KARACHI: Pakistani police yesterday shot dead six suspected militants thought to be planning a major sectarian attack and seized explosives, suicide vests and...
KARACHI: Pakistani police yesterday shot dead six suspected militants thought to be planning a major sectarian attack and seized explosives, suicide vests and...
ISLAMABAD: The top mediators of the Nawaz Sharif government appear to have been succeeded in convincing the ex-military dictator Pervez Musharraf to leave...
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-N government plans to hold election to fill the posts of chairmen of 17 standing committees of the National...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is keen for his Indian counterpart to visit Pakistan before the next Indian elections due by May,...
PESHAWAR: Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI)-led coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province is dragging its feet on slashing the expenditures of Governor’s House...
A soldier lifts a child over the waiting crowd at a gate of the Tacloban airport yesterday. MANILA: The US said relief channels...
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse hit back angrily yesterday against allegations of war crimes which are set to overshadow this week’s Commonwealth...
YANGON: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi told investors at a European Union forum yesterday that business leaders should not ignore the...
SINGAPORE: The wealthy city-state of Singapore has for the first time lifted the death penalty given to a drug trafficker, commuting his sentence...
DHAKA: Bangladeshi garment factory owners said yesterday they had agreed to a proposed 77 percent rise in the minimum wage, but police used...
BANGKOK: At least three people were killed and five injured when a blast thought to be from an oxygen tank tore through a...
Venezuela’s National Assembly debates a measure that would give Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro extraordinary powers over the economy following a controversial attempt to...
BRUSSELS: Europe’s abdication from climate leadership would stunt growth in the region and hand a huge economic advantage to China and the United...
HANOVER: Former German president Christian Wulff launched a spirited defence at the start of his influence-peddling trial yesterday, saying the accusation that cost...
WASHINGTON: Barack Obama admitted yesterday he deserved to be “slapped around” over the chaotic debut of his health care law, and pledged to...
NEW YORK CITY: A New York judge yesterday found a Canadian actress guilty of stalking and harassing US movie and television star Alec...
TOKYO: Tokyo stocks surged 1.95 percent Friday to close at their highest level in six months, boosted by a weaker yen and hopes...
KIEV: The EU parliament’s envoy for Ukraine yesterday warned Kiev risked losing the chance of signing a key deal with the bloc indefinitely...
