KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s interior ministry yesterday warned stateless residents against demonstrating to mark the international day of non-violence tomorrow, warning it will deal...
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s interior ministry yesterday warned stateless residents against demonstrating to mark the international day of non-violence tomorrow, warning it will deal...
TEHRAN: The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said yesterday that President Hasan Rowhani should have refused to take last week’s historic telephone call...
A general view of the collapsed second floor of the Westgate shopping mall after the four-day fighting between militants and security forces in...
ROME: Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi yesterday sought backing from his party for a contested bid to bring down the government, as political instability hit...
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives will start talks with their defeated centre-left election rivals on Friday, the first step on a long...
ROME: Thirteen asylum-seekers drowned yesterday while attempting to swim ashore after their vessel ran aground off Italy’s coast, the local mayor said. “There...
BRUSSELS: Lawmakers in the European Parliament rejected yesterday planned new EU flight time limits for pilots, saying the proposals did not go far...
FLORENCE: The retrial of American Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher opened in Florence yesterday...
THE HAGUE: Dutch and British police have arrested four suspected human traffickers and rescued four teenage girls hidden in the back of a...
Human rights activists hold anti-Prevention Crime Act posters during a protest outside Parliament House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, yesterday. They protested against proposed...
BEIJING: More than 70 people were missing after three Chinese boats sank in a powerful typhoon in the South China Sea, state media...
TOKYO: Japan and the US will discuss strengthening defences against cyber-attacks, reports said yesterday, as Tokyo looks to play a more active role...
YANGON: Terrified Muslims hid in their homes in northwest Myanmar yesterday after armed police dispersed a Buddhist mob that torched houses and surrounded...
MANILA: Most Filipinos are hopeful that a peace deal between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Milf) can be forged but...
JAKARTA: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott skirted the question of asylum seekers in talks yesterday in Indonesia, an issue which has threatened to...
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s parliamentary speaker scored another victory in the battle for his job yesterday after the high court upheld a ruling against his...
BANGKOK: A Thai man was sentenced to nine years in prison by a Bangkok court yesterday for the murder of a Japanese woman...
In this file photo, former finance minister and presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (left) greets a supporter during an election campaign rally in...