SEOUL: South Korea’s intelligence chief vowed a “bone-crushing” overhaul of his embattled agency as he apologised yesterday for a scandal that saw senior...
SEOUL: South Korea’s intelligence chief vowed a “bone-crushing” overhaul of his embattled agency as he apologised yesterday for a scandal that saw senior...
KATHMANDU: Nepal would weaken the foundations of “genuine and lasting” peace after a decade-long civil war if it gave amnesties for serious crimes...
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged further integration of air and space defence capabilities, in what experts described as a response to...
MANILA: A leader of the Philippines’ largest Muslim rebel group urged the military to take precautions yesterday after a clash in which 20...
SEOUL: South Korea yesterday rejected Pyongyang’s proposal for a joint investigation into three crashed drones that Seoul believes originated in North Korea. “The...
The United Arab Emirates’ Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (right) meets Iranian Foreign Minister...
Syrian refugees wait with their luggage outside a hotel in Beirut to be transported by buses to Beirut international airport for resettlement in...
A Yemeni soldier checks the identity of a man at a checkpoint in the capital Sana’a after suspected Al Qaeda gunmen shot dead...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has replaced intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the kingdom’s pointman on the Syrian conflict, “at his own request,” the...
JEDDAH: Suspected Yemeni smugglers shot dead a Saudi soldier near the kingdom’s border with Yemen in the second such attack in less than...
BAGHDAD: A senior army officer died when his helicopter crashed due to a malfunction, the defence ministry said, as violence in Iraq killed...
BAGHDAD: Iraq has closed Abu Ghraib prison, made infamous by Saddam Hussein’s regime and US forces, due to security concerns following a mass...
WASHINGTON: Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are hammering out a way to extend their faltering peace talks beyond an April 29 deadline, a US...
AMMAN: A Jordanian court yesterday sentenced three Syrians to five years in prison each for trying to smuggle 36 remote control detonators into...
CAIRO: A court yesterday banned members of the Muslim Brotherhood, a movement listed as a “terrorist group”, from running in Egypt’s upcoming elections,...
WASHINGTON: Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are hammering out a way to extend their faltering peace talks beyond an April 29 deadline, a US...
KHARTOUM: Sudan’s President Omar Hassan Al Bashir has issued a decree banning political parties from holding meetings without permission from the authorities, the...
ANKARA: Social media firms operating in Turkey should open offices there and pay taxes, authorities said yesterday, amid a row with Twitter which...
