BERUWALA: The main Muslim party in Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition yesterday demanded a UN probe into one of the country’s worst-ever religious riots,...
BERUWALA: The main Muslim party in Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition yesterday demanded a UN probe into one of the country’s worst-ever religious riots,...
PUERTO PRINCESA: A Philippine court yesterday sentenced 12 Vietnamese men to six months in jail and fined them $100,000 for illegal fishing, the...
TOKYO: Japan said yesterday that it would soon hold fresh official talks with North Korea after Pyongyang’s surprise promise to investigate the Cold...
HANOI/BEIJING: China’s top diplomat scolded Vietnamese officials during talks in Hanoi yesterday for “hyping up” a row over a Chinese oil rig drilling...
MANILA: Philippine President Benigno Aquino will visit Japan next week, with rows over China’s territorial ambitions likely on the agenda, his office said...
Pakistani civilians fleeing from a military operation in North Waziristan arrive in Bannu district yesterday. BANNU: Around 30,000 people fled a major military...
Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah speaking to the media in Kabul yesterday. KABUL: Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah yesterday demanded election organisers stop...
Supporters of preacher Tahirul-Qadri holding a candle-light protest for the victims of clashes with police, in Islamabad yesterday. At least seven people were...
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has dismissed suggestions that his country could descend into the same chaos as Iraq when US-led troops pull...
ISLAMABAD: Twitter has restored access inside Pakistan to dozens of tweets and accounts, after blocking them last month following official complaints about "blasphemous"...
Islamabad: The High Commissioner to Pakistan Philip Barton assured Britain’s full cooperation in countering extremism and terrorism from Pakistan during a meeting with...
Displaced Iraqi families from the city of Tikrit make their way to Kirkuk. Forty-six Indian nurses have been stranded in Tikrit. NEW DELHI:...
A boy carries models of the 2014 FIFA World Cup trophy made by artisans to a warehouse in Kolkata yesterday. Football fans in...
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry O Rogozin (left) shakes hands with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj before their meeting in New Delhi yesterday. ...
Bhubaneswar: India yesterday successfully test-fired indigenously developed surface-to-air missile Akash from a defence base in Odisha, an official said. The medium-range missile is...
Congress activists shout slogans as they hold an effigy representing Nihalchand Meghwal, Federal Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers, during a protest...
New Delhi: The suspense over the fate of several governors continued yesterday as they betrayed no sign of stepping down voluntarily, while the...
New Delhi: Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung yesterday held a meeting of officials to review the prices of onions and potatoes in the...