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Imran Khan, Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf party, gestures while addressing a protest rally in Peshawar yesterday. Thousands of activists from right-wing political parties...

KABUL: Members of an Afghan grand assembly debating a crucial security pact with the United States voiced concern yesterday at President Hamid Karzai’s...

ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has urged the government to conduct a population census across the country “as early as possible”,...

KARACHI: The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility yesterday for twin bomb attacks targeting Shia in Karachi overnight that killed at least six people and...

 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has appointed his daughter Maryam Nawaz chairperson of the Prime Minister’s Youth Programme (PMYP) on purely honorary...

KABUL: Militants kidnapped 11 Pakistani teachers involved in a polio vaccination campaign for school children yesterday, officials said, the latest in a string...

Volunteers from the South Korea Disaster Relief Team arrive at a damaged airport to help Filipino typhoon victims in the super typhoon devastated...

Indonesian police scuffle with protesters outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta yesterday during a protest against reported spying by Canberra that also targeted...

SHANGHAI: China yesterday bolstered its claim to islands that Japan says it owns, warning that it would take “defensive emergency measures” against aircraft...

YANGON: A European Union humanitarian envoy yesterday voiced concern at the “dramatic deprivation” in Myanmar’s camps for tens of thousands of people, mainly...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s military promised on Friday to investigate why AFP journalists were prevented from working in the country’s former war zone this...

TOKYO: Tokyo governor Naoki Inose has admitted that he had received $500,000 from a political family at the centre of a dirty electioneering...

BANGKOK: Thai police found a seven-year-old boy from Myanmar crying alone at a bus stop with almost 10,000 methamphetamine pills in his backpack...

HONG KONG: An Asian buyer purchased a rare Leica camera, one of only four of its kind in the world, for $620,000 at...

People light candles near the collapsed supermarket in the Latvian capital Riga yesterday.  RIGA: Latvia’s president demanded yesterday that a supermarket cave-in which...

A man rides his scooter past a graffiti mocking Honduras President Porfirio Lobo as Pinocchio in Tegucigalpa yesterday. Honduras is holding a presidential...

WARSAW: Almost 200 nations kept a plan to reach a new UN climate pact in 2015 alive yesterday when rich and poor countries...

LONDON: Three women enslaved in London for 30 years lived in some kind of “collective” where they were controlled by their captors —...