WASHINGTON: Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban, said Wednesday she sees the more than 200...
WASHINGTON: Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban, said Wednesday she sees the more than 200...
LONDON: British Defence secretary Philip Hammond signalled that women will be eligible to serve in combat roles in the British army for the...
DONETSK: Pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine ignored a public call by Russian President Vladimir Putin to postpone a referendum on self-rule, declaring they...
ABUJA: Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan pledged yesterday to find more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist rebels, as the hostage crisis overshadowed his...
WASHINGTON: In a major congressional step towards curtailing widespread surveillance of millions of Americans, a House panel voted late on Wednesday to end...
PRETORIA: The ruling African National Congress (ANC) swept toward victory in South Africa’s fifth post-apartheid election yesterday, handing President Jacob Zuma the clout...
LONDON: Police officers across London will wear video cameras when responding to emergency calls as part of a year-long pilot project launched yesterday....
BANGKOK: Thailand’s ousted premier Yingluck Shinawatra faces a possible five-year ban from politics after anti-graft officials ruled yesterday that she should face impeachment...
SINGAPORE: A Singapore court yesterday sentenced an Indian construction worker to 30 months in jail and three strokes of the cane for his...
HONG KONG: Billionaire brothers Thomas and Raymond Kwok, co-chairmen of Asia’s largest developer, Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd, pleaded not guilty yesterday in...
BEIJING: The skipper of a Chinese fishing boat claimed yesterday that his vessel was shot at by Philippine police as 11 fishermen aboard...
Syrian soldiers stand on a street at the entrance of Hamidiya market in the old city of Homs yesterday. BEIRUT: Syrian rebels blew...
Yemen’s army vehicles drive in an area taken from Al Qaeda militants in Mayfaa, in the southeastern province of Shabwa, on Wednesday. ADEN:...
SAMARRA: Relatives discovered the body of a kidnapped Iraqi policeman yesterday, but it was rigged with explosives and blew up, killing his father...
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations accused both government and rebel forces in South Sudan yesterday of committing crimes against humanity, including murder, rape...
MOGADISHU: More than 100 Somali lawmakers have signed a letter demanding the president resign for failing to improve security and meet other promises,...
DUBAI: Dubai prosecutors have charged six Iranians with kidnapping a British-Iranian businessman who went missing in the emirate last year, the government said...
SAMARRA: Relatives discovered the body of a kidnapped Iraqi policeman yesterday, but it was rigged with explosives and blew up, killing his father...
