DUBAI: An Uzbek woman who caused 13 hours of panic at the Dubai public prosecutor’s office when she threatened to blow herself up...
DUBAI: An Uzbek woman who caused 13 hours of panic at the Dubai public prosecutor’s office when she threatened to blow herself up...
TUNIS: Two Tunisian rappers have been given 21 month jail terms in absentia for insulting officials, their lawyer said yesterday, criticising the ruling...
Residents stand next to damaged houses after a tornado hit in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, Japan, yesterday. TOKYO: A tornado ripped...
TOKYO: The west of Japan had its hottest ever summer this year, official figures showed yesterday after a season in which heatstroke reportedly...
TOKYO: High radiation levels are spreading at the ruined Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator said yesterday, and the Japanese government prepared to offer...
COLOMBO: A Catholic-run human rights group working in northeastern Sri Lanka said yesterday it had been harassed by security personnel after meeting UN...
SEOUL: North and South Korea held the first meeting yesterday of a committee tasked with reopening their Kaesong joint industrial zone — five...
BANGKOK: The International Labour Organisation (ILO) yesterday warned of “serious abuses” in the Thai fishing industry — a major global supplier — such...
BEIJING: Beijing unveiled yet another slew of measures yesterday to curb a choking pollution problem, including limiting the number of new vehicles on...
MADRID: Spanish police yesterday said they have arrested a gang of 10 bank robbers in Madrid who used the drains to enter and...
LONDON: A cluster of new skyscrapers transforming the London skyline are often blamed for spoiling the view. Now one has been accused of...
Filipino activists hold a demonstration in front of the Japanese embassy urging Tokyo to end dolphin killings, in Pasay City, yesterday.
MANILA: Philippine officials said yesterday that President Benigno Aquino cancelled a trip to a Chinese trade fair after Beijing demanded that he first...
COTABATO: Communist rebels have burned down a rubber processing facility in the southern Philippines, leaving a landmine that killed a factory worker as...
MANILA: A Philippine panel preparing homicide charges against the country’s coastguards over the death of a Taiwanese fisherman has formally asked his fellow...
MANILA: Divers have recovered more dead bodies from a ferry that sank after colliding with a cargo ship, raising the death toll from...
MANILA: National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Director Nonnatus Rojas tendered his resignation yesterday, citing command responsibility amid allegations that two of his men...
MANILA: Senate President Franklin Drilon proposed yesterday that the trial of Janet Lim-Napoles be held in her place of detention at Fort Sto....