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Islamabad: Unknown militants yesterday morning attacked a police station in northwestern Pakistan, police sources said, adding that security forces managed to foil the...

Islamabad: Police thwarted yesterday an attempt to blow up the residence of Pakistan Muslim League’s (PML) former Member of National Assembly (MNA) Anjum...

ISLAMABAD: A court extended the custody of former dictator Pervez Musharraf yesterday, dampening hopes he would be able to leave the country any...

Kabul: Two senior Taliban commanders were killed and another Taliban commander was arrested during a military operation by Afghan army in central Maidan...

Islamabad: The Pakistani Foreign Ministry said that the recent visit of Premier Mohamed Nawaz Sharif to Washington will help boosting bilateral relations which...

Philippine soldiers pulling a trolley loaded with relief goods from a C-130 military cargo plane at Tagbilaran airport, Bohol province, on Thursday. MANILA:...

SEOUL: South Korea yesterday carried out a military exercise aimed at repelling any attempted landing on a tiny set of islets also claimed...

JINAN: A Chinese court yesterday rejected fallen politician Bo Xilai’s appeal against his corruption conviction and confirmed his life sentence, as authorities looked...

DHAKA: Five demonstrators were killed across Bangladesh and more than 100,000 opposition activists rallied in the capital Dhaka yesterday to demand that Prime...

MALE: Police in the Maldives said yesterday they had begun investigating a claim by opposition chief Mohamed Nasheed that he was in danger...

PHNOM PENH: About 20,000 Cambodian opposition supporters turned out yesterday in a new show of strength as they wrapped up three days of...

KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian court yesterday acquitted a former transport minister implicated in one of the country’s biggest financial scandals, sparking opposition accusations...

Britsh Prime Minister David Cameron, flanked by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (left) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, during a meeting entitled...

SOFIA: DNA tests confirmed yesterday a Bulgarian Roma couple living in dire poverty as the biological parents of Maria, a mystery blond girl...

LONDON: Britain’s royal family yesterday rushed to deny a report that Prince Charles believed becoming king when Queen Elizabeth II dies would be...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Nigerian troops killed 74 members of Boko Haram in an air and ground assault, the military said yesterday, a further sign...

PRAGUE: Czechs began voting yesterday in a two-day snap election that will likely see them hand power to the left-wing opposition in frustration...

LONDON: A Ukrainian student was jailed for a minimum of 40 years by a British court yesterday for murdering a Muslim grandfather and...