Tradition dictates that Muslims slaughter a sheep during Monday's Eid al-Adha festival, and despite the military lockdown in Kashmir's main city Srinagar, Bashir Ahmad was determined to respect the custom. But after driving more than 20 kilometres (12.4 miles) from his home on the...

A Russian man with diabetes was in a serious condition in hospital Sunday after being detained over opposition protests and deprived of insulin, Russian media reported. Dmitry Vasilyev, a 43-year-old television director who was detained for "mass disorder" at a recent Moscow protest,...

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan asked Sunday if the international community would stand by as Indian Hindu nationalism spread into Muslim-majority Kashmir, saying it was the same as appeasing Hitler. His outrage on Twitter came as tensions simmered between the two countries over the...

Indian authorities on Sunday mounted major rescue and relief efforts as the death toll from monsoon floods which cut off roads in the country's south and west rose to at least 144. The southern state of Kerala -- a popular tourist haven known for its pristine beaches, hill resorts and...

A French man was charged in Greece on Sunday over a boat accident that left two dead and another person seriously injured, state TV ERT reported. The 44-year-old was charged with negligent manslaughter by a prosecutor and given 24 hours to prepare his defence, ERT said. The...

Andy Murray has entered next month's Zhuhai Championships and China Open as the former world number one steps up his singles return. Murray will compete in his first singles event at next week's Cincinnati Masters, seven months after his tearful revelation in Australia that his career...

Tanzania was in mourning Sunday, preparing to bury the dead after 64 people perished when a crashed fuel tanker exploded as crowds rushed to syphon off leaking petrol. President John Magufuli declared a period of mourning through Monday following the deadly blast near the town of...

Close to 2.5 million pilgrims took part in a symbolic stoning of the devil in the final days of the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, as Muslims around the world marked the start of the Eid al-Adha celebrations. In Mina, pilgrims spend the final days of hajj throwing pebbles at a pillar...

A Palestinian who shot at Israeli soldiers along the Gaza border Sunday was killed when troops returned fire, the army and Hamas' Health Ministry said, in the third such incident in recent days. Israel's army said in a statement that the Palestinian shot toward troops, who returned...

A coalition said Sunday that it had launched a strike apparently against southern separatists in Yemen after they seized the presidential palace in the second city of Aden. The seizure, decried by the Riyadh-backed Yemeni government as a coup supported by the United Arab Emirates,...

 Israeli police and Palestinian worshippers clashed at a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site Sunday as overlapping Jewish and Muslim holidays led to tensions there. Police fired sound grenades as Palestinian protests intensified at the highly sensitive Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, known to...

Tens of thousands of Muscovites staged Russia’s biggest political protest for years on Saturday, rallying to demand free city-wide elections in spite of a government crackdown. Hours before the demonstration, police detained one of the leading opposition activists, Lyubov Sobol, who is on a...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Kim Jong Un told him he was ready to resume talks on North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs and would stop missile testing as soon as U.S.-South Korea military exercises end. Trump and Kim have met twice since their first summit in...

Hong Kong police fired volleys of tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters on Saturday - sending tourists fleeing weeping in Kowloon - only for demonstrators to regroup and gather elsewhere during another tense, hot and restive weekend. Weeks of increasingly violent protests have...

Iran’s armed forces chief of staff on Saturday cautioned Pakistan and India to avoid any “hasty decision” in Kashmir without considering the wishes of the region’s people, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. Pakistan reacted with fury this week after India revoked the special...

 Disgraced U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein has committed suicide in prison while awaiting trial on charges that he trafficked underage girls for sex, officials and media reported Saturday, sparking an FBI investigation. Epstein, a convicted pedophile who befriended numerous politicians...

At least 60 people perished in Tanzania Saturday when a fuel tanker overturned and then exploded as crowds of people rushed to syphon off leaking fuel. The deadly blast, which took place near the town of Morogoro, west of the economic capital Dar es Salaam, is the latest in a series of...

The coalition-backed Yemeni government accused southern separatists of staging a coup in Aden after their fighters took over all military camps in the southern port city, seat of the internationally recognized government, on Saturday. "What is happening in the temporary [government] capital...

The U.S. military says a U.S. service member has died during a combat mission with Iraqi security forces in Iraq's north. The statement by the U.S Central Command said the service member died Saturday in Iraq's northern Nineveh province. The service member was advising and accompanying...

A car bomb explosion in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi killed two United Nations' staff Saturday, several medical sources said. The U.N. is trying to broker a truce in the capital Tripoli, where the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) launched a surprise attack in April. A...