Death toll soars in Turkey coal mine collapse

The death toll from an explosion and fire at a coal mine in western Turkey is now 201, Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said on Wednesday. Yildiz added that some 780 people were working inside at the time of the accident in the coal mine in Soma, some 250 kilometers (155.35 miles) from Istanbul, the...

US unable to paralyze Iranian nation: Leader

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the United States and other powers will never be capable of "crippling the Iranian nation through pressure." "If we activate domestic potential and focus on local capabilities, the US and other powers will not be capable of doing a...

Earthquake leaves 1 dead, 70 others injured in southern Pakistan

At least one person was killed and nearly 70 others were injured after a moderate earthquake rattled several towns in southern Pakistan early Friday. According to government officials, the magnitude 5 quake struck the district of Nawabshah around 4:00 am local time, causing panic as many were still...

Russia calls NATO 'blind' for denying troops withdrawal

Russia has criticized NATO's Secretary General for a statement he made denying Russian troops withdrawal from the Ukrainian borders. Russia’s comment came on Thursday following NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s posting on his twitter account, claiming he had seen no...

Bahraini forces injure protesters in Manama rally

Numerous Bahraini protesters have been wounded by birdshots fired by Al Khalifa regime forces during an anti-government demonstration in the capital, Manama. The protesters had staged a new protest rally on Sunday to slam the Bahraini Interior Ministry for refusing to hand over the body of a dead protester,...

Kiev retakes Kramatorsk security service headquarters

The Ukrainian interim government says its forces have retaken the security service headquarters in the eastern city of Kramatorsk. "Now it is under the control of the National Guard," Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said in a statement released on Saturday. The Ukrainian army’s assault...

Indian police discover bodies of 9 slain Muslims

Indian police have recovered the bodies of nine more Muslims slain during a bloody attack by tribal separatists in northeastern India. Police said the bodies were discovered in India's remote northeastern Assam State on Saturday, raising the death toll to 32 following two days of fighting in the...

Pro-Russians seize another east Ukraine town

Pro-Russian protesters have seized another town in eastern Ukraine after capturing the town hall in the Donetsk city of Kostyantynivka. A group of some 20 pro-Russian activists took control of the town hall on Monday and hoisted the flag of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic. The...

North Korea: We need capable army to beat US

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says his country requires an army powerful enough to defeat the United States in any possible confrontation. Kim’s remarks to North Korea’s Central Military Commission, reported on Sunday, come one day after US President Barack Obama warned Pyongyang...

Iraq set to hold general elections on Wednesday

Iraqis are set to go to polls on April 30 amid bomb attacks carried out by al-Qaeda-linked militants to disrupt the elections. Most Iraqis will have to vote on Wednesday, but the security forces will cast their ballots two days earlier in order to be free to guard polling stations on the election...

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British women fighting in Syria

Hundreds of Britons are thought to have gone to Syria over the last few years to join arms in the bloody battle against the Syrian government. UK police made an unprecedented appeal calling on Muslim women to urge their relatives not to join the conflict following a number of deaths of British men on...

Russia responds to Ukraine with military drills

Russia holds military drills near the Ukrainian border as a response to Kiev's using armed forces against pro-Russian protestors and NATO’s recent European exercises.Russia’s military drills came after President Vladimir Putin accused Kiev of using armed forces against protesters...

Brazil hosts Internet governance conference

A conference on Internet governance is set to start in Brazil in the wake of revelations about global spying activities by the United States. Representatives from around the world will attend the two-day NETMundial summit, which begins in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo on Wednesday. They...

Leader slams Western version of woman rights as flawed

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has dismissed Western view of female status and their approach to women’s issues as profoundly flawed and repressive. Addressing hundreds of Iranian women on Saturday on the merry occasion of birth anniversary of prophet of Islam’s...

Putin:
Ukraine on �verge� of civil war

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Ukraine is nearing a civil war, after the central government deployed troops to target pro-Russia separatist militia, while Kiev stated that pro-Russian forces have a “shoot to kill” order. “The sharp escalation of the conflict puts...

Syria forces enter Sarkha town in Qalamoun

Syrian forces have entered the town of al-Sarkha in the strategic Qalamoun region, retaking the full control of the town from foreign-backed Takfiri militants operating inside Syria. The official SANA news agency quoted a Syrian military source as saying that army units restored “security...

Sisi officially enters Egypt�s presidential race

Egypt’s interim deputy prime minister officially entered the presidential race on Monday when his campaigners handed in application papers to the elections committee in Cairo, the country’s state TV said. Amid heighted security measures, three black 4x4 cars belonging to Sisi’s...

Tensions spread to Slovyansk in east Ukraine

Tensions are running high in Ukraine as armed men seize a police headquarters and a security service headquarters in the country’s eastern town of Slovyansk. Pro-Russia protesters have gathered around the police station in Slovyansk, which is about 90 kilometers (55 miles) south of Ukraine’s...

Maoists kill 14 in India amid nationwide elections

Maoist rebels have killed at least 14 people in separate bomb attacks in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh as the country holds parliamentary elections. The first attack killed seven people including election officials and wounded five others when a landmine blast targeted their bus...

Top Turkish court rejects judicial control

Turkey’s constitutional court on Friday overturned sections of a controversial reform tightening the government’s grip on the judiciary, local media said. This is considered to be a blow to the reform seen as part of a bid by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to snuff out a corruption...

Iraqi deputy PM escapes attack

Two explosive devices have targeted Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saleh Mutlaq’s convoy, but the official escaped what appears to have been an assassination attempt, Al Arabiya’s correspondent reported. Parliamentarian Talal al-Zawobaie, who accompanied Mutlaq while on a visit to villages...

Mass stabbing leaves 20 injured at US high school

At least 19 students were injured along with a security guard after a teenager armed with knives went on a rampage at a high school in the US State of Pennsylvania. Dan Stevens, deputy emergency management coordinator for the Westmoreland County told reporters that the suspected attacker who is...

Huge blast in Rawalpindi leaves 23 dead, 120 others injured

At least 23 people were killed and nearly 120 others were injured following an explosion in Rawalpindi near Islamabad on Wednesday. According to Pakistan officials, the incident took place in Sabzi Mandi area, fruit and vegetable market located on the border of the twin city Islamabad and Rawalpindi. The...

Kerry: Russian agents �create chaos� in Ukraine

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accused Russia on Tuesday of sending its agents into eastern Ukraine to “create chaos,” saying Moscow could be trying to lay the groundwork for military action like in Crimea. “Everything that we’ve seen in the last 48 hours, from Russian...

Iraqi forces kill 25 ISIS militants in ambush

Iraqi soldiers ambushed a gathering of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) near Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 25 amid worries insurgents are encroaching on the capital weeks ahead of elections. The capital’s security spokesman Brigadier General Saad Maan said the militants were part of...

United Nations warns of drought crisis in Syria

The UN’s food aid agency warned on Tuesday that Syria was facing a drought that could put millions of people’s lives at risk, compounding the impact of years of war.“WFP is concerned about the impact of a looming drought hitting the northwest of the country — mainly Aleppo, Idlib,...