SEOUL: Public executions and torture are daily occurrences in North Korea’s prisons, according to dramatic testimony from former inmates at a UN Commission...
SEOUL: Public executions and torture are daily occurrences in North Korea’s prisons, according to dramatic testimony from former inmates at a UN Commission...
TAIPEI: Nine Indonesian fishing boat crewmen suspected of murdering their Taiwanese captain and chief engineer faced an angry attack from relatives when they...
MANILA: More than 200,000 flood-battered residents of the Philippine capital fled their homes yesterday as relentless monsoon rains, which have killed eight people,...
MANILA: The Philippines yesterday ordered the mandatory evacuation of its 6,000 nationals in Egypt after Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario visited the country...
MANILA: The confirmed death toll from a ferry disaster in the Philippines rose to 64 on Tuesday as more bodies were found, some...
MANILA: The Supreme Court (SC) has junked a petition to stop the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from using the automated election system (AES)...
BANGKOK: Myanmar must address anti-Muslim propaganda and stamp out a culture of impunity for religious violence or risk "catastrophic" levels of conflict, a...
DOHA: Qatar Exchange pursued its upswing trend on Tuesday adding 5.73 points 0.06 percent to advance to 10,044.13 points from 10,038.40 on Monday....
ABU DHABI: Qatar has sent its second tanker this month of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Egypt, struggling to cover its energy needs...
BANGKOK: Dozens of Muslim Rohingya boat people from Myanmar escaped Tuesday from a Thai immigration centre, police said, as a rights group called...
RIYADH: The Gulf Cooperation Council has criticised Lebanon's Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah for threatening to send more fighters to neighbouring Syria after a...
KABUL: Afghan Attorney-General Muhammad Isaaq Aloko has kept his job despite a decision by an angry President Hamid Karzai to sack him over...
MUMBAI: A leading Indian rationalist, who was campaigning for a law to eradicate superstition in a country famed for its mystics and gurus,...
SAN SALVADOR: Minister of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador Jaime Miranda met here today with charge d'Affaires of Qatar's Embassy in San Salvador...
VIENNA: U.N. atomic agency chief Yukiya Amano has not been able to narrow Israeli-Arab differences on how to move towards a Middle East...
DOHA: Qatar Airways (QA) has increased passenger baggage allowance up to 10 kgs on its worldwide routes, the national carrier said Tuesday. "Effective...
BEIJING: The death toll from devastating floods at opposite ends of China following torrential rains and the aftermath of a typhoon has risen...
DUBAI: The National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Aramco and Singapore's Sembcorp Marine to...
