Amman--Iraqi troops will begin a ground offensive "in the weeks ahead" to take back swathes of the country seized by the Islamic State...
Amman--Iraqi troops will begin a ground offensive "in the weeks ahead" to take back swathes of the country seized by the Islamic State...
London--Thousands of British Muslims protested against cartoons of Mohammed in French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in a demonstration near the office of Prime...
Washington --US President Barack Obama hosts Angela Merkel at the White House on Monday, as worsening violence in Ukraine confronts them with a...
Sydney--Lawyers for two Australians facing imminent execution in Bali said Monday they plan to launch a rare challenge against the Indonesian president's refusal...
Kiev--The leaders of Ukraine, Germany and France are pushing for a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in a frantic bid...
Seoul--New US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed the need to sustain sanctions pressure on Pyongyang as he held talks Monday in...
Hanoi--The website of an outspoken Vietnamese newspaper has had its licence revoked after publishing articles which "abuse freedom and democratic rights," authorities said...
Cairo--Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Egypt on Monday as Moscow looks to expand its reach in the Arab world's most populous country at...
Singapore--Singapore police said Monday they were investigating after Facebook posts showing photographs of bullets were addressed to the prime minister of the city-state,...
Tokyo--Tokyo defended Monday its confiscation of the passport of a Japanese journalist planning to travel to Syria, as the country reels from the...
Cairo--Egyptian authorities said Monday that 19 people had been killed in a crush at a Cairo stadium, lowering an earlier toll and saying...
Seoul--South Korea's former spy chief was jailed for three years Monday after an appeals court ruled that he had intentionally sought to influence...
New Delhi--An Indian "woman" who discovered she had mostly male chromosomes has given birth to healthy twins after intensive treatment in what doctors...
Mogadishu--Gunmen shot dead a lawmaker in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday, a fellow MP said, the latest in a string of assassinations...
Bangkok--Thailand's toppled former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been banned from travelling overseas because graft charges carrying up to a decade in jail...
Sydney--Australia's frenetic leadership challenges, fuelled by poor opinion polls and internal party unease, could leave it trapped in a cycle of political crisis...
Sydney--A Japanese surfer was killed Monday after both his legs were apparently bitten off by a shark in eastern Australia, a day after...
Singapore--Two young German men will plead guilty to vandalism, an offence punishable by caning, after spray-painting a metro train in Singapore, their lawyer...
