A law enforcement officer has been killed and three others injured in a roadside bomb explosion in the restive Syrian city of Homs. According to Syrian sources, the roadside bomb went off on a highway on Wednesday as a group of law enforcement officers were inspecting the site of an earlier explosion in the area. Two Western journalists have been killed in Homs after shells hit the makeshift media center in ...

NEW DELHI: A former resident of Karachi who has lived in India since 1990 was arrested on Wednesday after he was “lured” by the Inter-Services Intelligence agency into spying for Pakistan, Indian police said. Kamran Akbar arrived in India in 1990, studied in the country and is married to an Indian girl, Ashok Chand, district commissioner of police (crime), said. Chand claimed that Akbar was arrested last we ...

Russia has once again warned Israel of the “catastrophic consequences” of a military attack against Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. "The scenario of military action against Iran would be catastrophic for the region and possibly the whole system of international relations," Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said on Wednesday. “Therefore I hope Israel understands all these con ...

STOCKHOLM: The Swedish artist who created a blasphemous sketch of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) has been pelted with eggs by a group of people during a university lecture on the limits of the freedom of expression. According to a police statement, Lars Vilks was unharmed in the attack that occurred at Karlstad University in southwestern Sweden late Tuesday evening. No one has yet been arrested for the assault, bu ...

Around 340 people have been injured after a packed train derailed and slammed into a railway station platform in Buenos Aires, officials said. The commuter train traveling at high speed is reported to have slammed into the barrier at the end of the platform at the Once station in the west of the city on Wednesday. “There are people still trapped, people alive, and there may have been fatalities. We don't kn ...

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast says Tehran is ready to help identify and hand over the perpetrators behind the recent explosions in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok. Mehmanparast described the claims of Iranian involvement in the bombing attacks as an American and Zionist written scenario that lack any truth. "Iran is prepared to identify those behind the blasts and introduce them to the i ...

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the Iranian nation has never sought and will never seek nuclear weapons as it has the capacity to challenge the nuclear-backed influence such powers rely on. In a Wednesday meeting in Tehran with the director and officials of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) and nuclear scientists the Leader described the country’s nuclear and ...

  WASHINGTON, Feb 22:  Laying down an election-year marker in the debate over taxes, the Obama administration is proposing to cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent, and to seek an even lower effective rate for manufacturers, a senior administration official says. In turn, corporations would have to give up dozens of loopholes and subsidies that they now enjoy. Corporations with overs ...

  AMMAN, Feb 22:  Troops and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad killed at least 27 young men when they raided villages in a northern Syrian province, an opposition activists' group said on Wednesday. The young men, all civilians, were mostly shot in the head or chest in their homes or in streets in the villages of Idita, Iblin and Balshon in Idlib province near the border with Turkey, the Sy ...

Russian Police have arrested more than two dozen people for staging an “unauthorized” rally in the country’s capital Moscow. The individuals held the rally in front of the building of the Central Electoral Commission at Triumfalnaya square in central Moscow on Tuesday. Defying police orders to stop the protest and leave, the activists were arrested and taken to a police station. "Twenty-six people were arre ...