BANNU: The World Food Programme (WFP) yesterday began distributing aid for hundreds of thousands who have fled a military operation in Pakistan, as...
BANNU: The World Food Programme (WFP) yesterday began distributing aid for hundreds of thousands who have fled a military operation in Pakistan, as...
ISLAMABAD: Though Pakistan is facing serious internal threats, the federal government has reduced operational budget of all law enforcement agencies, including the Islamabad...
Filipino policemen on patrol crafts conduct clearing of debris on a polluted river in Paranaque City yesterday. The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority plans...
Senator Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada waves before boarding a police vehicle after he turned himself in at the police headquarters in Quezon City yesterday....
MANILA: Police shot dead a gunman accused of taking part in the Philippines’ worst political massacre on the orders of a powerful clan...
ZAMBOANGA: Security forces have captured four members of the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group in the southern Philippines, including one accused of the...
MANILA: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank yesterday signed an agreement to strengthen their coordination in providing support for a...
COTABATO CITY: For rejecting recommendations from influential people and offers of up to P200,000 each by non-qualified applicants to permanent teaching positions, the...
Soldiers run during a search and arrest operation near the area of a standoff between troops and a conscript SEOUL: A South Korean...
Police escort members of the militant group Harkat-ul Jihad Islami (HUJI) to a prison van after a verdict at the Dhaka Judge Court...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malay-sian police were holding an Australian activist in custody after she was arrested together with 15 others protesting against a rare...
BEIJING: A state-run Chinese newspaper yesterday slammed Hong Kong’s unofficial referendum on democratic reform — which has drawn more than 700,000 votes —...
TAIPEI: A row between Tokyo and Taipei over the loan of a host of treasured artefacts to Japan has been solved, Taiwanese officials...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama is encouraging more employers to adopt family-friendly policies by hosting a day-long summit, even though the US government...
KANO, Nigeria: A bomb blast at a public health college in Nigeria’s second city of Kano killed at least eight people yesterday, in...
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski gives a statement on the bugging scandal yesterday. WARSAW: Poland’s prime minister yesterday said the secret recording of officials...
DONETSK, Ukraine: Separatist leaders in two main areas of Ukraine’s east have agreed to observe a ceasefire with Ukrainian forces until June 27,...
A horse rears in the crowd during the annual San Juan’s festival in Ciutadella, on the Balearic Island of Menorca in Spain, marking...
