KIEV: Moscow has announced it will recognise separatist polls in Ukraine next weekend, fuelling tensions with the country’s newly elected pro-western leaders as...
KIEV: Moscow has announced it will recognise separatist polls in Ukraine next weekend, fuelling tensions with the country’s newly elected pro-western leaders as...
Burkina Faso riot police face opposition supporters in Ouagadougou yesterday as hundreds battled police after a mass rally against plans to let the...
MEXICO CITY: Mexico recoiled in fresh horror yesterday over the discovery of yet another mass grave, in the futile monthlong search for 43...
ATLANTA: The second of two American nurses who became infected with Ebola while treating a Liberian man who died of the disease in...
OTTAWA: Thousands of mourners lined the streets of the Canadian city of Hamilton yesterday for the funeral procession of a soldier killed last...
UNITED NATIONS: For the 23rd straight year, the United Nations voted yesterday in favour of lifting the US embargo on Cuba, with Iran...
LONDON: Armed soldiers have been deployed at a top tourist attraction in the heart of London’s government district as a precautionary measure after...
GENEVA: Ebola vaccine trials are set to start in Switzerland this week after receiving the green light from the country’s authorities, the World...
ROME: Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano testified for more than three hours yesterday in an unprecedented appearance in a major trial that accuses the...
HARARE: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe opened parliament yesterday, steering clear of a succession struggle raging in his ZANU-PF party following his wife’s sensational...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (left) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speak at a function in New Delhi yesterday. New Delhi:...
A camel herder walks his camels at Pushkar Fair in Rajasthan yesterday. Thousands of animals, mainly camels, are brought to the fair to...
A worker cleans the banks of Yamuna river on the eve of the Chhath festival in New Delhi yesterday. Chhath is an ancient...
Sheikh Ali Salman, Secretary General of Al Wefaq (centre), meets top members of the party during a closed-door meeting in Manama yesterday. DUBAI:...
A convoy of Kurdish peshmerga fighters drive through Arbil after leaving a base in northern Iraq, on their way to Kobani, yesterday. ARBIL/MURSITPINAR:...
From left: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam, German Minister for Economic Cooperation Gerd Mueller and President of the...
Workers clean the area in front of the new Turkish Presidential Palace prior to an official reception on Republic Day in Ankara, Turkey,...
JERUSALEM: An Israeli official denied yesterday the existence of a blanket ban on Palestinians sharing buses with settlers in the occupied West Bank,...