From Left: Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica, Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and...
From Left: Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica, Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro and...
LONDON: Legislation that would guarantee an in-out referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union by 2017 cleared its first hurdle in the...
KIROV, Russia: Russian prosecutors yesterday sought a six-year jail sentence for top opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who vowed to never flee his country...
BRUSSELS: European Union officials head into complex security talks in Washington on Monday threatening to suspend key data-swapping deals with the United States...
LONDON: It could be weeks before Prince William’s wife Catherine gives birth to Britain’s future monarch — but the world’s media, taking no...
LONDON: Britain’s Prince Harry has qualified as an Apache helicopter commander, the Ministry of Defence announced yesterday, putting him in charge of the...
BELFAST: The two sides of Northern Ireland’s sectarian divide are holding talks in advance of the Protestants’ annual parades for the first time...
With people’s purchasing power going up in cash-rich Qatar, more and more people are eating out. Obesity in the Qatari population is already...
By Azmat Haroon Even as the culture of eating out is flourishing in Qatar, many people are opting for diet food to fight...
DOHA: Qatar is taking steps to ensure that low-income workers in the country are paid wages through the banking system as is the...
Egyptian supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood shout slogans while holding a picture of deposed president Mohammed Mursi during a rally outside Cairo’s Rabaa...
An employee distributes newspapers, with a photograph (R) of former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward … REYKJAVIK: A bid by Edward Snowden for...
GENEVA: The World Health Organization is forming an emergency committee of international experts to prepare for a possible worsening of the Middle East...
CAIRO: Egypt's controversial public prosecutor Abdel Meguid Mahmud said Friday he was to resign, days after being reinstated, citing possible conflicts of interest...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: A suicide bomber killed 12 policemen in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan on Friday when he blew himself up inside...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's new government, striving to appear determined to rein in escalating crime and militancy, has ended a ban on the death penalty,...
BAGHDAD: Attacks killed five people in town squares in Iraq on Friday, including four who died when a suicide bomber set off his...
MANILA: The Philippines said Friday it was aiming to lift more than 10 million people out of poverty in less than two years,...
