TAIPEI: A Taiwanese rights activist and outspoken critic of his government’s attempts to seek closer ties with Beijing criticised Chinese authorities after he...
TAIPEI: A Taiwanese rights activist and outspoken critic of his government’s attempts to seek closer ties with Beijing criticised Chinese authorities after he...
MANILA: Security forces went on full alert in the southern Philippines on Sunday, police said after military intelligence reported sightings of Islamist militants...
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia's Mobily has signed a $200 million vendor financing agreement with Canada's export credit agency to buy equipment from Alcatel Lucent,...
BEIRUT: A jihadist group in Syria has publicly executed and crucified eight rebels fighting both President Bashar al-Assad's regime and the jihadists, a...
KHARTOUM: A Darfur rebel leader, who experts said was responsible for some of the deadliest attacks against Sudanese forces, has been killed in...
WASHINGTON: A study detailing how Facebook secretly manipulated the news feed of some 700,000 users to study "emotional contagion" has prompted anger on...
MOGADISHU: Islamist rebels shot dead three members of Somalia's security forces in the capital on Sunday, police and witnesses said on the first...
DOHA: Qatar Exchange index dropped 147.07 points (1.24 percent) to close at 11,669.43 points Sunday afternoon. The trading value today was QR 414,438,556.95...
RIYADH: A Saudi citizen kidnapped in Yemen has been freed by his abductors and returned home on Sunday after "huge efforts" to secure...
DUBAI: Oman Telecommunications(Omantel) has appointed Talal Said Marhoon al-Mamari as chief executive, the company said in a statement on Sunday. Mamari is a...
DOHA: HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al -Thani in telephone calls Sunday exchanged congratulations with President of the Islamic Republic of...
DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) will launch 12 social projects in Qatar at a total cost of QR8,773,500 to serve 111,000 people during...
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia: The Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation launched a joint appeal Sunday for a ceasefire in embattled Syria...
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Barack Obama is to ask Congress for more than $2 billion to deal with the surge in unaccompanied children flooding...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces pressed a counter-attack on Saddam Hussein's hometown Tikrit on Sunday as Russia delivered warplanes to aid Baghdad in a crisis...
PARIS: France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen said Sunday that dual nationality should be revoked following disturbances after Algeria's last World Cup match,...
Serbia’s Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic talks during the opening of Andricgrad village in Visegrad yesterday. Sarajevo marked the centennial of Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz...
People wave Brittany flags during a demonstration for the reunification of the Loire-Atlantique region to the region of Brittany yesterday in Nantes, western...
