ROME: Italy’s foreign minister has urged India’s Supreme Court to allow one of the two Italian marines detained over the 2012 killing of...
ROME: Italy’s foreign minister has urged India’s Supreme Court to allow one of the two Italian marines detained over the 2012 killing of...
New Delhi/Islamabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday offered Indian assistance to Pakistan for flood relief operations in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, but Islamabad said its...
Filipino residents dump buckets of ice water on themselves as they take part in the ALS ice bucket challenge in Quezon City, Metro...
A Malaysian child plays amidst Chinese lanterns displayed at a mall ahead of the Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations, in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The festival,...
SEOUL: North Korea will put US citizen Matthew Miller on trial next Sunday, state media said, shortly after he made a highly unusual...
MANILA: Philippine President Benigno Aquino will submit the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law bill to Congress on Wednesday. Senate sources told The Star that...
YANGON: Myanmar’s election commission yesterday scrapped November by-elections in 35 parliamentary seats, citing the pressure of hosting an upcoming regional summit and extra...
TAIPEI: Taiwanese authorities have detained the main suspect in a food safety scare over recycled cooking oil which officials said yesterday had been...
COLOMBO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he hoped Sri Lanka’s war crimes probe would silence its critics ahead of his arrival on...
From left: Afghans Safiullah, Nazar Mohammad, Qaisullah, Azizullah, Samiullah, Mustafa, and Jamil, the seven men who gang-raped four women on August 23, stand...
A man searches the debris of his house destroyed by floods in Wazirabad yesterday.
KABUL: “Radicals” backing Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah could foment post-election violence if he isn’t given an equitable share of power, his spokesman...
ISLAMABAD: The official website of Pakistan’s Federal Ministry of Interior was hacked yesterday. Defacing the website (www.interior.gov.pk), the hackers posted offensive remarks against...
ISLAMABAD: Shumaila was in kindergarten when she lost both her arms in a train accident. Today, the courageous sixth-grader has received the Pakistan...
SYDNEY: The Royal Australian Navy said yesterday that it had launched a search for a Pakistani sailor believed to have disappeared overboard during...
Kolkata: Accusing West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) of involvement in the Saradha scam, BJP president Amit Shah yesterday asserted that the federal...
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrives to pay homage at the Mahatma Gandhi memorial at Gandhi Smriti in New Delhi yesterday.
New Delhi: Terror group Indian Mujahideen planned to carry out attacks in Delhi and other states during the upcoming festivals, a key IM...
