DAMASCUS: Rebels said yesterday they struck a deal to withdraw from the army-besieged heart of Homs city, as government forces advanced on a...
DAMASCUS: Rebels said yesterday they struck a deal to withdraw from the army-besieged heart of Homs city, as government forces advanced on a...
BAGHDAD: Shelling in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, held by anti-government fighters for more than four months, has killed 11 people in less...
JUBA: South Sudan government forces said yesterday they had overrun the key rebel base of Nasir and the northern oil hub of Bentiu...
NOUAKCHOTT: Mauritania’s main opposition parties announced yesterday they would boycott a scheduled June 21 presidential election, in a move that threatens to undermine...
JERUSALEM: Israeli police looking for evidence linked to a recent attack on a mosque were mobbed overnight by around 100 demonstrators at a...
Pro-Russia protesters climb with a Donbass flag at the military prosecutor’s office building in Donetsk yesterday. ODESSA: Thousands of pro-Russian protesters assaulted Odessa’s...
ANTRIM: Northern Ireland police yesterday freed Gerry Adams after four days of questioning over a notorious IRA murder, but the republican leader could...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama cracked jokes about the government’s disastrous health care policy rollout and mocked political opponents at the White House...
NAIROBI: At least two people were killed and dozens more wounded when bombs exploded in two buses on a busy highway in the...
LAGOS: Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday vowed that his government will ensure the release of the 223 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram Islamists....
Rescuers search for survivors in the coaches of a passenger train after it derailed near Nidi village in the western state of Maharashtra...
Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is garlanded by Asansol BJP candidate and Bollywood singer...
GUWAHATI: The Indian government appealed for calm yesterday after at least 35 Muslims died in the northeastern state of Assam in attacks targeting...
New Delhi: In a major snub for the Congress, two of its allies — the NCP and the National Conference — yesterday opposed...
Krishnanagar/Ranaghat: Daring BJP leader Narendra Modi to deport any person from West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday said her party would “rock”...
Leh: Polling parties and election materials were dispatched yesterday to six far-flung polling stations of Leh district in Jammu and Kashmir for voting...
LOS ANGELES: Fearless counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer returns to TV today after a four-year absence as Fox revives Emmy-winning thriller “24” in a...
Washington: Researchers in the US are closing in on a therapy that could reverse harmful ageing processes in the brain, muscles, heart and...
