KUWAIT CITY: A Gulf rights group has strongly condemned heavy jail terms against two prominent Saudi rights activists and called on the authorities...
KUWAIT CITY: A Gulf rights group has strongly condemned heavy jail terms against two prominent Saudi rights activists and called on the authorities...
Members of the military take over security after the withdrawal of police in Port Said, 170km northeast of Cairo, yesterday. CAIRO: Egypt’s interior...
BEIRUT: Rebel groups, including the jihadist Al Nusra Front, have set up a religious council to administer affairs in the east of Syria...
TRIPOLI:Libya’s General National Congress has temporarily suspended its sessions due to security concerns after a violent protest that left its members barricaded in...
TEHRAN: An Iranian semi-official news agency reported that an explosion had injured several people in a port in the south of the country....
STANLEY: Residents of the Falkland Islands started voting yesterday in a sovereignty referendum that seeks to counter Argentina’s increasingly assertive claim over the...
BRIGHTON: Britain’s junior coalition partners, struggling with falling poll ratings, promised voters yesterday that winning a vote for a parliamentary seat was proof...
WASHINGTON: A decision to scrap a post-9/11 ban on pocket knives being carried by passengers on US aircraft has triggered an angry backlash...
LONDON: In his first major political move since taking office, the spiritual leader of the world’s Anglicans attacked Britain’s government over welfare yesterday,...
CARACAS: Venezuela’s charged election race kicked off yesterday with throngs attending mass at the coffin of deceased leader Hugo Chavez and vowing to...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama poked fun at himself, Bob Woodward and Washington reporters at a dinner that brought together the country’s press...
China’s Communist Party Chief Xi Jinping reads as attendants serve tea at the Great Hall of the People during the third plenary session...
SEOUL: Two women were killed and 17 injured yesterday in mountain fires that destroyed dozens of houses in South Korea as thousands of...
TOKYO: A huge dust storm hit Tokyo yesterday, blanketing the city with brown dust that darkened the skies and rapidly transformed what had...
KATHMANDU: Nepalese police arrested 11 people in Kathmandu on suspicion of “anti-China activities” yesterday morning, the anniversary of the 1959 rebellion against China’s...
KATHMANDU: Nepalese police arrested 11 people in Kathmandu on suspicion of “anti-China activities” yesterday morning, the anniversary of the 1959 rebellion against China’s...
YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi was re-elected as Myanmar opposition chief yesterday at a landmark congress that disappointed some members hoping for new...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith heads the Catholic church in a predominantly Buddhist nation, but a stint at the Vatican has made...
