At least 20 passengers were killed when their commuter minibus was hit by a landmine in Lower Shabelle region of Somalia, officials said. ....

The US has launched a military strike on a Syrian government target in retaliation for their chemical weapons attack on civilians earlier in the week, President Donald Trump told the media. ....

A group of six British parliamentarians from the ruling Conservative Party on Thursday called for a just and early solution to "the lingering Kashmir issue" in accordance with the United Nations Security Council resolutions and the wishes and aspirations of the Kashmiri people. ....

Pakistan on Thursday termed the change in Indias nuclear arms usage policy as "highly irresponsible and dangerous", and said it will "not help in promoting strategic restraint and stability in a nuclearised South Asia". ....

Legal proceedings have been initiated against Apple by the Australian Competition and Consumer Authority (ACCA) for refusing to repair Error 53-affected devices which have been previously touched by a third party repairer. ....

More than 8,000 Uber and Lyft drivers in the US state of Massachusetts have been banned from driving under a new, stricter background check regulations, a media report said. ....

One of the worst chemical bombings in Syria that killed at least 20 innocent children and 50 other persons, sparked an international outrage on Wednesday and prompted the United Nations to call for a probe into the attack and to view it as a possible war crime. ....

At least six Central Asian nationals were detained on Wednesday in St. Petersburg for recruiting individuals for terror related crimes in Russia, the Investigative Committee said on Wednesday. ....

The Islamic State (IS) terror group in a new audio released has used for US President Donald Trump an Arabic term that means "idiot" according to various translations, a media report said. ....

At least 35 persons were killed and 28 injured in a series of attacks carried out by the Islamic State militant group in the Iraqi city of Tikrit, a security source said on Wednesday. ....