LONDON: Britain’s National Crime Agency yesterday reported a sharp 22 percent rise in suspected human trafficking cases in 2013 from the previous year,...
LONDON: Britain’s National Crime Agency yesterday reported a sharp 22 percent rise in suspected human trafficking cases in 2013 from the previous year,...
LOS ANGELES: A US man who allegedly beheaded a female co-worker in Oklahoma has been charged with first degree murder, a prosecutor said...
DAKAR/GENEVA: Two days after his mother died of Ebola at a clinic in the Liberian capital Monrovia last month, four-year-old John was put...
BARCELONA: Thousands of Catalans rallied in a rainstorm yesterday as their leaders battled to defend their bid for a referendum on independence from...
GENEVA: Nearly half of the world’s elderly receive no pension, while many of those who do receive too little and are widely seeing...
BRUSSELS: The European Union yesterday decided to keep in place biting economic sanctions on Russia over its alleged backing of pro-Kremlin insurgents who...
VIENNA: Austria has reported its first case of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus in a woman from Saudi Arabia who had...
Staff prepare a lion to be transferred from the Gaza Strip’s Bisan City tourist village zoo to Jordan through the Erez crossing with...
The Iranian captain of an Airbus A380-800 airctaft of Emirates Airline holds an Iranian national flag after landing at Tehran’s IKA airport yesterday....
A Syrian refugee boy cries while clutching her mother as they arrive at the Syrian-Turkish border near Sanliurfa, Turkey, yesterday. MURSITPINAR: US warplanes...
CAIRO: An Egyptian court sentenced 68 people to up to 15 years in prison yesterday over protest clashes, in the latest mass sentencing...
JERUSALEM: Israeli police guarded Jewish settlers as they moved into seven homes in a Palestinian neighbourhood of occupied East Jerusalem yesterday while stunned...
RIYADH: Gunmen have opened fire on a Saudi checkpoint in a Shia village in the Eastern Province, wounding a policeman, police said. The...
TUNIS: Tunisian electoral authorities yesterday approved 27 candidates for November’s presidential election, including the current president and at least five former ministers from...
UNITED NATIONS: Food aid to millions of Syrians will be cut within the next two months unless fresh funding is received for the...
SHEKHAN, Iraq: For Salah Paulis, it came down to a choice between his faith and his crop. A wheat farmer from outside Mosul,...
BEIRUT: Iran is to offer equipment to the Lebanese army to bolster its battle against jihadist extremists, a senior Iranian official said on...
PARIS: Ancient Iraqi artefacts are appearing on the black market as Islamic State militants use intermediaries to sell priceless treasures to finance their...
