GENEVA: A widely anticipated peace conference for Syria will probably not take place next month as hoped, UN peace envoy to Syria Lakhdar...
GENEVA: A widely anticipated peace conference for Syria will probably not take place next month as hoped, UN peace envoy to Syria Lakhdar...
WASHINGTON: The US military has failed to prepare a realistic “Plan B” if political turmoil forces the closure of a vital naval base...
Television screens show former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden during a news bulletin at an electronics store in Moscow, yesterday. MOSCOW/NAANTALI, Finland:...
QUNU, South Africa: Nelson Mandela’s close family gathered yesterday at his rural homestead to discuss the failing health of the South African anti-apartheid...
LUXEMBOURG: European Union ministers yesterday unanimously recommended that Serbia begin EU membership negotiations by the very latest in January 2014, as the former...
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations will screen all Chadian troops offered for the world body’s peacekeeping force in Mali to make sure there...
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court struck down a key part of the Voting Rights Act yesterday in a ruling denounced as a setback...
PARIS: The Eiffel Tower was closed yesterday following a strike by workers at the Paris landmark for better work conditions and more pay...
Legislators from Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang party and opposition try to seize parliament’s podium yesterday. TAIPEI: Fighting broke out in Taiwan’s parliament yesterday as...
JAKARTA: Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has apologised to Singapore and Malaysia over fires that have cloaked the countries in thick haze, as...
BANGKOK: Rebels in Thailand’s Muslim-majority south called yesterday for the army to return to their bases over Ramadan in exchange for a ceasefire...
PHOM PEHN: A Cambodian court sentenced a former governor to 18 months in prison for shooting three female workers at a factory supplying...
SEOUL: South Korean President Park Geun-Hye heads for a summit in China, looking to exploit signs of Beijing’s growing frustration with its unpredictable...
BANGKOK: The Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that Japan will give visa exemption to Thai tourists from July 1. Foreign Ministry...
DOHA: Organisers of the summer edition of Doha Trade Fair 2013, which opens today at the Doha Exhibition Centre, expects daily footfalls to...
Date of Birth • June 3, 1980 Qualifications • He obtained a secondary school certificate from Sherborne School in the UK. • Subsequently...
“I extend my best wishes to H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani as he assumes his new role as the Emir...
Nato soldiers leave the site of the attack in central Kabul yesterday. KABUL: Taliban gunmen and bombers using fake Nato identification attacked an...
