CAIRO: Egypt’s Interior Ministry told police in the Sinai peninsula to raise a state of emergency after obtaining intelligence that jihadists might attack...
CAIRO: Egypt’s Interior Ministry told police in the Sinai peninsula to raise a state of emergency after obtaining intelligence that jihadists might attack...
RIYADH: A Saudi Arabian court sentenced two prominent political and human rights activists yesterday to at least 10 years in prison for offences...
DOHA: Plans to have a unified insurance policy for automobiles in the GCC region are in the pipeline and if things go as...
H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser attends the first international conference of the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE). The conference...
DOHA: Dubai police chief Dahi Khalfan has said he got at least 2,500 threatening phone calls from the Muslim Brotherhood after Mohammed Mursi...
United Nations peacekeepers sit in a bus leaving Jordanian army headquarters after a press conference following their release on the Syria-Jordan border, in...
A man tries to extinguish a fire at the headquarters of the Egyptian Soccer Association, set ablaze by people protesting a court verdict...
US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel walks to his military aircraft after visiting members of the 101st Airborne Division at Jalalabad Airfield in...
Anti-nuclear protesters hold placards in Tokyo yesterday. Thousands of demonstrators rallied ahead of the second anniversary of the March 11, 2011 tsunami that...
SEOUL/BEIJING: North Korea yesterday formally rejected a UN Security Council resolution that demands an end to its nuclear arms programme, as China called...
YANGON: Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday called for her once-banned party to unify amid concerns that internal squabbles could undermine...
FELDA SAHABAT: Malaysian police said yesterday they had arrested 79 people in Sabah state on the island of Borneo as skirmishes to end...
SUVA: Fiji’s military leader has vowed to stick by his men, dismissing international concerns about an online video that appears to show two...
BEIJING: China’s new president will pay a state visit to Russia and three African countries, the foreign minister said yesterday, with Beijing looking...
Seoul: Nine South Korean fishermen died and another was reported missing after their boat caught fire in frigid waters off the country’s west...
CAIRO: The headquarters of the Egyptian Football Association were set ablaze on Saturday, minutes after a police officers' club was torched following sentencing...
Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada is seen arriving back at his home after being released on bail, in London in this November 13,...
