KANDAHAR: Seven Afghan civilians believe to be kidnapped by the Taliban last month have been found dead with their hands bound behind their...
KANDAHAR: Seven Afghan civilians believe to be kidnapped by the Taliban last month have been found dead with their hands bound behind their...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top accountability watchdog, the National Accountability Bureau, has named former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in the Rs22bn Rental Power Projects...
ISLAMABAD: The headmistress of a public school in Chakwal has expelled a female student after the latter got married, stating that a married...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s National Centre for Physics (NCP) is set to take another step towards allowing scientists to develop international linkages. In collaboration with...
Police block the area after an explosion in Taiyuan, north China’s Shanxi province, yesterday. BEIJING: A series of bombs packed with ball bearings...
YANGON: Myanmar may release scores of political prisoners this month to fulfill a promise by its reformist president to free prisoners of conscience...
BANGKOK: The Thai Senate will reject an amnesty bill critics say is aimed at bringing back convicted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra from exile,...
SEOUL: North Korea accused South Korean President Park Geun-Hye of “moral vulgarity” yesterday after she suggested she was ready to hold a summit...
DHAKA: Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus yesterday blasted the Bangladesh government after it passed a law he said would pave the way for the...
DHAKA: Bangladesh yesterday defended the death sentences handed to 152 soldiers for mutiny as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called...
MANILA: The Philippines evacuated coastal areas and put emergency workers on alert yesterday as a storm expected to grow into a super typhoon...
BERLIN: The German government will study whether US fugitive leaker Edward Snowden can be questioned in Russia, as it sought yesterday to calm...
BOGOTA/HAVANA: Colombia’s government and Marxist FARC rebels reached a “fundamental agreement” on the guerrillas’ future in politics, one of the thorniest issues addressed...
WASHINGTON: The United States plans to spend billions to upgrade a decades-old atomic bomb designed to stop a Soviet invasion of Europe, as...
LUANDA: An Angolan teenager who has been in prison for two months awaiting trial for insulting President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has started...
KIEV: European Union mediators resumed efforts in Ukraine yesterday to secure the release from jail of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko as the clock...
UNITED NATIONS: A UN envoy said yesterday that UN troops would help reinforce the Democratic Republic of Congo’s borders to stop rebels and...
PARIS: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polonium, his widow Suha said yesterday after receiving the results...
