SEOUL: A new South Korea-US pact providing for a joint military response even to low-level provocation by North Korea offers an added deterrent...
SEOUL: A new South Korea-US pact providing for a joint military response even to low-level provocation by North Korea offers an added deterrent...
Venezuelan presidential candidate Henrique Capriles speaking to his followers under rain during an electoral campaign at Bolivar Square, Venezuela. CARACAS: Henrique Capriles lost...
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (left) and National Rifle Association head Wayne LaPierre. WASHINGTON: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg predicted yesterday that...
LONDON: British police yesterday said they had found no evidence so far that anyone else was involved in the death of exiled oligarch...
TORONTO: Canadian police said that they had identified a second Canadian among the dead suspects in a January attack and hostage-taking at an...
WASHINGTON: Eight months before US President Barack Obama’s healthcare law goes prime time, a confederation of industry and business groups is ramping up...
A still image taken from video shows a man kicking a Seleka rebel suspect (second left) in Begoua, 17km from capital Bangui, yesterday. ...
BAMAKO: Clashes between the Malian army and Islamists killed seven people including a soldier and two civilians yesterday in northern Mali’s largest city,...
PARIS: Nicolas Sarkozy’s lawyer yesterday launched a fresh salvo against the judge who charged the former president with taking financial advantage of France’s...
KANO: One hundred twenty-seven prison inmates escaped when gunmen attacked their jailhouse in Nigeria’s eastern Adamawa state, a prison chief said yesterday. “A...
VATICAN CITY: The new Pope began Holy Week yesterday with a sermon invoking the folk wisdom of his grandmother, further emphasising a new-look...
UN special adviser on Myanmar Vijay Nambiar (left) speaks to displaced Muslims at a relief camp in Meiktila, central Myanmar, yesterday. Meiktila, Myanmar:...
BEIJING: Glamorous new first lady Peng Liyuan (pictured above) has emerged as Chinese diplomacy’s latest star, charming audiences and cutting a very different...
Students dance as they celebrate the Holi Festival at a mall in Manila yesterday. It is one of the major festivals in India,...
PAGADIAN, Philippines: An Australian ex-soldier just freed by Philippine extremists has recounted how his kidnappers fired shots to stop him escaping during his...
MANILA: Philippines is putting together the proposed national budget for 2014, which it estimates would be about P2.27 trillion. Next year’s budget would...
Colombo: The Ministry of External Affairs has alerted Sri Lankan missions overseas against a “sinister move by LTTE sympathisers,” a newspaper reported yesterday....
MAE SURIN, Thailand: Rescue workers yesterday ended the search for victims of a blaze that tore through a Myanmar refugee camp in northern...
