Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki (right), shaking hands with Prime Minister-designate Ali Larayedh, in Tunis, yesterday. TUNIS: Ali Larayedh, the Islamist politician and interior...
Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki (right), shaking hands with Prime Minister-designate Ali Larayedh, in Tunis, yesterday. TUNIS: Ali Larayedh, the Islamist politician and interior...
Car rental companies have sprouted in Qatar, but those in the trade of renting out wheels for nimble movement in a country with...
TUNIS: Tunisia's ruling Islamist Ennahda party has chosen Interior Minister Ali Larayedh as its candidate to replace Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, who resigned...
DHAKA: Bangladesh police fired tear gas and rubber bullets Friday in fierce clashes with Islamists demanding the execution of bloggers they accused of...
ABU DHABI: Defence experts who say many lives could have been saved during Arab uprisings if states used proper crowd control measures sought...
PATNA, India: Maoist rebels killed six policemen Friday in a landmine attack in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, the second deadly ambush...
PARIS: European Union Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia warned banks and traders on Friday that any involvement in the Libor rate-rigging scandal would be...
MOSCOW: Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov announced on Friday that his Onexim investment holding group had sold its 37.78-percent stake in the gold producer...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's top judge reprimanded airport security agencies on Friday after a wealthy murder suspect managed to flee abroad, warning that lax procedures...
DOHA: HH the Heir Apparent Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani left here this morning for Riyadh in a one -day fraternal visit...
SEOUL: Kuwait remained South Korea's number-two crude oil supplier in January, with its shipments to the country exceeding 300,000 barrels per day (bpd)...
SAMARRA, Iraq: Gunmen executed seven Iraqi anti-Qaeda militiamen and wounded one at a checkpoint they were manning northeast of Baghdad on Friday, officials...
BEIJING: China's environment ministry has acknowledged the existence of "cancer villages", several years after widespread speculation first began that polluted areas were seeing...
TOKYO: Tokyo stocks ended 0.68 percent higher Friday, reversing earlier losses despite a lack of fresh trading cues and following a tumble in...
SEOUL: A fish-carrying vessel of Cambodian nationality sank off waters in Ulleung Island of South Korea, leaving 12 people missing including nine Chinese...
SEOUL: A South Korean man who embezzled more than $4.0 million dollars and had plastic surgery to evade capture, has been arrested after...
TOKYO: Franco-Japanese automaker Renault-Nissan will invest $320 million to expand a complex in India, a report said Friday, as it looks to cash...
People walk beneath lanterns in Beijing as the city prepares for the traditional Lantern Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the...
