LONDON: Britain said yesterday that it would rush through emergency legislation to force telecoms companies to retain customers’ data for a year, saying...
LONDON: Britain said yesterday that it would rush through emergency legislation to force telecoms companies to retain customers’ data for a year, saying...
SPRING, Texas: A Texas man was charged with capital murder yesterday after appearing at the house of his estranged wife’s relatives disguised as...
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian lawmaker apologised yesterday for a tweet praising Adolf Hitler following Germany’s World Cup win over Brazil, after Prime Minister...
WASHINGTON: The US Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon yesterday for charging parents for what their children spent on online games without parental authorisation....
TOKYO: In a country known for its high-tech ‘smart loos’, a Japanese exhibition dedicated to what gets flushed down and featuring a giant...
Policemen inspect a destroyed car after a car bomb attack near a police station south of the city of Kirkuk yesterday. At least...
Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters prepare to fire a mortar during what the FSA said was an offensive to take control of Al...
Muslims pray during Taraweeh, a traditional prayer during Ramadan, at the Al Azhar Mosque in Cairo yesterday.
CAIRO: Egypt opened its Rafah border crossing to Gaza yesterday to receive wounded Palestinians as Israel pounded the enclave with air strikes, an...
GENEVA: The top United Nations human rights official called on Saudi Arabia yesterday to release activists she said had been arrested for peacefully...
MANAMA: Bahrain has charged the country’s most senior opposition leader and one of his aides with holding an illegal meeting with a US...
PRAGUE: US Secretary of State John Kerry and foreign ministers from the six powers negotiating with Iran on its nuclear programme will travel...
DUBAI: Yemen’s president unveiled a clampdown on public sector spending yesterday, including a feasibility review of state-owned companies and a ban on all...
ISTANBUL: The main rival of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey’s presidential election launched his campaign yesterday, positioning himself as a unifying...
ANKARA: Turkey’s parliament yesterday approved a legal framework for peace talks with Kurdish militants in an important step towards ending a three-decade insurgency....
WASHINGTON: The United States yesterday imposed financial sanctions on a Lebanese consumer electronics company, saying it purchased supplies used to develop military drones...
TRIPOLI: The United Nations has evacuated dozens of foreign staff from its mission in Libya due to a deteriorating security situation in the...
TUNIS: Hackers briefly disrupted the online voter registration process for Tunisia’s parliamentary and presidential polls later this year, the electoral commission said yesterday....
