Afghan security officials inspect the site of a bomb blast in Kunduz, Afghanistan, yesterday. According to media reports, four civilians were injured in...
Afghan security officials inspect the site of a bomb blast in Kunduz, Afghanistan, yesterday. According to media reports, four civilians were injured in...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s powerful army chief vowed yesterday to thwart any ‘aggression’ against the country, in a thinly-veiled warning to arch rival India after...
ISLAMABAD: A counter has been established at the Islamabad airport to scan passengers coming to Pakistan from African countries for the symptoms of...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will visit China in the first week of November on the invitation of President Xi Jinping. The...
Hong Kong’s riot policemen stand guard (left) and use pepper spray in the latest clash with pro-democracy protesters in Mong Kok District, Hong...
Supporters hold candles during mass prayers in Jakarta yesterday for President-elect Joko Widodo and Vice President-elect Jusuf Kalla who will both be sworn-in...
MANILA: The United States said yesterday it would comply with a Philippine prosecutor’s order to produce a murder suspect and four other US...
SEOUL: A South Korean official handling safety measures at a concert where 16 people died apparently committed suicide hours after the tragedy which...
MANILA: A German couple kidnapped by Islamic militants were handed over to their embassy yesterday after a six-month ordeal marked by constant threats...
PHNOM PENH: Defence lawyers for two ex-Khmer Rouge leaders said yesterday they would boycott a new genocide trial until they appealed the pair’s...
Demonstrators holding placards take part in the ‘Britain Needs a Pay Rise’ march in London yesterday. LONDON: At least 80,000 people marched through...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama urged against “hysteria or fear” yesterday in the face of a growing Ebola crisis, as the United Nations...
MAIDUGURI: Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed dozens of people in five attacks on Nigerian villages that occurred after the government announced a...
ATHENS: Greece’s radical leftist Syriza party would beat Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ New Democracy party if an election were held now, but its...
KINSHASA: Suspected Ugandan rebels killed at least 23 people overnight in their second attack near the eastern Congolese town of Beni in 48...
HAMILTON: Hurricane Gonzalo made a direct hit on Bermuda as a strong category two storm, knocking down trees, damaging a hospital and plunging...
Bangalore/Chennai: Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa yesterday walked out of a Bangalore jail after bail formalities were completed and reached Chennai...
Forest workers remove the carcass of a male elephant with an excavator in a paddy field after it was electrocuted at Rakamjote village...
