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All black, the size of a human thumb, Wallace’s bee, the largest in the world, had not been seen for decades: researchers announced Thursday to have finally found on a remote island of Indonesia. “It was breathtaking to see this + flying bulldog +”, commented in a statement from Global Wildlife Conservation naturalist photographer Clay Bolt who found a natural …

United States President Donald Trump has said that his government will comment on last week’s suicide bombing in Pulwama — that killed more than 40 Indian troops — at “an appropriate time”. Trump, while answering a question from the media regarding the attack, said: “I have watched; I have got a lot of reports on it. We will have comment [on it] at an …

BAGHOUZ: A convoy of trucks carrying hundreds of civilians, including men, women and children, left the last enclave held by IS militants in eastern Syria on Wednesday, signalling a possible end to a standoff that has lasted for more than a week. The tiny enclave on the banks of the Euphrates River is the final scrap of territory left to …

LONDON: A British teenager who joined the so-called Islamic State group in Syria said on Wednesday she was shocked by a government decision to revoke her citizenship and was considering applying to settle in The Netherlands, the homeland of her husband. Shamima Begum, who travelled to Syria in 2015 and now wants to return to Britain after giving birth in …

LONDON: Children of foreign fighters must have the right to belong to a country, lawyers and the United Nations said on Wednesday, after Britain stripped the citizenship of a teenage mother who travelled to Syria at 15 to join IS. The fate of Shamima Begum, who was found in a refugee camp in Syria last week, has illustrated the ethical, …

LONDON: Brexit-driven cracks in Britain’s political party system yawned wider on Wednesday, as three pro-European lawmakers quit the ruling Conservatives to join a new centrist group of independents who oppose the Conservative government’s determination to take Britain out of the European Union with or without a divorce deal. Anna Soubry, Heidi Allen and Sarah Wollaston resigned to join eight ex-opposition …

KABUL: Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Pakistani ambassador on Wednesday over his remarks that Afghan peace talks could be affected if India resorted to violence after last week’s attack on Indian paramilitary police in held-Kashmir. In a statement issued after the meeting with Ambassador Zahid Nasrullah, the Foreign Ministry said it deemed his comments to be “in contradiction with Pakistan’s …

A man with a history of mental illness wounded 11 people with a knife after attacking random pedestrians in central China, local authorities said on Thursday. The suspect, a 33-year-old man named Guo Kaibin, is already in police custody, according to a social media notice posted by police in Ji’an, a city in central Jiangxi province. Citing Guo’s family, local …

At least 69 people have died in a huge blaze that tore through apartment buildings also used as chemical warehouses in an old part of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, fire officials said on Thursday. Dozens of people were trapped in the buildings, unable to escape onto narrow streets clogged with traffic, as the highly combustible stores of chemicals, body sprays …

SENIOR lawyer Harish Salve representing India in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case before the International Court of Justice replied to Pakistan’s submissions on Wednesday, the third day of the four-day hearing, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, seat of the Court. India’s reply, which was afforded one and a half hours by the principal judicial organ of the UN, commenced with taking …