Both sides in Afghanistan's 17-year war have kept up attacks this winter, with the Taliban inflicting a heavy toll on government forces, and the US military and their government allies killing Taliban field commanders with air strikes. At the same time, tentative peace efforts have been under with US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad holding three rounds of talks with the Taliban, although the insurgents called off a fourth round this week. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2RgvJAB
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced a cyberstalker to 24 years in jail for blackmailing 200 lady doctors and nurses through their social media accounts - the maximum punishment awarded to a convict in the offence related to social media crimes in the country's history. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2RF4ChP
Duesseldorf — the country's third-largest airport — said in a statement that 370 of Thursday's 580 planned departures had to be cancelled. News agency DPA reported that the walkout, slated to last from 3:00 am (0200 GMT) to midnight (1100 GMT), was expected to affect around 100,000 travellers. from Europe News Headlines, Latest Europe News and Live Updates - Times of India http://bit.ly/2Cgcixd
With another nuclear summit looming between Kim and US President Donald Trump, a meeting between President Xi Jinping and the North Korean leader was inevitable, according to analysts. It has become something of a ritual: Last year, Kim briefed Xi before and after his historic summits with Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2D0b5vE
Ranil Wickremesinghe said his government was scrambling to raise $1.9 billion to help service a first debt payment of $2.6 billion, that is due on Monday. Sri Lanka faces $5.9 billion in foreign debt repayments in 2019, a record for the cash-strapped island. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2D0EDJD
Iraq is closing its camps for the displaced in the country's western Anbar province, a little over a year since it fought its last battle against the Islamic State group, but well before it's gotten a handle on reconstruction. The closures are casting vulnerable families into a maelstrom of peril. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2LZuVtO
The US troop withdrawal from Syria will not be scuppered despite Turkish threats against Washington's Kurdish allies there, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, promising to ensure that the Kurds would still be protected. Pompeo met leaders in Iraq's capital and its semi-autonomous Kurdistan region on Wednesday, aiming to reassure them about Washington's plans. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2VDvM8d
Ahmed Douma was arrested in 2013 on charges of clashing with security forces in Cairo two years earlier, and received a 25-year prison sentence in 2015. But the court of cassation overturned the ruling in October 2017 and ordered a retrial, which concluded on Wednesday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2TzOPOO
In response to Corbyn, the chairman of May's Conservative Party said Labour did not have a plan for Brexit. UK lawmakers are due to vote next Tuesday on May's plans and are widely expected to defeat them after she failed to win over the Northern Irish party that props up her minority government. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2VEwNwx
Tiffany & Co, which sold over $500 million worth of diamond engagement rings in 2017, is hoping to change that. Beginning Wednesday, it will start a programme that will tell customers the countries where their diamond was mined, and, eventually, information on where it was cut, polished and set. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2FnyRDn
Congo opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi has won the long-delayed presidential election, the electoral commission announced early Thursday to the surprise of many, as the vast country braced for possible protests over alleged rigging. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2QxDg8J
Trump again suggested poor forest management is to blame for California's deadly wildfires and said he's ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to stop giving the state money "unless they get their act together." from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2D1PMKh
Police say they have no suspects in the disappearance of Anne-Elisabeth Falkevik Hagen, the 68-year-old wife of Tom Hagen — a media-shy real estate investor and owner of an electric company. He is number 172 on a list of Norway's wealthiest people published by the financial magazine Kapital, with a fortune that amounted to nearly 1.7 billion kroner ($200 million) in 2018. from Europe News Headlines, Latest Europe News and Live Updates - Times of India http://bit.ly/2TzcGhs
Mehdi Nemmouche stands accused of carrying out Europe's first attack by an Islamist fighter returning from the war in Syria. But his journey from a French foster home to a Brussels court began not in a Middle Eastern desert but in a run-down industrial town. The 33-year-old Nemmouche goes on trial on Thursday for four anti-Semitic murders during a shooting spree at Belgium's Jewish Museum. from Europe News Headlines, Latest Europe News and Live Updates - Times of India http://bit.ly/2D0lLuh
Trump again suggested poor forest management is to blame for California's deadly wildfires and said he's ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to stop giving the state money "unless they get their act together." from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2D1PMKh
Police say they have no suspects in the disappearance of Anne-Elisabeth Falkevik Hagen, the 68-year-old wife of Tom Hagen — a media-shy real estate investor and owner of an electric company. He is number 172 on a list of Norway's wealthiest people published by the financial magazine Kapital, with a fortune that amounted to nearly 1.7 billion kroner ($200 million) in 2018. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2TzcGhs
Mehdi Nemmouche stands accused of carrying out Europe's first attack by an Islamist fighter returning from the war in Syria. But his journey from a French foster home to a Brussels court began not in a Middle Eastern desert but in a run-down industrial town. The 33-year-old Nemmouche goes on trial on Thursday for four anti-Semitic murders during a shooting spree at Belgium's Jewish Museum. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2D0lLuh
"Just left a meeting with Chuck and Nancy, a total waste of time. I asked what is going to happen in 30 days if I quickly open things up, are you going to approve Border Security which includes a Wall or Steel Barrier? Nancy said, NO. I said bye-bye, nothing else works!," Trump wrote on Twitter. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2RDm8TS
"Just left a meeting with Chuck and Nancy, a total waste of time. I asked what is going to happen in 30 days if I quickly open things up, are you going to approve Border Security which includes a Wall or Steel Barrier? Nancy said, NO. I said bye-bye, nothing else works!," Trump wrote on Twitter. from US News Headlines, Latest USA News, America Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2RDm8TS