WASHINGTON: An Indian has been sentenced to three years of imprisonment in the US on charges of trafficking immigrants from India into the country. Kaushik Jayantibhai Thakkar, 33, along with Brazilian national Fabiano Augusto Amorim were sentenced yesterday to serve 36 months in prison for their roles in smuggling undocumented migrants to the US for private financial gain, Acting Assistant US Attorney General Mythili Raman said.

LAHORE: A Pakistani judge investigating the murder of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh has appealed to Indian nationals having information about the matter to file written submissions with relevant documents within seven days. Justice Syed Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi of the Lahore High Court is investigating the death of Sarabjit following a brutal assault by prisoners within Kot Lakhpat Jail.

PARIS: A million dollars' worth of jewellery to be worn by celebrities at the Cannes film festival has been stolen, according to French police. The items, which were snatched from the room of a Chopard employee at the Hotel Novotel, were in a security box, which was smashed and taken away. The creations by the Swiss luxury jeweller had been scheduled to be worn on the red carpet

BUENOS AIRES: Former dictator Jorge Videla, who ruled Argentina during its "Dirty War," died in prison Friday while serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity. He was 87. Videla, who ruled at the head of a military junta between 1976 and 1981, died of natural causes, C5N television reported. As many as 30,000 people were kidnapped and "disappeared" by the military during an all-out campaign against the left launched by Videla, in which suspected opponents were swept into secret pris

PESHAWAR: Ten persons were killed and 20 others injured when two bombs exploded near two separate mosques in Malakand Division's Bazdara. Deputy Commissioner Malakand Amjad Ali confirmed that the deaths, adding that the number of casualties was expected to increase, reports The Dawn.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani police on Friday claimed they had arrested the leader of the gang that kidnapped former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani’s son Ali Haider, even as security forces were continuing their search for him.

LAHORE: Awais Sheikh, the Pakistani lawyer of slain Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, has told police that the armed men who abducted him and his son were “Pashto-speaking”.

DHAKA: At least 14 people were killed on Thursday as cyclonic storm 'Mahasen' battered Bangladesh's southwestern coastlines, damaging thousands of thatched houses and forcing evacuation of over one million people from low-lying areas. "All the deaths were reported from the southwestern coastlines where the cyclone hit with its maximum strength before being weakened gradually," said a disaster management ministry spokesman.

ISLAMABAD: Six suspects, including two women, were arrested on Thursday during an operation to trace the kidnapped son of former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani in Pakistan’s restive northwest, officials said.

BEIJING: Ahead of his visit to New Delhi, China's new Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday said India and China "must shake hands" to make Asia an "engine of the world economy". Addressing the 100 member Indian youth delegation at Zhongnanhai, the imperial gardens housing the headquarters of China's ruling Communist Party and central government, Li spoke warmly about his visit to India 27 years ago as leader of a youth delegation.

LAHORE: Imran Khan on Wednesday promised to cooperate with Nawaz Sharif to tackle key challenges like terrorism despite "serious political differences" with the PML-N chief who is set to become Pakistan's next Prime Minister. "We have serious political differences but we decided that we will work together to solve the country's problems, including terrorism," the cricketer-turned-politician said in a video message aired at a news conference by his Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf party.

LONDON: Shell shocked! A seemingly invincible pet tortoise in UK, who survived two world wars and even a bomb in the Blitz, has died aged 130 - after being bitten by a rat. Thomas, the oldest tortoise in the UK, had to be put down after being attacked in the garden of its owner’s home in Guernsey by the rodent.

ISLAMABAD: Infighting has broken out in Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf over choosing a chief minister for the crucial Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, with two top leaders jockeying for the position.

OKLAHOMA CITY: A Pakistani human rights activist who founded an all-girls school said the Taliban was "more afraid of the books than bombs" as he and his 15-year-old daughter, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban late last year, were honoured at the memorial for Oklahoma City bombing victims. Ziauddin Yousafzai decried political violence during a ceremony held Monday to honour him and his daughte

WASHIGTON: A passenger was removed from an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to New York on Monday when she would not stop singing Whitney Houston's hit "I Will Always Love You".

BEIRUT: Human Rights Watch and the Syrian opposition National Coalition have condemned a gruesome video apparently showing a Syrian rebel fighter cutting out the heart of a regime soldier and eating it. "International news agencies and social media websites have been circulating a video clip in which a person claiming to be a member of the rebels in Homs performs a horrific and inhumane act," the National Coalition said.

LOS ANGELES: Tributes have been being paid to actress Angelina Jolie who today told the world that she underwent a double mastectomy to cut her risk of breast cancer. The Hollywood star said she took the decision to have three months of medical procedures when doctors told her she had an 87% risk of breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer.

ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's judicial remand over the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in 2007 was extended by a fortnight on Tuesday by an anti-terrorism court.

WASHINGTON: Nawaz Sharif's decision to invite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is a "positive sign", the United States has said and expressed its willingness to work with the new government in Pakistan.