CAIRO: Egypt’s outgoing interim president issued a decree making dishonouring the Egyptian flag or not standing for the national anthem a criminal offence,...
CAIRO: Egypt’s outgoing interim president issued a decree making dishonouring the Egyptian flag or not standing for the national anthem a criminal offence,...
ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates foresees greater stability in Egypt after former army chief Abdel Fattah Al Sisi won a presidential election...
Tehran: Iran’s supreme leader has called for a population increase in an edict likely to restrict access to contraception that critics fear could...
NAIROBI: The leader of South Sudan’s rebels, former vice president Riek Machar, said he was “committed to peace” and ready to resume peace...
New Delhi: Doing away with one of the relics of coalition politics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday abolished all 30 ministerial groups to...
Singapore: US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel yesterday said he was planning to visit India later this year to drive “transformational cooperation” with the...
Mumbai: Undaunted by the political drubbing in the recent Lok Sabha elections, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray has projected himself as a...
Lucknow: In a major bureaucratic shake-up, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav yesterday removed Chief Secretary Jawed Usmani and appointed Alok Ranjan to...
Kolkata: Forced by abject poverty, a woman sold her newborn child for Rs13,000 to a childless couple in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district, an...
New Delhi: Days before her exit as speaker, Meira Kumar has given the Lok Sabha TV CEO his marching orders with immediate effect...
ISLAMABAD: Taliban fighters attacked several Pakistani military posts along the Afghan border yesterday, sparking an hours-long gun battle that included Pakistan launching air...
ISLAMABAD: The National Economic Council (NEC) of Pakistan which met under chairmanship of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif decreased the share of budget allocation...
ISLAMABAD: One-third of adults in Pakistan are overweight or obese, and the gender gap in excess weight is widening, with more women gaining...
FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHANK: Seven years ago, Jose Navarro’s platoon was ambushed and nearly overrun by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. The troops found...
LAHORE: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif yesterday inaugurated two 660-megawatt coal-fired power projects, the first of its kind in Punjab — having a capacity...
BLANTYRE, Malawi: Democratic Progressive Party leader Peter Mutharika was declared the winner of Malawi’s disputed presidential election on Friday after defeating President Joyce...
BERLIN: British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned that his country could leave the European Union if Luxembourg’s former premier Jean-Claude Juncker became...
SUKHUMI, Georgia: The parliament of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia has voted to hold early presidential elections in August, a deputy said yesterday,...
