
PAKISTAN
Blast kills 3 in Pakistan tribal region
A bomb attack kills three people in one of Pakistan's restive tribal areas.

A bomb attack kills three people in one of Pakistan's restive tribal areas.

Eight civilians are killed in fresh Saudi air raids on arms depots in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a.

US police have killed a fifty-year-old black man after shooting him by a stun gun in New York.

An anti-ISIL cartoon competition concludes in the Iranian capital, Tehran.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) lowers its growth forecast for Ukraine to the worse-than-expected minus nine percent.

US Defense Secretary Ash Carter has unveiled the Pentagon’s plans to deploy advanced weapons in Asia.

Partial results from Italy’s recent vote show the prime minister’s party is headed for a defeat in several regions.

Shahrzad Mirgholikhan says the US’ treatment of prisoners reminds one of the slavery era in the country.

Pirate attacks targeting commercial shipping, including oil cargo, have sharply increased, Managing Director of National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) Ali Akbar Shafa’ie has said.

An activist has described a recent discrimination act against a Muslim woman on board an American plane as “despicable.”

Demonstrators march in Turkey to remember activists killed in an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound ship in 2010.

Saudi warplanes bombard a local radio station inside Yemeni territory.

The White House has denounced the US Senate for failure to extend the provisions of the Patriot Act.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the regime is being threatened by an international campaign.

The US Senate has failed to reach a deal on extending the controversial Patriot Act used by the NSA as a legal basis for spying on people.

An Egyptian appeals court has sentenced a female human rights activist to 15 months behind bars.

US Secretary of State John Kerry will fly home for treatment on Monday after breaking his leg in a bicycle crash in France.

An Iraqi army airstrike claims the lives of two Takfiri filmmakers behind ISIL’s propaganda videos.