BANGUI, Central African Republic: Sustained gunfire and looting broke out overnight in the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), causing many people...
BANGUI, Central African Republic: Sustained gunfire and looting broke out overnight in the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), causing many people...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: Two attacks by suspected Boko Haram insurgents have killed 24 people in Nigeria’s northeast in the latest violence believed to be...
BERLIN: German investigators into Nazi war crimes will send the files of more than 40 former Auschwitz death camp personnel to state prosecutors...
A Jordanian woman casts her ballot for municipal elections at a polling station in Amman yesterday. AMMAN: Jordan’s municipal elections drew a poor...
TEHRAN: Iran said yesterday that it had rejected fresh requests by Ahmed Shaheed, the UN’s monitor for human rights in the Islamic republic,...
DUBAI: Al Qaeda in Yemen has denied US allegations it is plotting massive attacks that prompted the closure of Western missions in the...
KHARTOUM: The impact of Sudan’s floods has widened, the United Nations said yesterday, with more than half a million people affected by this...
CAIRO: Sherif Gamal Siyam spent his last minutes in an Egyptian police van, suffocating to death after tear gas was fired into the...
SHANGHAI: Shanghai has served up a “roasted” version of a Dutch artist’s giant yellow duck, complete with drumsticks and crispy brown skin. Florentijn...
NEW DELHI: India’s monument to love, the Taj Mahal, was once even more romantic, cloaked behind towering foliage and only shyly revealing its...
THE HAGUE: Teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, shot in the head by a Taliban militant last October after campaigning for girls' right to education,...
DOHA: HE the Minister of State for Defense Affairs Major General Hamad bin Ali Al Attiyah received on Tuesday a letter from Greek...
BANGKOK: At least 16 people have died and tens of thousands of others have lost homes, land or livestock across Laos in heavy...
RIYADH: The Executive Council of the GCC Arab Education Bureau held its 76th session here on Tuesday. The Council discussed the Bureau's strategy...
TEHRAN: The Gulf sultanate of Oman is in talks to buy Iranian gas in a 25-year deal worth around $60 billion, Iranian Oil...
ROME: A cargo ship on Tuesday rescued 109 migrants coming from Libya after spotting their boat in rough seas some 30 nautical miles...
DOHA: The Qatar Exchange down on Tuesday 127.13 points or 1.28 percent to 9,771.41 points from the previous closing of 9,898.54 points. The...
KHARTOUM: Gunmen in Sudan's troubled Darfur region were holding two employees of the Red Cross on Tuesday but six others have been freed,...
