PANAMA CITY: The Panama Canal authority said Thursday it will impose as much as a $1m fine on the North Korean freighter caught...
PANAMA CITY: The Panama Canal authority said Thursday it will impose as much as a $1m fine on the North Korean freighter caught...
COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan court yesterday issued an order preventing the sale, distribution and advertising of all Fonterra milk products for two weeks,...
SEOUL: South Korea yesterday proposed formal talks next week with the North on arranging the first reunion in three years of families separated...
HONG KONG: Masked men stole around 240 luxury watches worth a reported $1.29m from a Hong Kong store in a matter of minutes...
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s opposition leader Sam Rainsy yesterday said mass protests were “a last resort” against hotly disputed election results that handed victory...
BEIJING: A Chinese court yesterday upheld an 11-year prison sentence handed to the brother-in-law of jailed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, a lawyer said....
Workers walk home from the central business district of Wellington as the trains stop working after a 6.5 earthquake hit central New Zealand...
WASHINGTON: US First Lady Michelle Obama said in remarks published yesterday that America is ready for a woman president, but would not comment...
WASHINGTON: The National Security Agency has repeatedly violated privacy rules and overstepped its authority, an internal audit has revealed, despite vows from President...
LONDON: The British public should be consulted on the final resting place of Richard III, the 15th-century king whose skeleton was found under...
LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron has called on European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso to send monitors to observe “politically motivated” checks...
JEDDAH: The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia pledged his country’s support to Egypt’s fight on...
BEIRUT: Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah yesterday accused radical Sunni Islamists of being behind a car bomb that killed 24 people in Beirut...
UNITED NATIONS: A UN mission to investigate alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria’s civil war tentatively plans to enter the country tomorrow,...
DUBAI: Protesters calling for the overthrow of Bahrain’s ruling Sunni monarchy clashed with police across several Shia villages overnight, witnesses said yesterday without...
DUBAI: Iranian President Hassan Rowhani appointed outgoing Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi to head the Atomic Energy Organisation yesterday, state media said, replacing...
Survivors being brought to a hospital in Cebu after a ferry collided with a cargo ship in Cebu, central Philippines, yesterday. CEBU, Philippines:...
MANILA: Budget Philippine carrier Zest Air was banned from flying over safety infractions, effective immediately, the country’s aviation regulator said yesterday. The small...
