ABU DHABI: Two new cases of the potentially deadly MERS respiratory virus, including a heavily pregnant woman, have been reported in the United...
ABU DHABI: Two new cases of the potentially deadly MERS respiratory virus, including a heavily pregnant woman, have been reported in the United...
KHARTOUM: Two Sudanese health ministry workers helping to vaccinate children in the Darfur region have been killed, the United Nations said on Saturday,...
BAGHDAD: The bodies of 18 people kidnapped hours earlier by a group of men wearing military uniforms were found just north of Baghdad...
ANKARA: Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan signed a package of landmark contracts earlier this week that will see the semi-autonomous region's oil and gas...
BEIJING: A Chinese government-backed environmental group said Friday it has launched legal action against state-owned oil giant PetroChina for almost $10 million over...
SEOUL: Within its tireless efforts to help the Philippines face the horrible damages and deaths claimed by the typhoon earthquake, South Korea will...
MIRANSHAH: A US drone strike targeting a militant compound killed at least two suspected insurgents in a restive Pakistani tribal region near the...
TOKYO: Tokyo stocks closed down 0.41 Friday as profit-takers moved in after the Nikkei surged to a nearly six-year high the previous day....
OTTAWA: Canada has sold a large embassy building in London's luxury Mayfair district to Indian developer Lodha Dwellers Pvt Ltd for $530 million,...
A health worker pours fuel over expired medicine, collected from hospitals in Nangarhar province, before setting them alight on the outskirts of Jalalabad...
A labourer pulls a cart loaded with supplies to a market in Karachi yesterday.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will visit Kabul tomorrow to meet President Hamid Karzai as part of efforts to revive Afghanistan’s faltering...
LONDON: Two men were cleared yesterday of endangering a Pakistan International Airways plane after a British court heard that they were not terrorists....
KARACHI: Pakistan’s new defence minister yesterday vowed to solve within weeks the controversial issue of “missing persons” in the southwestern province of Baluchistan...
Islamabad: Gunmen shot dead three people in Takht Bhai in Peshawar late on Wednesday night. According to reports, unknown assailants barged into a...
PESHAWAR: Pakistan’s northwestern district of Mardan is becoming a major threat in terms of polio eradication efforts as parents of 8,495 children refused...
Kabul: Afghanistan’s government has backed away from a proposal to reintroduce public stoning as a punishment for adultery after the leak of a...
A helicopter of the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force lifts off from the aircraft carrier USS George Washington during Annual Exercise 2013 in waters...
