A student opened fire at a university campus in central Russia on Monday killing at least eight people, investigators said, in the second mass shooting at an education facility this year. Russia’s Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes, said several people were also injured in the attack at Perm State University and that the suspect مزید پڑھیں

France on Friday recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia in a ferocious row over the scrapping of a submarine contract, an unprecedented step that revealed the extent of French anger against its allies. President Emmanuel Macron recalled the envoys after Canberra ditched a deal to buy French submarines in favour of US مزید پڑھیں

Former president Ashraf Ghani’s abrupt exit last month scuttled a deal under which the Taliban would hold off entering Kabul and negotiate a political transition, the US negotiator on Afghanistan said on Wednesday. In his first interview since the collapse of the 20-year Western-backed government, Zalmay Khalilzad, who brokered a deal with the Taliban last مزید پڑھیں

US State Department Thursday said that Washington was in regular touch with Pakistan over Afghanistan’s issue. Addressing a media briefing, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said, “We have been in regular touch with Pakistani counterparts as well as Pakistani leadership. We’ve discussed Afghanistan in some detail.” Responding to a question about US State Secretary مزید پڑھیں

The US has made it clear to Pakistan that it does not want Islamabad to recognise the Taliban government until it doesn’t give women their due rights and allows Afghans who want to leave the country, to do so. In the first public hearing in Congress about Afghanistan since last month’s collapse of the US-backed مزید پڑھیں

Taliban have taken over the glitzy Kabul mansion of one of their fiercest enemies — the warlord and fugitive ex-vice president Abdul Rashid Dostum. Now in the hands of rank and file Taliban fighters, the opulent villa has given the austere group a peek into the lives of Afghanistan’s former rulers, and they say the مزید پڑھیں

A group of Stanford University professors has asked the Justice Department to stop looking for Chinese spies at US universities, joining an effort by human rights groups to end a Trump administration programme they said caused racial profiling and was terrorising some scientists. The “China Initiative” launched in late 2018 aimed to prevent US technology مزید پڑھیں

President Joe Biden, speaking unexpectedly during a visit to the Pennsylvania site of one of the 9/11 plane crashes, again defended the widely criticized withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying the US could not “invade” every country where Al-Qaeda is present. “Could Al-Qaeda come back (in Afghanistan)?” he asked in an exchange with reporters outside a Shanksville مزید پڑھیں

The fear assaults of September 11, 2001 were based on the East Coast, yet its impact was felt in virtually all edges of the country. In front of Saturday’s commemoration, paper editors around the US are distributing amazing front pages with remarkable stories that catch how nearby networks are as yet wrestling with the misfortune مزید پڑھیں

US President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke for 90 minutes in their first talks in seven months on Thursday, discussing the need to avoid letting competition between the world’s two largest economies veer into conflict. The US side said the “proof will be in the pudding” as to whether the stalemate can مزید پڑھیں