New Delhi: Heavy rains, accompanied by thunder and lightning, lashed the capital yesterday resulting in flooded roads and massive traffic jams, thereby dampening...
New Delhi: Heavy rains, accompanied by thunder and lightning, lashed the capital yesterday resulting in flooded roads and massive traffic jams, thereby dampening...
The flooded village of Bolshoi Ussuriysky island close to the city of the Khabarovsk in Russia’s Far Eastern Amur region. MOSCOW: Russians in...
South African workers from automotive manufacturer Volkswagen protest during a strike outside the VW factory in Uitenhage, yesterday. PORT ELIZABETH: More than 30,000...
MADRID: Spain told Britain yesterday it must remove a concrete reef laid in the waters off Gibraltar before Madrid will agree to dialogue...
HARARE: Zimbabwe’s top court has ruled that veteran Robert Mugabe won a fiercely contested presidential election fair and square, paving way for a...
KANO: Doubts persisted yesterday over a Nigerian military claim that the leader of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram may have been killed, with...
KANO: Doubts persisted yesterday over a Nigerian military claim that the leader of Islamist extremist group Boko Haram may have been killed, with...
MOSCOW: Russian police yesterday killed nine suspected Islamist militants including the leader of a group behind the killing of a religious leader in...
Pervez Musharraf RAWALPINDI: A Pakistani court yesterday charged former military ruler Pervez Musharraf with the 2007 murder of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, an...
KABUL: Afghan Attorney-General Muhammad Isaaq Aloko has kept his job despite a decision by an angry President Hamid Karzai to sack him over...
LAHORE: The by-polls scheduled for tomorrow are important for major political parties not only because 16 national and 26 provincial seats will be...
Kabul: Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai has lined up a high-profile negotiating team to thrash out a critical long-term security deal with the US,...
Islamabad: Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra arrived at Nur Khan Airbase, Pakistan, yesterday on a two-day visit to further promote ties. The Minister...
Members of the opposition Democrat party (centre) are surrounded by parliament police officers in the House in Bangkok, yesterday. Thailand’s parliament briefly descended...
TOKYO: An estimated 300 tonnes of radioactive water is believed to have leaked from a tank at Japan’s crippled nuclear plant, the operator...
BANGKOK: Dozens of Muslim Rohingya boat people from Myanmar escaped yesterday from a Thai immigration centre, police said, as a rights group called...
DHAKA: Bangladesh prosecutors yesterday charged Human Right Watch with contempt of court after the New York-based rights group criticised the conviction of a...
BANGKOK: Myanmar must address anti-Muslim propaganda and stamp out a culture of impunity for religious violence or risk “catastrophic” levels of conflict, a...
