BEIJING: Supporters of China’s disgraced senior politician Bo Xilai, who has been jailed for corruption, have set up a political party, two separate...
BEIJING: Supporters of China’s disgraced senior politician Bo Xilai, who has been jailed for corruption, have set up a political party, two separate...
JAKARTA: An Indonesian army helicopter carrying construction workers to build a military outpost crashed in the jungles of Borneo yesterday as it came...
DHAKA: The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday announced another 84-hour nationwide strike, starting today, after police arrested BNP leaders, triggering violent protests...
MALE: Ballot counting began late yesterday in elections in the Maldives to choose a new president and avert a constitutional crisis after two...
MANILA: Perjury charges await alleged pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim-Napoles as Senate leaders want her punished for “outright lying” during her appearance...
MANILA: Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) Founding Chairman Nur Misuari has reunited with his family in a Middle East country and is preparing...
Supporters of banned Pakistan charity organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawa torch the US flag during a protest against US drone attacks in the Pakistani tribal region,...
WASHINGTON: Afghanistan troop casualties climbed 79 percent during key fighting months this year as the still-resistent Taliban kept up the pace of its...
ISLAMABAD: Autopsy reports of more than 100 cases sent for chemical examination are missing at the Punjab Forensic Science Agency (PFSA), Lahore. Police...
US Secretary of State John Kerry (second left), European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (centre) and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif...
TEHRAN: Two senior Iranian MPs accused French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius yesterday of defending Israel, which objects to world powers reaching a deal...
ISTANBUL: Syria’s splintered opposition coalition insisted yesterday it would not go to peace talks in Geneva unless pressure was brought to bear on...
Officials of the Syrian National Coalition and Syrian National Council during a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, yesterday. BEIRUT: Rebels retook most of a...
ISTANBUL: Syria’s splintered opposition coalition insisted yesterday it would not go to peace talks in Geneva unless pressure was brought to bear on...
CAIRO: Egypt will expand cooperation with Russia in the wake of a diplomatic spat with long-time ally the US following president Mohammed Mursi’s...
MOGADISHU: Somalia’s president vowed yesterday he would not halt efforts to restore peace and security to the country in the wake of a...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has recorded two new cases of the MERS virus, the health ministry said yesterday. Saudi Arabia accounts for a full...
ADDIS ABABA: The Ethiopian government is repatriating its citizens living in Saudi Arabia illegally, after reports that an Ethiopian was killed by Saudi...
