Rescue workers carry a victim after a makeshift building collapsed at a coal cleaning plant in Jinzhong yesterday. BEIJING: A landslide buried 17...
Rescue workers carry a victim after a makeshift building collapsed at a coal cleaning plant in Jinzhong yesterday. BEIJING: A landslide buried 17...
Dhaka: The Bangladesh government ordered criminal cases be dropped against top union leaders yesterday, a ministry official said, a move hailed by labour...
MANILA: The European Union has lifted a three-year ban on Philippine Airlines flying into its airspace after the national carrier addressed safety concerns,...
SEOUL: South Korea said talks with North Korea on reopening a jointly-run industrial estate ended without agreement yesterday, but the two sides agreed...
WASHINGTON: Lawmakers have called for the United States to cut off aid to Cambodia unless veteran strongman Hun Sen allows free elections on...
Yangon: Four Muslim men have been jailed for murder following religious violence in central Myanmar in March that left dozens dead, an official...
BANGKOK: More than 30 Thai monks have been defrocked for illegal drug use, an official said yesterday in the latest scandal to hit...
CEO of Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railways Inc, Edward Bukhardt during a press conference in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, yesterday. LAC-MEGANTIC, Canada: A lone engineer...
BRASILIA: Irate Latin American nations are demanding explanations from the US about new allegations that it spied on both allies and foes in...
LONDON: A British special forces sniper was yesterday convicted of unlawfully possessing a pistol and more than 300 rounds of ammunition, in a...
ROME: Italy’s coalition government came under pressure yesterday from members of Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right party protesting the former premier’s legal troubles and from...
WASHINGTON: The White House warned Republican lawmakers yesterday not to block a comprehensive immigration reform bill just to appease “far right” conservatives who...
People shop on the first day of Ramadan at the Karaj Al Hajez crossing, a passageway separating Aleppo’s Bustan Al Qasr, which is...
Beirut: Activist Alaa Morelli escaped the worst in Syrian prisons, but to secure her freedom she lied during a forced “confession” on state...
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council called on Lebanese Hezbollah militants yesterday to end any involvement in the conflict in neighbouring Syria, while...
BOOSTER MILITARY OUT-POST: Israel is bolstering its forces on the once-quiet frontier with Syria where it believes Lebanese Hezbollah militants are preparing for...
ISTANBUL: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party moved yesterday to curb the power of an architects’ group involved in weeks of...
CAIRO: Egypt issued a warrant yesterday for the arrest of the Muslim Brotherhood’s supreme leader Mohammed Badie in connection with deadly violence in...