CAIRO: Egyptian Islamist parties, including the president’s, yesterday called for a “million-man march” on June 21 to counter a planned protest at the...
CAIRO: Egyptian Islamist parties, including the president’s, yesterday called for a “million-man march” on June 21 to counter a planned protest at the...
AMMAN: Jordanian journalists yesterday demonstrated near the royal palace in protest at a “repressive” government decision to block 290 unlicensed local news websites....
AMMAN: Jordan’s parliament has approved an agreement with Britain on extraditing suspects wanted by Amman, including radical cleric Abu Qatada who has resisted...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has smashed sculptures of horses erected on a roundabout in the southwest after the kingdom’s top cleric denounced them as...
Filipino soldiers raise the national flag during a ceremony to mark the Independence Day in front of a post office in Manila yesterday....
BEIJING: China’s Supreme Court yesterday ordered that people who neglect workplace safety should be “severely” punished, state media said, after the country’s deadliest...
BANGKOK: After nearly a decade of conflict that has left thousands dead, Thailand is considering handing over limited powers to its Muslim-majority south...
YANGON: Buddhist monks from across Myanmar will gather today for talks about the religious violence that has shaken the country, after some of...
SEOUL: South Korea rejected any blame yesterday for the collapse of planned talks with the North, as businessmen from a closed joint industrial...
MANILA: A total of 3,695 violators of the Commission on Elections’ gun ban have been arrested, police said yesterday. The ban started on ...
Military vehicles donated by Nato forces to Afghan security forces in Jalalabad yesterday. Kabul: Taliban militants attacked a Nato supplies convoy in Kabul-Kandahar...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has pledged to rein in human rights abuses by security forces in the resource-rich Baluchistan province as a first step towards...
ISLAMABAD: New Railways Minister Saad Rafique has put all deals for engines with China firms on hold and a major US supplier pulled...
Kabul: The Taliban forced dozens of primary schools in southern Afghanistan to close for two months when provincial officials banned motorbikes — the...
FAISALABAD, Pakistan: The US handed over control of Afghanistan’s Bagram jail to Kabul three months ago. But nothing has changed for dozens of...
KARACHI: After the arrival of illegal expatriates from 13 more countries, Pakistan is housing illegals from 201 countries, including France, Switzerland, Egypt, Palestine,...
A Kashmiri child works in a workshop in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, yesterday, which was marked as World Day...
New Delhi/Kolkata/Patna: The political drama around the rise of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi yesterday threatened to impact Bihar, with the state’s ruling...
