MANILA: Philippine authorities have given privileged inmates in the country’s main prison until Christmas Eve to turn over their hidden guns, drugs and...
MANILA: Philippine authorities have given privileged inmates in the country’s main prison until Christmas Eve to turn over their hidden guns, drugs and...
TOKYO: Scientists in Japan have developed a sticky sheet of tiny sensors that can be put directly on moving joints, beating hearts or...
Children play on a swing in what remains of the park of Safir Maalula Hotel, in the ancient Christian town of Maalula, 56km...
Police spray water cannon to disperse a rally making its way to Kizilay Square in Turkey’s capital Ankara, as teachers demonstrated against the...
Employees from the Independent High Authority for Elections unload ballot boxes from a military vehicle for distribution to polling centres in the governorate...
Yemeni women take part in a protest against the Shia Houthi insurgency, in Sana’a, yesterday.
CAIRO: Egypt said yesterday it supports a draft resolution submitted by the Palestinians to the UN Security Council setting out terms for a...
CAIRO: Egypt is to reopen the Rafah border crossing with Gaza today for the second time in two months to allow those stranded...
MANAMA: A bomb blast in a Shia Muslim village in Bahrain late on Friday injured three policemen, the interior ministry said, in a...
CAIRO: Egypt received 10 Apache helicopters from the United States in the past week, security sources said yesterday, a sign of easing tensions...
BEIRUT: The Islamic State group has publicly executed a Syrian it accused of planting tracking devices for deadly regime air strikes, SITE Intelligence...
LONDON: The Islamic State extremist group has executed 100 of its own foreign fighters who tried to flee their headquarters in the Syrian...
KHARTOUM: Sudan’s electoral body said yesterday it had postponed elections planned for next year by 11 days to April 13, without giving reasons...
UNITED NATIONS: Israel was asked by the UN General Assembly on Friday to compensate Lebanon for $856.4m in oil spill damages it caused...
UNITED NATIONS: A former Somali warlord who renounced his alliance with the Islamist Shebab group this summer was removed from a UN sanctions...
AMMAN: Jordan’s main opposition Islamist party threatened yesterday to take legal action against anyone in the kingdom who signs a controversial gas deal...
ALGIERS: Algerian soldiers shot dead three Islamist gunmen yesterday in the Boumerdes area around 50 kilometres east of the capital, the defence ministry...
Visitors sign their names on a blackboard at Qatar Foundation’s National Day celebrations tent at Darb Al Saai. DOHA: Qatar Foundation (QF) wrapped...