BEIJING: China condemned yesterday plans by a Japanese city to ask the UN world heritage organisation to register letters by World War Two...
BEIJING: China condemned yesterday plans by a Japanese city to ask the UN world heritage organisation to register letters by World War Two...
Residents paddle through floodwater in the village of Wraysbury in Berkshire, Southeast England, yesterday. LONDON: Thousands of homes in southeast England were braced...
GENEVA: Switzerland’s knife-edge decision to curb immigration from the EU raises major problems, heavyweight Germany warned yesterday, as Swiss authorities moved to limit...
An activist of the anti-government opposition looks at police though binoculars as he guards a barricade in central Kiev yesterday. BANGUI: The commander...
Jose Salvador Alvarenga (right) of El Salvador with Marshall Islands President Christopher Loeak prior to his departure at the airport in Majuro yesterday....
MADRID: Spanish High Court Judge Ismael Moreno yesterday sought international arrest orders for former Chinese president Jiang Zemin, ex-Prime Minister Li Peng and...
New york: Nine people were arrested and some 3,000 fighting roosters and hens rescued when New York authorities busted a cockfighting ring they...
JAKARTA: Indonesia's Kreasindo Resources has signed an MOU with Iran's Nakhle Barani Pardis to build a refinery in the Southeast Asian country, worth...
NEW YORK: Google overtook US oil giant ExxonMobil on Monday to become the world's number two company when rated by market value, behind...
NEW YORK: A non-profit group filed suit Monday over a record $13 billion settlement between the US Justice Department and JPMorgan Chase concerning...
SINGAPORE: Myanmar's national carrier on Tuesday signed a contract with US firm GE Capital to lease 10 Boeing aircraft worth nearly a billion...
Civilians carry their belongings as they run towards a meeting point to be evacuated from a besieged area of Homs. GENEVA/BEIRUT: A second...
Jikany Nuer White Army fighters hold their weapons in Upper Nile State yesterday. ADDIS ABABA: South Sudanese rebels threatened yesterday to boycott the...
Demonstrators hold a banner reading ‘’Enough, we don’t want child brides’’ to protest against child marriage in front of the Family and Social...
TEHRAN: Iran laid out “red lines” yesterday related to its ballistic missile programme, atomic sites and uranium enrichment ahead of fresh nuclear talks...
DUBAI: The first state budget proposed by Iranian President Hassan Rowhani has sailed through parliament, handing him a political victory as he seeks...
ANKARA: Negotiators are close to striking a long-awaited deal on compensation for Turkish victims of a deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza aid...
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Washington on March 2, and he is to discuss Iran and the peace process with...
