GENEVA, Mar 21 (Agencies): Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday expressed his concern over the crisis around the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty and the US refusal to talk about preventing placement of weapons in outer space.Attending the two-day Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva, the United Nations' multilateral...
Read moreMILAN, Mar 21 (AP): A bus driver in northern Italy abducted 51 children and their school chaperones on Wednesday, threatening the hostages' lives for 40 minutes and setting the bus on fire at a Carabinieri blockade.Officers from the national police force broke windows at the back of the bus to...
Read moreKABUL, Mar 21 (Agencies): A string of explosions struck near a Shiite shrine and cemetery in Kabul as people gathered there on Thursday morning to mark the holiday of Nowruz, the Persian New Year, leaving at least five dead and as many as 20 wounded, Afghan officials said.The police's initial...
Read moreLONDON, Mar 21 (Agencies): An online petition asking the British government to revoke Brexit briefly crashed on Thursday after a surge in support saw it garner more than 600,000 signatures in less than 24 hours.With just eight days to go until Britain is scheduled to leave the European Union, the...
Read moreSEOUL, Mar 21 (AP): South Korean police said on Thursday they've arrested four people on suspicion of secretly filming about 1,600 guests in hotel rooms and posting or streaming the footage on the internet.The Korean National Police Agency said on Thursday the mini-spy cameras were set up in TV set-top...
Read morePakistani forces rescue kidnapped Iranian soldiersISLAMABAD, Mar 21: Pakistani security forces recovered four kidnapped Iranian soldiers from the border region in southwestern Balochistan province, the military said early Thursday. The army's media wing Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement that the security forces conducted a successful intelligence-based...
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