KABUL: Taliban insurgents intent on disrupting a run-off in the Afghan presidential election have begun recruiting fighters from radical Islamic schools, and ramped...
KABUL: Taliban insurgents intent on disrupting a run-off in the Afghan presidential election have begun recruiting fighters from radical Islamic schools, and ramped...
MAZAR-I-SHARIF: The White House yesterday defended the release of five Guantanamo detainees in exchange for a US soldier held by the Taliban, as...
LAHORE: Pakistani police investigating the murder of a woman bludgeoned to death outside a court have arrested five more men in connection with...
KABUL: Taliban insurgents intent on disrupting a run-off in the Afghan presidential election have begun recruiting fighters from radical Islamic schools, and ramped...
KARACHI: Seven bullet-ridden bodies of suspected militants were found dumped among bushes in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi yesterday, officials said. The deceased...
Filipino teachers scuffle against riot policemen during a ‘lightning rally’ outside the gates of Malacanang Palace in Manila yesterday. Teachers demanded a salary...
Residents wade through floodwaters in Welipanna yesterday. Mudslides caused by heavy monsoon rains in the west and south of Sri Lanka have killed...
SYDNEY: A Sri Lankan asylum-seeker has died after setting himself on fire while awaiting a visa decision in Australia, Immigration Minister Scott Morrison...
BANGKOK: The military junta running Thailand has drawn up a list of emergency measures such as price caps on fuel and loan guarantees...
KUALA LUMPUR: New tests conducted by Malaysian authorities found that two varieties of chocolate made by British confectioner Cadbury do not contain pig...
MANILA: Philippine security forces have arrested a Islamist rebel responsible for the death of two US servicemen in a September 2009 roadside bombing...
HONG KONG: China has detained two Hong Kong journalists for operating an “illegal publication”, the authorities said, as the mainland tightens its grip...
US Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell (at podium) of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announces criminal charges and two global cyber fraud disruptions,...
A January 6, 2014 file picture shows Spain’s King Juan Carlos (left) and Crown Prince Felipe salute during the Pascua Military ceremony at...
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday that she hopes Britain will stay in the EU, amid wrangling over a top EU job...
LUGANSK: Hundreds of pro-Russian gunmen struck a Ukrainian border guard camp with mortar and grenade launchers yesterday in one of the biggest offensives...
EDINBURGH: British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative party promised yesterday to radically increase the Scottish government’s spending powers if voters reject independence at...
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and President Mahmoud Abbas during the swearing in ceremony of the new unity government in Ramallah, West Bank,...
