SINGAPORE: Maritime authorities across Southeast Asia are scouring the seas for a Vietnamese oil tanker, which has not been heard from for six...
SINGAPORE: Maritime authorities across Southeast Asia are scouring the seas for a Vietnamese oil tanker, which has not been heard from for six...
JAKARTA: The looming release of hundreds of militants from Indonesia’s prisons, hotbeds of radicalism where influential Islamists openly preach extremist ideology, is raising...
KATHMANDU: Nepalese authorities yesterday charged a prominent political activist with treason over calls for a separate homeland for the marginalised Madhesi community living...
YANGON: Only three political prisoners were granted amnesty by the Myanmar government this week and rights group said the release was apparently aimed...
BEIJING: Thousands of rescuers were deployed in southwest China yesterday after a strong earthquake left one person dead and more than 300 injured,...
A September file picture of Afghan men (from left) Safiullah, Nazar Mohammad, Qaisullah, Azizullah, Samiullah, Mustafa, and Jamil, the seven men who gang-raped...
Afghan policemen inspect the site of a suicide attack in Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand, yesterday. At least five security personnel were killed...
KARACHI: Pakistani officials said yesterday that 21 people in the city of Karachi had died after drinking homemade liquor during the Eid holidays,...
ISLAMABAD: Based on 2012-13 data on cane crushing and sugar production released by the Pakistan Sugar Mills Association and assuming a 30pc average...
ISLAMABAD: Responding to PTI chief Imran Khan’s criticism on government, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervaiz Rasheed yesterday said that Imran Khan...
PESHAWAR: A roadside bomb exploded in northwest Pakistan yesterday killing two off-duty polio vaccinators and their relative, officials said. The blast occurred in...
Iraqi Kurdish supporters of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) hold banners with portraits of leader Abdullah Ocalan during a demonstration outside the UN...
Soldiers on a tank enforce a curfew as part of the Turkish government’s response to ongoing protests by Kurds demanding Turkey intervene to...
Former Tunisian transport minister Abderrahim Zouari works in his office in Tunis yesterday. TUNIS: At Tunis airport arrivals terminal last month, hundreds of...
A taxi driver and a boy look at a Houthi rebel manning a checkpoint in Sana’a yesterday. SANA’A: Yemeni Shia rebels dug in...
CAIRO: Egypt will train Libyan forces to fight terrorism and help secure a shared border, the prime ministers of the two states announced...
WASHINGTON: The FBI on Tuesday appealed for help tracking people planning to join the Islamic State group in combat, including an English-speaking militant...
SAMARRA: An Iraqi military helicopter was shot down by suspected jihadist fighters yesterday, five days after a similar incident in the same location...
