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Kabul: Taliban militants fired at least 12 missiles on US-run Bagram airfield late on Sunday night, local authorities in northern Parwan province of...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has decided to investigate whether rules were followed in issuance of over 100,000 gratis...

Islamabad: Senior police officer, Nisar Mengal, was gunned down yesterday in Balochistan’s restive town  of Khuzdar, it was reported yesterday. Officials said Mengal...

ISLAMABAD: Amidst soaring tensions, senior military officials from Pakistan and India are expected to meet next month to come up with a clear...

KARACHI: Following the Pakistani government’s recent progress towards auction of next-generation mobile spectrum licences, the country is once again looking for high-speed mobile...

Islamabad: US special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan James Dobbins arrived in Islamabad to finalise the agenda of a meeting between Prime Minister...

Thousands of people line up for charity packages given out by Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ), in Manila yesterday. MANILA: More than...

DHAKA: Workers at a Bangladeshi garment factory yesterday freed a garment factory boss they had held captive in his office for more than...

MANILA: The Philippine National Police is validating rumours that Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founding chairman Nur Misuari has fled to the Middle...

SEOUL: South Korea said yesterday it had postponed a planned investment road show aimed at drumming up foreign interest in the Kaesong industrial...

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s war crimes court will this week edge closer to delivering justice to Khmer Rouge victims as it begins hearing final...

BANGKOK: Thai authorities said yesterday they had recovered the bodies of 10 migrant workers from Myanmar whose boat is believed to have sunk...

The pictures of the 2013 Nobel Prize laureates in Economic Sciences (from left) Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller are displayed...

  MOSCOW: Russian police rounded up more than 1,600 migrants yesterday here after rioting swept through a southern neighbourhood a day earlier over a...

LONDON: Britain’s High Court yesterday threw out a libel suit by a former Russian interior ministry investigator over accusations that he was involved...

BERLIN: Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) dug in their heels yesterday over the introduction of a minimum wage ahead of a second round...

LONDON: British detectives investigating the 2007 disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal published two electronic images yesterday of a man they said was...

ROME: A migrant boat carrying 137 people reached Italy from North Africa yesterday as the Italian government prepared to launch new naval and...