “external attempts” to bring regime change in Syria, a Kremlin official said Monday in Tehran after President Vladimir Putin met supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The comments were a direct rebuff of repeated demands from the United States, France, Britain and Gulf Arabs that President Bashar Assad step down and play no future role ... Read More »

DUBAI: Daesh does not consider South Asians, including Indians, good enough to fight in the conflict zones of Iraq and Syria and treated them as inferior to Arab fighters. However, it often tricks them into launching suicide attacks. According to an intelligence report prepared by foreign agencies, fighters from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh as well as certain countries like Nigeria and ... Read More »

JEDDAH: Overseas Saudi missions are not charging any fee for Haj or Umrah visas, the minister of Haj categorically stated. In a firm denial, the minister, Bandar Hajjar, said: “There is no logic behind such talks. The Kingdom has been spending billions of riyals to make Haj and Umrah easy and comfortable for pilgrims.”  Hajjar indicated that an increase in ... Read More »