AFP, BEIRUT: Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah on Saturday blamed Islamist extremists for killing its top military commander in Syria and vowed to keep fighting to defend President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The movement has deployed thousands of fighters in Syria where Mustafa Badreddine…

AFP, MOSCOW: A Russian yacht has been detained by North Korean coastguards in the Sea of Japan with five crew on board and towed in to land, Russian officials said Saturday. “The North Korean side has communicated that the yacht has been taken to the port of Kimchaek,” Igor Agafonov, a foreign…

AFP, REDZIKOWO, Poland: The United States and Russia on Friday accused each other of mounting an aggressive military presence in northern Europe, with Moscow vowing to “end threats” posed by a US missile shield near its border. The stepped-up war of words came as Poland on Friday broke ground…

AFP, TEHRAN: A contest of anti-Israeli cartoons opened Saturday in the Iranian capital, with many entries deriding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government’s Middle East policies. The exhibition, totalling 150 entries from 50 countries, was launched on the eve of the Palestinian commemoration…

A delivery driver from Luton has been jailed for life, with a minimum term of 12 years, for plotting to kill US personnel outside an air base in UK, reports BBC. Junead Khan, 25, used his job to scout US bases for potential victims. He intended to stage a road accident outside the Lakenheath base and…

AFP, MEXICO CITY: Environmentalists warned Friday that Mexico’s vaquita marina, the world’s smallest porpoise, was close to extinction as…