MOGADISHU: US forces have carried out air strikes against the leader of Somalia’s Al Qaeda-linked Shabab rebels, with casualties reported but uncertainty hanging...
MOGADISHU: US forces have carried out air strikes against the leader of Somalia’s Al Qaeda-linked Shabab rebels, with casualties reported but uncertainty hanging...
BENGHAZI: A British envoy visited Libya’s parliament at its new seat in the eastern town of Tobruk yesterday in a show of support...
CAIRO: The Khartoum government has closed all Iranian cultural centres in Sudan and expelled the cultural attaché and other diplomats, fearing they had...
TEHRAN: Iran unveiled a new surface-to-air missile yesterday and two radar systems it said would improve its defences against “enemies”. The Talash-3 (Effort-3)...
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Pro-democracy activists clash with police during a protest outside a hotel in Hong Kong. HONG KONG: Organisers of a pro-democracy group who vowed...
A woman circles around the dome of Swayambhunath Stupa, a collection of shrines and temples on a hilltop, and one of the holiest...
Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, known for his giant yellow rubber duck, displays a 25-metre rabbit sculpture he created for the Taoyuan Land Arts...
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou, who initiated detente with China, yesterday threw his support behind Hong Kong’s push for democracy -- calling it...
SEOUL: South Korea’s military said yesterday it will upgrade charges against four soldiers to homicide for the abuse of a fellow conscript that...
BANGKOK: The defamation trial of a British activist began yesterday in Bangkok after he co-authored a report alleging widespread labour abuses in Thailand’s...
MANILA: Justice Secretary Leila de Lima revealed that the alleged group behind the bombing attempt at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian prosecutors charged a high-profile law professor with sedition yesterday for an opinion he voiced on a political crisis that occurred...
YANGON: A Myanmar beauty queen dethroned for alleged misconduct said yesterday she would only return her crown if South Korean pageant organisers apologised. ...
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s interior minister yesterday slammed violent anti-government protests as a ‘revolt against the state’ as lawmakers backed beleaguered...
People search for survivors in the debris after two residential buildings collapsed in Choori Muhalla, Hyderabad, Pakistan yesterday. At least seven people, including...
Children look on in a grocery store as two elderly men sit in the ol d section of Kabul yesterday. Afghanistan’s economy has...
KABUL: Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah was locked in last-chance talks with the United Nations yesterday as a deal to resolve the country’s...