New Delhi: Veteran politician and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has said he is not in the prime ministerial race and...
New Delhi: Veteran politician and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has said he is not in the prime ministerial race and...
Iran’s new President Hassan Rowhani (right) holds talks with Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on his first official day in office in Tehran...
LAHORE: The government in Pakistan’s Punjab province plans to develop an industrial city at a cost of Rs3bn along motorway during current fiscal...
JALALABAD: A lawyer who prosecuted Taliban militants was among 17 wounded by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan’s east yesterday, police said, a day...
KABUL: The US and its allies have put promoting women’s rights at the core of their 12-year mission in Afghanistan and Liza Ghausi...
ISLAMABAD: Fearing uncertainty in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of US forces in 2014, the Pakistan government has formulated a draft policy which calls...
Sri Lankan para-military Special Task Force commandos stand guard outside the police station at Weliweriya, on the outskirts of Colombo yesterday, as residents...
A South Korean security guard stands on the empty road connecting Kaesong Industrial Complex with South’s Customs, Immigration, Quarantine at inter-Korean transit office,...
WELLINGTON: China has blocked all imports of milk powder from New Zealand, a New Zealand minister said yesterday, after bacteria that can lead...
TOKYO: The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has given its first public estimate of the size of the leakage of radioactive...
MANILA: Three village officials have been killed in an ambush in the northern Philippines in an attack that could be linked to local...
The US Embassy in Cairo that was closed following the Al Qaeda threat. SANAA: Security was tight at US missions in and around...
WASHINGTON: A senior Democratic senator said yesterday that the US-Russia relationship had become “poisonous” and urged President Barack Obama to consider moving next...
LONDON: Half a century after Britain’s infamous Great Train Robbery, the most notorious member of the gang, Ronnie Biggs, is unrepentant and says...
Cardiff: The mother of Bradley Manning, the US army private who is this week expected to be handed a long jail sentence for...
Cars wait to enter Spain at its border with the British Colony of Gibraltar, southern Spain, yesterday. MADRID/GIBRALTAR: Spain is studying retaliatory measures...
SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday named September 7 as election day, hoping to complete a stunning political comeback with victory for...
HARARE: International unease mounted yesterday over the re-election of Africa’s oldest leader Robert Mugabe in polls denounced by Zimbabwe’s opposition as “stolen”. Mugabe,...
