KABUL: Urgent steps are needed to avoid a repeat of the deaths among hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Afghans that occurred during...
KABUL: Urgent steps are needed to avoid a repeat of the deaths among hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Afghans that occurred during...
ISLAMABAD: US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman arrived in Islamabad yesterday for talks with political and military leaders on “issues...
ISLAMABAD: Released in the wake of an armed attack on teenage education activist Malala Yousufzai, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report shows...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top court Friday recommended legal proceedings against a former army chief and head of intelligence for allegedly bankrolling politicians to keep...
This handout photo taken by the Japan Coast Guard yesterday shows a Chinese marine surveillance ship cruising near the disputed islands known as...
MANILA: Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founding chairman Nur Misuari yesterday ruled out efforts by the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for...
SEOUL: North Korea yesterday condemned a recent visit by the South’s President Lee Myung-Bak to an island close to their disputed border and...
Hong Kong: Hong Kong customs officers seized almost four tonnes of ivory worth about $3.4m, hidden in shipments from Kenya and Tanzania, officials...
DHAKA: A Bangladesh court yesterday jailed 723 border guards for their role in a bloody 2009 mutiny, bringing the total number of soldiers...
YANGON: Myanmar’s state newspapers, long mouthpieces of the country’s former junta and army hardliners, signalled a historic change in focus yesterday, announcing a...
TOKYO: Japan and the US are dropping plans for a joint drill to simulate the retaking of a remote island from foreign forces...
An officer detains a demonstrator during a protest march organised by the Trades Union Congress (TUC), in Oxford Street, in London, yesterday. Thousands...
WASHINGTON: With one debate left, President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney are retreating from the campaign trail to bone up on foreign...
REYKJAVIK: Icelanders voted yesterday in a consultative referendum on what has been dubbed the world’s first “crowdsourced constitution”, but turnout was sluggish amid...
MOMBASA, Kenya: Kenya yesterday told members of a separatist group to surrender or face arrest as the east African country intensified a crackdown...
LONDON: British police investigating alleged abuse by BBC presenter Jimmy Savile launched a criminal inquiry on Friday, saying more than 200 potential victims...
BOGOTA: Five soldiers were killed in an overnight attack by leftist Farc rebels, the Colombian army said yesterday, just days after peace talks...
KANO, Nigeria: A wave of attacks by suspected Boko Haram Islamists in northeastern Nigeria has killed at least 23 people and destroyed several...
