KHARTOUM: Five people were killed and more than 20 wounded yesterday when rebels shelled the capital of Sudan’s South Kordofan state, official radio...
KHARTOUM: Five people were killed and more than 20 wounded yesterday when rebels shelled the capital of Sudan’s South Kordofan state, official radio...
DUBAI: Iran derided Israel’s air defences as feeble yesterday, citing a drone incursion into its arch-foe’s airspace, but did not say it had...
NOUAKCHOTT: Mauritania and Algeria have called for dialogue in a bid to reach a political solution to the six-month-old crisis in neighbouring Mali,...
A wounded Palestinian boy speaks on the phone with his family following an Israeli air strike in Rafah camp in the southern Gaza...
CAIRO: US-based Human Rights Watch yesterday urged Egyptians drawing up a new constitution to amend the current draft which it said did not...
ADEN: Tribesmen yesterday kidnapped eight people, among them two Syrians and two Saudis, in southwestern Yemen in a bid to secure the release...
SANA’A: Yemen has dismantled a spy ring that included Iranians who entered the country posing as investors looking to set up a factory,...
DUBAI: Human Rights Watch yesterday urged Bahrain’s King H M Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa to reverse the convictions of nine medics for...
A pensioner tosses a burning Europe flag during a protest in Athens, Greece, yesterday. Greece’s two major umbrella labour federations, GSEE and ADEDY,...
STOCKHOLM: Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and John Gurdon of Britain won the Nobel Prize yesterday for work in cell programming, a frontier that...
CARACAS: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pledged to deepen his socialist revolution after a comfortable election victory that could extend his divisive leadership of...
LEXINGTON, Va: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney offered a sweeping critique of President Barack Obama’s handling of threats in the Middle East yesterday...
JOHANNESBURG: Striking miners briefly blocked Anglo American Platinum’s only working shaft in South Africa yesterday after the firm last week sacked 12,000 workers,...
PRAGUE: The Czech Republic’s long-running corruption scandal among high officials boiled up again yesterday when Czech police brought charges against a close associate...
KADUNA, Nigeria: Nigerian forces said yesterday they killed 30 members of Islamist sect Boko Haram, including a senior commander, and arrested 10 others...
People march on a street as they mark World Habitat Day near the National Assembly in central Phnom Penh yesterday. Residents of Boeung...
SEOUL: South Korea’s president and Japan’s premier exchanged advice yesterday on remaining “mature” and “cool-headed” but offered no concessions over a bitter territorial...
SUBIC: The Philippines said yesterday a former US naval base facing the South China Sea could play a key role as a hub...
