BEIRUT: More than 400 people have been killed in three weeks of fighting between Islamic State group jihadists and Kurdish forces for the...
BEIRUT: More than 400 people have been killed in three weeks of fighting between Islamic State group jihadists and Kurdish forces for the...
ABU DHABI: Hewlett-Packard Co has sold its 40 percent stake in United Arab Emirates-based Injazat Data Systems for an undisclosed amount to its...
MANILA: The Philippines has pushed back its 2013 target to attain self-sufficiency in rice production by another two years, an official said Tuesday,...
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Missiles from a U.S. drone on Tuesday slammed into a suspected militant training camp in northwest Pakistan, killing six, intelligence...
NEW DELHI: Leading Indian vehicle manufacturer Mahindra announced Tuesday a binding offer to buy a majority stake in France's Peugeot Motorcycles, the world's...
TAIPEI: Taiwan's premier warned Tuesday of increasing cyber attacks from China, the island's highest-ranking official to denounce attempts to "steal government secrets" despite...
SAMARRA, Iraq: A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden armoured vehicle into houses used by Shiite militiamen north of the Iraqi city of Samarra,...
YANGON: Myanmar on Tuesday pledged to release thousands of prisoners a month before a Southeast Asian summit, which U.S. President Barack Obama and...
SEOUL: Global air cargo traffic will double in the next 20 years, enjoying annual growth of 4.7 percent as international trade picks up...
HANOI: A Vietnam-flagged tanker has gone missing en route from Singapore to the Vietnamese port of Quang Tri and is feared hijacked, a...
TOKYO: Tokyo stocks closed 0.67 percent lower Tuesday as the dollar's rise against the yen fizzled, but Fujifilm jumped to a six-year high...
NAIROBI: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta flew out of Kenya Tuesday to attend a hearing at the International Criminal Court, where he will become...
ABU DHABI: Business activity growth in the United Arab Emirates' non-oil private sector fell to a four-month low in September as gains in...
SEOUL: Samsung Electronics on Tuesday flagged a near 60 percent on-year plunge in its third quarter operating profit, as its key smartphone sector...
WASHINGTON: Arab and other allied countries have carried out about 10 percent of the nearly 2,000 air raids against the Islamic State group...
BRUSSELS: European Union anti-trust regulators are to challenge Luxembourg over its tax deals with Internet shopping giant Amazon that Brussels believes amount to...
BOGOTA: Lightning struck dead 11 Colombians and injured 15 others during a meeting of indigenous Wiwa spiritual leaders in a remote mountainous area...
FRANKFURT: Lufthansa pilots late Monday announced their fifth strike since the end of August, this time grounding freight flights in Germany over a...