WASHINGTON, May 06 (Agencies): US President Donald Trump spoke with Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May on Saturday on issues including the Iran nuclear deal, a week before the president is to decide whether Washington will leave the pact, the White House said.Trump is set to decide by May 12 whether...
Read moreBAGHDAD. May 06 (Reuters): The Iraqi air force carried out a new strike on an Islamic State position inside Syria, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's office said in a statement on Sunday.The strike targeted a position used by the commanders of the group, south of the town of Deshaisha, the statement...
Read moreQUETTA, May 06 (Agencies): Twenty-three people were killed and 11 wounded after gas explosions tore through two neighbouring coal mines in southwestern Pakistan, officials said Sunday.A cave-in at a mine in Marwaarh, east of the city of Quetta in Balochistan, killed 16 miners. Seven more were killed in a landslide...
Read moreBEIRUT, May 06 (Reuters): Voters queued outside polling stations across Lebanon on Sunday for the chance to take part in its first general election in nine years - an event seen as important for economic stability but unlikely to upset the overall balance of power.Cars and mopeds were decked out...
Read moreSRINAGAR, May 06 (AFP): Indian soldiers shot dead five Kashmir militants including a rebel university teacher in a gunfight Sunday that triggered protests in which five civilians were killed.Thousands took to the streets of Srinagar, the disputed territory's main city, to show support for the slain militants and government forces...
Read moreGAZA CITY, May 06 (AFP): Israel struck a facility of the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers overnight, the movement's military wing said on Sunday, with the Israeli army saying it was reacting to kite-borne fire bombings.A military spokeswoman said it was a direct response to a new Palestinian tactic of flying...
Read moreDUBAI, May 06 (AFP): Saudi Arabia has detained thousands of people for up to a decade without trial, Human Rights Watch said Sunday, slamming the country's powerful crown prince for the "arbitrary detentions".Official data from the interior ministry, analysed by HRW, showed that authorities had detained 2,305 people for more...
Read moreRoadside bomb claims seven lives in KabulMAIMANA, May 06: Seven civilians lost their lives and another sustained injuries as a roadside bomb struck their car outside Maimana, capital of north Afghanistan's Faryab province Sunday, a local police spokesman said. "An eight-member group of daily wagers were going to a work...
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