KABUL: Civilian casualties in Afghanistan rose by almost 30 percent in the first three months of 2013, a UN envoy has said, describing...
KABUL: Civilian casualties in Afghanistan rose by almost 30 percent in the first three months of 2013, a UN envoy has said, describing...
BRUSSELS: Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan’s army chief and a foreign ministry official held “productive” talks yesterday on easing tensions between the...
Kabul: About four children of one family were killed and another injured in a landmine in the remote Maroof District of Kandahar Province,...
People rescue garment workers trapped under the rubble at the Rana Plaza building after it collapsed, in Savar, 30km outside Dhaka, yesterday. SAVAR:...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka had hoped to showcase its post-war revival at this year’s Commonwealth summit, but observers say its biggest international event in...
BEIJING: Twenty-one people, including police officers and social workers, were killed in violent clashes in China’s ethnically divided western region of Xinjiang, officials...
manila: The Philip-pines deployed hundreds of extra troops as it vowed yesterday to protect candidates for next month’s mid-term elections after communist guerillas...
SEOUL: South Korea and the United States have agreed on a two-year extension to a civilian nuclear pact that Seoul wants amended to...
A volunteer sorts through donations of food at the Hammersmith and Fulham food bank run by the Trussell Trust in London. LONDON: Britain’s...
WASHINGTON: US lawmakers demanded more answers on the Boston Marathon bombing yesterday, unsatisfied with the FBI reaction to warnings about one suspect and...
WASHINGTON: More than 1,000 US flights were delayed because of air traffic control staff furloughs imposed as part of the so-called sequester budget...
TORONTO: One of two men accused in an alleged Al Qaeda-backed plan to derail a passenger train in Canada appeared in court yesterday...
PARIS: The editor of a French celebrity magazine was placed under formal investigation for breach of privacy over the publication of topless pictures...
WASHINGTON: If they were thinking about getting tattoos, the Obama daughters may want to reconsider. Speaking on NBC’s “Today” show in a segment...
Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny speaks with journalists after arriving in court for a hearing of his case in the provincial northern city...
THE HAGUE: A Dutch businessman who sold Iraq’s former regime chemicals that were used in deadly gas attacks against Kurds in Iraq and...
ROME: Italian President Giorgio Napolitano (pictured) yesterday asked centre-left deputy leader Enrico Letta to form a new government, signalling the end of a...
ROME: As a devastating economic crisis hits ordinary Italians, traditional bakeries in Rome are shutting shop and some are resorting to selling old...
