MANILA: After repeated forays into Philippine waters by Chinese vessels, the government is still hopeful of seeing the matter resolved through international arbitration...
MANILA: After repeated forays into Philippine waters by Chinese vessels, the government is still hopeful of seeing the matter resolved through international arbitration...
YANGON: A senior UN envoy yesterday attended the first talks between Myanmar’s government and Kachin rebels since a deadly ethnic conflict flared up...
SEOUL: South Korea yesterday shut down two nuclear reactors and delayed the scheduled start of operations at two more, prompting government warnings of...
DHAKA: Three small homemade bombs exploded after being hurled at the home of Bangladesh’s foreign minister early yesterday but no one was injured,...
MANILA: The Philippines yesterday allowed Taiwan experts to see video footage of the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by a Filipino coastguard...
LONDON: Online fashion retailer Asos has recalled a batch of belts after US customs officials discovered they were radioactive, the company said yesterday....
An Afghanistan National Army soldier inspects the body of a Taliban fighter in Panjwai district of Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan yesterday. KANDAHAR:...
LAHORE: Pakistan’s incoming prime minister Nawaz Sharif yesterday admitted it was a “tragedy” that a country with a nuclear arsenal was crippled by...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court sacked the head of the state-run anti-corruption agency yesterday because of his faulty selection, officials said, a move likely...
PESHAWAR: The World Health Organisation suspended its polio eradication campaign in a Pakistani city yesterday after two young workers were shot as they...
RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Railways is ready to drop a bombshell on its passengers when the new government led by Nawaz Sharif will take...
A man comforts a relative mourning lawyer Kausar Saqlain and his two sons who were killed by gunmen in Karachi yesterday. KARACHI: Attackers...
ISLAMABAD: A British Pakistani has become the youngest ever Pakistani mayor in Britain after being elected as Mayor for the London Borough of...
VATICAN CITY: A top Vatican official has said around 100,000 Christians are killed every year for reasons linked to their faith and pointed...
BAGHDAD: Bombings and shootings in Iraq on Tuesday killed 16 people, many of them security forces members, officials said, the latest in a...
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait National Petroleum Co said Tuesday it has signed a $516 million contract with South Korean Daelim Industrial for the repair...
PARIS , France: Laboratory tests have revealed resistance in some H7N9 bird flu patients to the only available treatment, said virologists who unveiled...
