WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama met top Afghanistan war advisors last Tuesday with US plans for a post-2014 military force in limbo over President...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama met top Afghanistan war advisors last Tuesday with US plans for a post-2014 military force in limbo over President...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif extended an invitation to the Indian leadership yesterday to resolve the Kashmir issue through dialogue on Kashmir...
ISLAMABAD: After furnishing surety bonds of Rs2.5m to avoid arrest in a treason case, former president General Pervez Musharraf has filed an application...
Thailand’s embattled government yesterday defended a much-criticised rice subsidy scheme after a Chinese firm cancelled a one-million-tonne order following a graft probe involving...
Malaysia’s national flag is hoisted next to an 18-metre high and 28-metre-wide snow statue of the Sultan Abdul Samad building at Malaysia square,...
SEOUL: North and South Korea agreed yesterday to allow some families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War to hold brief reunions, despite a...
MANILA: Philippine President Benigno Aquino has warned China’s efforts to claim disputed territories are like Nazi Germany’s before World War II, drawing a...
SRAGEN: An Indonesian maid allegedly tortured by her Hong Kong employer left hospital yesterday after a month, tearfully expressing the hope that her...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s army led an orgy of indiscriminate killing at the climax of the island’s civil war, and has since tried to...
TOKYO: A deaf composer dubbed “Japan’s Beethoven” confessed yesterday to hiring someone to write his best-known works, leaving duped broadcaster NHK red-faced, and...
Snow is seen on cars in the Williamsburg neighbourhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York yesterday. NEW YORK: The latest in a...
The Newhaven Lighthouse is battered by waves during stormy weather in Newhaven on the southern coast of England yesterday. More than 8,000 homes...
LONDON: Millions of Lond-oners were caught up in commuting chaos yesterday, as Underground workers began the first in a series of strikes that...
GENEVA: Last year tied for the sixth-hottest on record, confirming that Earth’s climate system is in the grip of warming that will affect...
BERLIN: US intelligence spied on former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder from 2002, NDR television reported, adding fuel to the flames of a row...
GENEVA: The United Nations condemned the Vatican yesterday for failing to stamp out child abuse and allowing systematic cover-ups, calling on the Church...
A man rides a motorbike past a damaged building in Maaret Al Naaman town in Syria’s Idlib province, yesterday. UNITED NATIONS: Children enduring...
Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino reviews a guard of honour during her visit to Italian troops of the United Nations Interim Force in...
