Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad yesterday. BAGHDAD: A series of bombings across Baghdad were the deadliest...
Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad yesterday. BAGHDAD: A series of bombings across Baghdad were the deadliest...
CAIRO: Egypt’s army-installed government is expected to announce that foreign mediation designed to end the country’s political crisis has failed, a state-run newspaper...
TUNIS: Tunisia’s political crisis deepened yesterday as the elected National Constituent Assembly suspended its work until the government and opposition open negotiations on...
DOHA: Banks will have official Eid Al Fitr holidays for five days beginning tomorrow, but from the second day of Eid some of...
TEHRAN: President Hassan Rowhani said yesterday that Iran was ready for “serious” talks on its nuclear programme without delay and that US calls...
Members of the Youngs Together activist group pose with masks of Edward Snowden, former US National Security Agency contractor, during a public hearing...
An Indian youth dangles from a power line before diving into the floodwaters of an overflowing Ganges river in Allahabad yesterday. The monsoon,...
Supporters of Egypt’s deposed president Mohammed Mursi hold up his portraits during a protest in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria yesterday. Foreign envoys...
DOHA: A charitable body is building 100 homes that it would also be furnishing to be given away to newly-married Qatari couples free...
DOHA: A Qatari philanthropist has donated through Doha-based charitable organisation, RAF, 10,000 tonnes of wheat flour for Syrian refugees, while Qatar Charity (QC)...
People board a train home ahead of Eid Al Fitr holiday in Rawalpindi yesterday.
QUETTA: Separatist insurgents in Pakistan executed 13 bus passengers heading home to celebrate Eid Al Fitr, authorities said yesterday, in what they described...
KABUL: Taliban leader Mullah Omar yesterday dismissed elections due in Afghanistan next year as “a waste of time”, posing a challenge to international...
PESHAWAR: Pakistan-based Taliban fighters opened fire on police officers investigating a June massacre of foreign climbers, killing three, officials said yesterday. The Pakistani...
Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force’s new helicopter destroyer, DDH183 Izumo, at the launch ceremony in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, yesterday. TOKYO: Japan unveiled its...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s opposition yesterday demanded an international investigation into a deadly army crackdown on villagers who were demonstrating against contaminated water supplies....
SUBIC BAY: The Philippines promised intensified sea patrols yesterday as it welcomed the arrival of a second warship from the US to bolster...
KUALA LUMPUR: Ten people dressed in ninja-style garb have been detained after they arrived at Malaysia’s royal palace in a bizarre attempt to...
