LAHORE: Sixteen children and a teacher were killed when their school bus caught fire in central Pakistan yesterday, police said. Seven other children...
LAHORE: Sixteen children and a teacher were killed when their school bus caught fire in central Pakistan yesterday, police said. Seven other children...
Policemen carry the coffin of one of the seven colleagues killed in Kohat yesterday. PESHAWAR: Gunmen killed seven police in an ambush attack...
KABUL: The Afghan government yesterday lauded its security forces for beating back a Taliban assault on central Kabul that left one policeman, two...
ISLAMABAD: Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s upcoming prime minister, will undertake whirlwind visit of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and China next month after assuming the office...
LAHORE: Load shedding-stricken people in Punjab have called for an early formation of the new federal and provincial government of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz,...
People wave flags as they gather at a stadium during a rally to protest against the results of the country’s 13th general election...
MANILA: Despite China’s latest incursion into Philippine waters and other acts of provocation, Manila is exercising maximum restraint and is sticking to diplomacy...
TAIPEI: Taiwan yesterday protested to the Philippines for sending naval ships to disputed South China Sea islands in the latest diplomatic spat between...
ZAMBOANGA: Twelve people were killed in the Philippines yesterday as troops clashed with a militant group blamed for the country’s deadliest terror attacks,...
YANGON: Japan’s premier yesterday pledged “all possible assistance” to kick-start Myanmar’s ailing economy, hailing a major industrial zone near Yangon as a symbol...
COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan Buddhist monk died yesterday of severe burns a day after setting himself on fire to protest the slaughter of...
SEOUL: South Korea’s press yesterday expressed scepticism over an apparent offer by North Korea that it was willing to return to six-party nuclear...
MANILA: Authorities intercepted yesterday afternoon six anti-tank improvised explosive devices (IED) from a suspected member of the leftist New People’s Army (NPA) in...
Dancers perform during a summit marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the African Union, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, yesterday. ADDIS ABABA:...
CANNES: A documentary using small clay figures to tell the story of how Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh’s family perished under the Khmer Rouge...
LONDON: Britain’s intelligence agencies came under fresh scrutiny yesterday following claims that MI5 had tried to recruit one of two Islamists accused of...
PARIS: A French soldier patrolling a business area of western Paris was stabbed in the neck yesterday by a man who quickly fled...
New York: Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel called sexual assault a “scourge” yesterday as he addressed graduates of the US Military Academy at West...
