Stone-throwing Palestinians run during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron yesterday. HEBRON: Israel’s forces fired rubber bullets at...
Stone-throwing Palestinians run during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron yesterday. HEBRON: Israel’s forces fired rubber bullets at...
TUNIS: Tunisia’s main trade union confederation called yesterday for mass protests to pressure the Islamist-led government to accept a compromise road map for...
KHARTOUM: Sudanese police fired tear gas yesterday to disperse hundreds of people protesting in a state capital against the lifting of petrol subsidies...
DUBAI: Iranian authorities have pardoned 80 prisoners ahead of President Hassan Rowhani’s visit to the United Nations in New York this week, Iranian...
BAGHDAD: A bomb targeting Sunni mourners in Baghdad killed 15 people yesterday. The blast in Adhamiyah, a Sunni area of north Baghdad, wounded...
TEHRAN: Iran yesterday finally took control of its civilian nuclear reactor at Bushehr, a project begun 37 years ago by West Germany, wracked...
LONDON: US singer Kelly Clarkson has been foiled in her attempt to take home a ring once owned by Jane Austen, after a...
ATHENS: Children playing in northwestern Greece found a bag containing ¤43,000 that an elderly woman had hidden in a derelict building fearing the...
SYDNEY: A tiny snake as slender as a pen forced the grounding of a Japan-bound Qantas flight in the Australian city of Sydney...
A devotee wears a mask of a deity while dancing during the Indra Jatra festival in Kathmandu yesterday. The eight-day long festival is...
King Norodom Sihamoni (left) and CPP President Chea Sim during the first parliament meeting at the National Assembly building yesterday. PHNOM PENH: The...
BEIJING: China has released a list of technologies and goods banned from export to North Korea because of their possible use in building...
COLOMBO: Sinhalese hardliners yesterday urged Sri Lanka’s president to reduce powers of a regional council won by Tamils in an election hailed internationally...
SINGAPORE: Singapore yesterday announced tighter rules on the hiring of foreign professional workers, saying companies will from next year have to show proof...
BANGKOK: More than 600,000 Thais have been affected by flooding since July and more than a quarter of Thailand’s provinces have been inundated,...
BEIJING: Former senior Chinese politician Bo Xilai has said he will appeal against his conviction and life sentence for corruption, a lawyer said...
Pakistani Christians hold a burning tyre as they protest in Lahore against the twin suicide bombings of a church in Peshawar and (Right)...
QUETTA: A bomb targeting police and claimed by the Taliban killed at least five people and wounded five in Pakistan’s restive southwest yesterday,...
