MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin blamed the West for worsening relations with Russia since the Ukraine crisis and said Moscow would not allow itself...
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin blamed the West for worsening relations with Russia since the Ukraine crisis and said Moscow would not allow itself...
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis conferred sainthood on two Indians and four Italians yesterday, praising their “creative” commitment to helping the poor. Francis added...
NAIROBI: Kenyan security forces have pursued and killed more than 100 militants and destroyed their camp in Somalia after the ambush of a...
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is fiercely protective of his private life, said yesterday that his two daughters — who had reportedly...
FERGUSON: After a fourth straight night of low-level protests in Ferguson, Missouri, anxious residents still did not know yesterday when a grand jury...
OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso authorities issued a decree yesterday announcing an interim government, with President Michel Kafando and prime minister Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Zida...
Afghan National Army soldiers parade during a graduation ceremony in Kabul yesterday.
Children play with a bicycle near the Ravi river on the outskirts of Lahore yesterday. Government statistics estimate the literacy rate at 58...
A security official stands by as Iranian students gather during a protest in front of the Tehran Research Nuclear Reactor in Tehran, yesterday....
Palestinians climb a gate during a rally calling on Egyptian authorities to open the Rafah border crossing, at the crossing in the southern...
ARBIL: Kurdish forces in northern Iraq are drawing up plans to break Islamic State’s siege of Sinjar mountain, where hundreds of minority Yazidis...
JERUSALEM: Israeli prosecutors charged a policeman yesterday in the fatal shooting of a teenage Palestinian protester, accusing him of deliberately switching his rubber...
TUNIS: Tunisians went to the polls yesterday to vote for their first directly elected president, in the final step to be taken to ...
GAZA: Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian in the Gaza Strip near the border with Israel yesterday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, the...
BAGHDAD: An Iraqi court sentenced former Sunni MP Ahmed Al Alwani to death yesterday for murder, a verdict that could damage Baghdad’s ties...
KHOST, Afghanistan: About 50 people were killed and 60 others wounded when a suicide blast ripped through large crowds gathered to watch a...
ISLAMABAD: In a major breakthrough in bilateral relations after Moscow recently lifted an embargo on arms sales to Islamabad, defence authorities of Pakistan...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government has delayed 11 surveys of national accounts which would help determine fresh economic growth rate of the country. At...