Turkey: Belarusian diplomat shot and wounded by neighbor

ANKARA: A Belarusian diplomat was seriously injured late Wednesday after being shot by an unidentified attacker in the Turkish capital, international media reported. According to
Metals worth millions stolen in Brazil at cargo terminal

SAO PAULO: Armed men stole $40 million of gold and other precious metals on Thursday from a Sao Paulo cargo terminal at South America’s busiest
WhatsApp to launch digital payments service in India

NEW DELHI: Messaging giant WhatsApp plans to launch its first payment service this year in India, its biggest market with 400 million users, the company
Earthquake of 6.3 M strikes near south coast of Japan’s Honshu

An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck near the south coast of Japan’s island of Honshu early on Sunday, the European earthquake monitoring service EMSC reported.
Massive manhunt in wilderness for teen murder suspects

MONTREAL • Two teen triple-murder suspects on the run in the central Canadian wilderness – perhaps holed up in thick, insect-infested forest inhabited by wolves
Hong Kong: police fire teargas as thousands march in Yuen Long

HONG KONG: Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators hurling rocks in a rural Hong Kong town on Saturday as several thousand activists
Interpol refuses to issue Red Corner notice against Zakir Naik

LONDON: The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) has once again refused India’s request to issue a Red Corner Notice against Islamic preacher Dr Zakir Naik
Russia detains nearly 1,400 people in crackdown on Moscow opposition protest

MOSCOW: Russian police rounded up more than 1,4000 people in Moscow on Sunday in one of the biggest crackdowns of recent years against an increasingly