Turkey’s prime minister said Monday that the Islamic State terror group (ISIS) was suspected of carrying out Saturday’s double suicide bombing at a peace demonstration in Ankara that killed at least 97 people.
In what looks like a last-ditch effort to revive the India-Pakistan series in December, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) president Shahryar Khan has been advised to call Shashank Manohar, the newly-elected president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
This was also the batsman’s third half-century in Galle. Among the batsmen, Kraigg Brathwaite has been in reasonable form in domestic cricket and is likely to be partnered at the top by Rajendra Chandrika, who opened with him in the tour game.
A few 200 passengers were affected last Thursday when Samjhota Express was stopped at the Wagah Border by the Indian authorities citing potential security risks due to protests by farmers in Indian Punjab.
Mohamed Fahmy, a Canadian-born Al Jazeera journalist recently released from prison in Egypt, had strong words for his country’s prime minister, Stephen Harper, saying at a press conference on Tuesday he felt “betrayed and abandoned” by the conservative politician.
He continued to maintain that New Democrats are only a few dozen seats short of unseating the Conservatives – notwithstanding that every party starts with zero seats when Parliament is dissolved and a new general election campaign begins.
He said that he himself investigated the allegation related to the transfer of voters from one constituency to another and enlisting of a new voters list for the NA-122 during the last 36 hours but did not find any such wrongdoing on the part of the Nadra officials.
Park Sung-hyun, a three-time victor on the Korea LPGA (KLPGA) Tour in 2015, shot a bogey-free round of 10-under 62 to open the LPGA KEB Hana Bank Championship at Ocean Course at Sky 72 Golf & Resort in Incheon, west of Seoul.
Education secretary Nicky Morgan has defended claims her party has made a U-turn on its stance on selective schools after allowing a grammar school to expand on to a new site.
John Carlin, the assistant attorney general for national security, announced on Wednesday that the position was filled this week, report NBC News, the Hill and CBS News.
At AUSMIN this week, US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter made perhaps a few of his strongest remarks on the subject: “Make no mistake, the United States will fly, sail and operate wherever worldwide law allows, as we do around the world, and the South China Sea will not be...