People and police, including one using an axe, try to access shops through a damaged area after a fire at a wholesale vegetables...
People and police, including one using an axe, try to access shops through a damaged area after a fire at a wholesale vegetables...
Newly-recruited Iraqi volunteers in army uniforms attend a training session in the southern city of Basra, yesterday. Baghdad: Iraqi forces were massing north...
Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abdulaziz bin Abdullah (right) with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, yesterday....
damascus/NEW YORK: A massive truck bomb claimed by rebels killed at least 35 people yesterday in a government-controlled village in the central Syrian...
TUNIS: A sharp rise in new HIV infections in the Middle East and North Africa is a worrying trend, despite some positive developments,...
BEIRUT: A suicide bombing at a checkpoint on the Beirut-Damascus highway killed one person yesterday just before a convoy passed carrying a top...
CAIRO: The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz visited Cairo yesterday, on his first trip to Egypt...
VIENNA: Iran told six big powers yesterday it would not accept their “excessive demands” after the latest talks on lifting sanctions against Tehran...
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speaks with local residents in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyanogirsk, yesterday. SLOVYANOGIRSK, Ukraine: Ukraine’s new Western-backed president yesetrday...
A man walks past a hedge cut into the shape of a family of elephants by architect Tim Bushe to raise money for...
LONDON: Britain is trying to delay selection of a new European Commission President, British officials said yesterday, seeking further discussion of an alternative...
At least ten die, three missing in Bulgaria flooding SOFIA: At least ten people, including two children, died and three more were missing...
ROME: Pope Francis warned yesterday against legalising drugs, calling addiction an “evil” which he said had to be resisted without compromise. Setting himself...
LONDON: A British woman and her husband were found guilty yesterday of murdering her parents and burying them in their own back garden,...
GENEVA: Switzerland yesterday set out plans for new immigration quotas, four months after voters narrowly approved curbs and set the country on a...
The South Korean Navy’s Gumdoksuri class patrol vessel Park Dongjin (PKG-728) launches one of its anti-ship cruise missiles as it attends a live...
Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto greets supporters during a campaign at Tanahabang Market in Jakarta yesterday. The election will be held on July...
HONG KONG: Almost 300,000 people voted for full democracy in Hong Kong within the first few hours of an unofficial online referendum yesterday...
