DUBAI: A Dubai court has upheld a 15-year jail term for an Emirati woman who tortured her Ethiopian maid to death by forcing...
DUBAI: A Dubai court has upheld a 15-year jail term for an Emirati woman who tortured her Ethiopian maid to death by forcing...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces said they killed 19 militants while attacks elsewhere in the country left three people dead yesterday, as violence spikes...
MOGADISHU: Two foreign consultants working for the United Nations anti-drugs agency in Somalia were shot dead yesterday at an airport in north central...
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s Islamic Affairs Minister, accused by a senior US official of promoting jihad in Syria, was reported yesterday as saying he...
EL FASHER: Beware of the men with the hard faces. Look at them the wrong way and you might end up dead, residents...
BEIRUT: Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said in an interview published yesterday that his Lebanese Shia group was behind a blast that targeted Israeli...
Afghan poll workers unload ballot boxes at Independent Election Commission in Kandahar yesterday. KABUL: Preliminary tallies from Afghanistan’s presidential election showed former foreign...
Pakistani media representatives and civil society activists hold posters bearing the image of German photographer Anja Niedringhaus, who was killed in an attack...
KABUL: The election to choose a successor to Afghan President Hamid Karzai appeared “less fraudulent” than the scandal-tainted 2009 vote, poll officials said...
MIRANSHAH: Clashes between two Pakistani Taliban factions have left at least 20 dead, security officials and militant sources said yesterday, in a sign...
QUETTA: A Pakistani court hearing the murder case of a slain Baluch nationalist leader yesterday ordered embattled former military ruler Pervez Musharraf to...
QUETTA: Pakistani paramilitary troops said they launched a military operation yesterday in the insurgency-racked southwestern province of Baluchistan and killed some 40 rebels....
ISLAMABAD: The government is considering setting up a panel to investigate the cases of non-combatant Taliban prisoners amid reports that the military is...
Pro-Russian activists who seized the main administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk deploy a flag of the so-called Donetsk Republic...
Men help carry a crying woman at the Amahoro Stadium in Kigali yesterday during a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of Rwanda’s genocide. ...
PRETORIA: His voice trembling with emotion, Oscar Pistorius (pictured) took the witness stand in his own defence yesterday, saying the Valentine’s Day shooting...
The Irish flag hangs from a woman’s mobility scooter as she drives near to Windsor Castle in Windsor, west of London, yesterday on...
Britain’s Prince William (right) and his wife Catherine, carrying baby Prince George, arrive at the international airport in Wellington yesterday.
