HANOI: Vietnam imprisoned a leading critic of the communist regime for tax evasion yesterday -- a move described by the United States as...
HANOI: Vietnam imprisoned a leading critic of the communist regime for tax evasion yesterday -- a move described by the United States as...
BANGKOK: A Thai court yesterday sentenced a woman to five years in jail for breaching the kingdom’s strict royal defamation laws in the...
JAKARTA: Beijing and Jakarta signed a series of economic agreements yesterday as Chinese President Xi Jinping began a trade-focused trip to Indonesia, his...
Furloughed government union workers demonstrate on the side of Constitution Avenue in Washington DC. WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama yesterday cancelled two Asia...
ROME: Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi yesterday abandoned his bid to topple the government, voting for a confidence vote in a humiliating climbdown after key...
MOSCOW: Russian authorities charged Greenpeace activists from several nations with piracy yesterday over a protest against Arctic oil drilling at a platform owned...
MANCHESTER: British Prime Minister David Cameron cast a national election in 2015 as a choice between his “pro-business” ruling Conservative party and what...
NAIROBI: Bodies have been retrieved from Kenya’s Westgate mall following a brutal siege by Islamist gunmen, police said yesterday, as the extremists warned...
WASHINGTON: Large sections of the US government closed down on Tuesday after Congress was unable to reach an agreement on funding for the...
Prime Minister Manmmohan Singh and Minister for Urban Development Kamal Nath pay respects at the memorial to the Father of the Nation Mahatma...
SRINAGAR: India’s military is fighting the biggest group of infiltrators in Kashmir to cross from Pakistan in years, a top general said yesterday....
NEW DELHI: India’s Congress-led government yesterday withdrew a decree which would have allowed convicted politicians to run for elections while appeals were pending,...
New Delhi: Allies of the ruling UPA voiced their unhappiness yesterday over the government’s handling of the controversial ordinance - first by passing...
New Delhi: A group of victims of the Muzaffarnagar riots in Uttar Pradesh and Muslim religious leaders from 14 states yesterday demanded speedy...
Kolkata: Welcoming union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde’s missive to state chief ministers urging them to ensure that no Muslim youth is wrongfully harassed...
Amr Moussa (left), Chairman of the Committee to amend the Egypt’s constitution, with European Union Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton, in Shura Council,...
BEIRUT: Seventeen countries including the United States, France and Australia have agreed to receive quotas of refugees fleeing the bloody conflict in Syria,...
TEHRAN: Iran’s President Hassan Rowhani said yesterday that Israel was “upset and angry” with signs of an emerging new relationship between the Islamic...
