BEN GUERDANE, Tunisia: Tunisian rescuers yesterday recovered the bodies of at least 14 people from the sea near Libya’s maritime border, in an...
BEN GUERDANE, Tunisia: Tunisian rescuers yesterday recovered the bodies of at least 14 people from the sea near Libya’s maritime border, in an...
WASHINGTON: The United States is not aware of any specific threat to the US homeland from Islamic State (IS) militants, the Department of...
UNITED NATIONS: UN officials were locked in negotiations yesterday to win the release of 44 peacekeepers held by Syrian rebels who also besieged...
Armed police officers in Downing Street, central London, yesterday. Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday he planned to introduce new legislation to...
DAKAR/CONAKRY: The West African state of Senegal became the fifth country to be touched by the world’s worst Ebola outbreak yesterday, while riots...
LAKE SELIGER: Ukraine called yesterday for full membership in Nato, its strongest plea yet for Western military help after accusing Russia of sending...
THE HAGUE: The Dutch government said yesterday it wants to strip jihadists who go to fight in Syria or Iraq of their passports,...
CHERBOURG, France: British and French authorities were racing against time yesterday to find a desperately ill five-year-old boy with a brain tumour who...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe TOKYO: Japan’s defence planners are seeking their biggest budget ever for the coming fiscal year to pay for stealth...
A Chinese People’s Liberation Army soldier stands guard at the entrance to the CPLA’s Hong Kong Garrison headquarters yesterday. HONG KONG: Hong Kong...
Mount Tavurvur erupts in eastern Papua New Guinea, spewing rocks and ash into the air, forcing evacuation of local communities and international flights...
Philippine military spokesperson Major General Domingo Tutaan (left) gestures as he speaks alongside Colonel Roberto Ancan, Commanding Officer of the Peacekeeping Operation Centre...
President Benigno S Aquino III offers a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers during the commemoration of National Heroes Day at...
BEIJING: Three Tibetans in China have pleaded guilty to involvement in the death of a prominent religious leader and two other people, a...
HONG KONG: Macau chief executive Fernando Chui is widely expected to be “re-elected” tomorrow after the pro-China government stifled an unofficial referendum on...
KUALA LUMPUR: Armed pirates commandeered a Thai tanker off Malaysia’s east coast and pumped out its cargo of oil, a maritime watchdog said...
MANILA: A pro-gun advocacy group yesterday called as illegal and unconstitutional the extension of the validity of firearms licences expiring in 2014 to...
MANILA: The future Bangsamoro region in southern Philippines will promote collective security, not cradle threats of religious extremism as espoused by the Islamic...
