DUBAI: Bahrain must lift its total ban on opposition protests, which violates the right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, rights group...
DUBAI: Bahrain must lift its total ban on opposition protests, which violates the right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, rights group...
TRIPOLI: Libya’s national assembly gave its approval yesterday to a cabinet presented by prime minister designate Ali Zeidan weeks after rejecting his predecessor’s...
TUNIS: Dozens of Islamists, some of them armed, took to the streets of the Tunisian capital yesterday after deadly clashes at night, but...
RAMALLAH, West Bank: An official close to the Palestinian prime minister says he is threatening to resign. The official says Salam Fayyad believes...
Queen Elizabeth II escorts Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (centre), as she introduces the Chiefs of Staff of British Armed Forces, during the...
LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron suffered his first significant parliamentary defeat yesterday after rebels in his Conservative party joined the Labour opposition...
PRISTINA: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday said that Kosovo’s unilaterally declared independence, fiercely opposed by Serbia, was not debatable and urged...
ROME: Italy’s government adopted an anti-corruption law yesterday in a bid to clamp down on scandals riddling right and left-wing parties as recession-hit...
LONDON: Late British TV star Jimmy Savile, who has been accused of sex abuse, regularly took teenage girls on late night trips to...
PARIS: French President Francois Hollande yesterday said that he wanted “concrete acts” from Iran to prove it was not pursuing a nuclear arms...
Residents of an eight-storey building in the Firj Abdul Aziz area were evacuated by the Police and Civil Defence personnel late last night...
Boats washed ashore by Hurricane Sandy lie scattered around a house near Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, yesterday. NEW YORK: The US Northeast began...
DOHA: The Qatar Meat and Livestock Company, popularly known as Mawashi, is all set to enter the poultry business in a big way...
(Courtesy: AlRiyadh.com) RIYADH: A fire sparked by celebratory gunfire has killed at least 25 people at a wedding in Saudi Arabia, media reported...
Khalid Al Sayed EDITOR-IN-CHIEF With only a few days left for the US presidential elections, President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt...
NEW DELHI: Indian automaker Tata Motors has the potential to reach a market cap of $30 billion by fiscal 2017, Investment bank Goldman...
DUBAI: The Abu Dhabi government plans to meet fixed-income investors in Asia during the second week of November for three days of roadshows,...
KADUNA, Nigeria: Gunmen suspected to be armed robbers have killed 20 people in a village in the northwest Nigerian state of Zamfara, authorities...