KABUL: Revelations that the CIA handed cash payments to Afghanistan’s presidential office provoked criticism but little surprise from opposition groups and transparency campaigners...
KABUL: Revelations that the CIA handed cash payments to Afghanistan’s presidential office provoked criticism but little surprise from opposition groups and transparency campaigners...
Sarghoda: You can’t lead a revolution and hide behind bullet-proof glass — at least not according to Imran Khan, wildcard contender for power...
South Korean soldiers of an artillery unit check their armaments during a military drill near the demilitarised zone separating North Korea from the...
Thai bomb squad members inspect the wreckage of a motorcycle following a roadside bomb blast targeting a patrolling police truck by suspected separatist...
MANILA: The jargon being used by communist rebels in talks with the government is outdated and Malacanang thinks this is the reason why...
YANGON: Police in central Myanmar fired warning shots to disperse a crowd after a mosque and shops were attacked yesterday, the president’s spokesman...
BANGLADESH: Bangladesh yesterday defended its decision to snub foreign aid after the collapse of a factory complex as anger flared at the recovery...
TOKYO: The governor of Tokyo apologised to the Muslim world yesterday after saying Islamic countries have nothing in common but Allah and “fighting...
The United Arab Emirates President H H Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan accompanied by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, The...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama vowed yesterday to make a new push to close the Guantanamo detention centre, where about 100 inmates are on...
LONDON: Six men pleaded guilty yesterday to plotting to target a rally held by the anti-Islamist English Defence League (EDL) using guns, knives...
LONDON: Britain announced yesterday that it will cut off direct aid to South Africa in 2015, citing its status as Africa’s biggest economy....
Washington: Large majorities in the Muslim world want the Islamic legal and moral code of Shariah as the official law in their countries,...
Dutch King Willem-Alexander (left) and his wife Queen Maxima at the Nieuwe Kerk during the inauguration in Amsterdam yesterday. AMSTERDAM: Willem-Alexander became the...
European Court of Human Rights President Dean Spielmann (right) announcing the judgement in Yulia Tymoshenko vs Ukraine case in Strasbourg, France, yesterday. STRASBOURG,...
REYKJAVIK: The centre-right Progressive Party will form Iceland’s next government, likely to be a coalition with the Independence Party that shares its plans...
BELGRADE: Serbia stepped back from holding a referendum on a landmark accord with its former Kosovo province yesterday, saying it would push on...
MOSCOW: A Russian court sentenced the owner of a Russian nightclub where a fire killed 156 people to nearly 10 years in jail...
