MANILA: The Philippines and its largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Milf), yesterday signed a final peace pact, ending about...
MANILA: The Philippines and its largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Milf), yesterday signed a final peace pact, ending about...
SEOUL: South Korea detected a suspected North Korean hacking attempt yesterday to steal military data by using a journalist’s notebook computer, defence ministry...
KATHMANDU: Nepal is considering banning foreign climbers from scaling Mount Everest alone in a bid to reduce accidents on the world’s highest peak,...
Russian soldiers stand near a tank outside a former Ukrainian military base in Perevalnoye, near the Crimean capital Simferopol, yesterday. KIEV: Ukrainian former...
US President Barack Obama talks to Pope Francis during their meeting at the Vatican yesterday. VATICAN CITY: US President Barack Obama met Pope...
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration yesterday announced details of its plan to end the government’s vast bulk collection of data about phone calls made...
WASHINGTON: Nearly 100,000 Russian forces have massed on Ukraine’s border, a top Ukrainian defence official told an American audience yesterday, giving a number...
LONDON: Britain and France will develop new anti-ship missiles in a £500m project that stems from a major defence cooperation agreement, Britain’s Ministry...
CONAKRY: A deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus suspected of killing at least 63 people has spread from rural Guinea to the capital...
Students who support the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted president Mohamed Mursi shout slogans near a bonfire during clashes with riot police outside Ain...
Crew members of the tanker Morning Glory, which was seized last week by US forces after loading oil at a Libyan port held...
Men attempt to move an unexploded barrel bomb dropped by forces loyal to President Bashar Al Assad at a cemetery in the Al...
Supporters of a movement called Barakat (meaning “That’s enough” in Arabic), campaigning for new leadership in Algeria, demonstrate against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika running...
WASHINGTON: Companies controlled by ousted Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his family garnered 21 percent of all his country’s private...
TEHRAN: Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has urged the United Nations to help secure the release of Iranian border soldiers abducted by Sunni...
Amman: US Secretary of State John Kerry will make long-delayed visits to Algeria and Morocco next week on his first trip to both...
BAGHDAD: Three sets of bombings in Baghdad killed at least a dozen people last evening, the latest in a surge in bloodshed in...
