DUSHANBE, Tajikistan: Tajikistan sentenced to 26 years in prison a man convicted of murdering the brother-in-law of President Emomali Rakhmon, sources in the...
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan: Tajikistan sentenced to 26 years in prison a man convicted of murdering the brother-in-law of President Emomali Rakhmon, sources in the...
PESHAWAR: A girls’ primary school has been blown up on Saturday in the capital city of Pakistan’s northwest province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. No casualties...
ALGIERS: The field commander of the Islamist group that attacked a gas plant in the Algerian desert this week and seized many hostages...
BAMAKO: West African leaders and France were poised to meet Saturday at an emergency summit in Ivory Coast to fast track the deployment...
BEIRUT: Egypt government unlawfully expelled two Syrian refugees back to the war-ravaged country last week, and two Palestinians from Syria now risk being...
NEW DELHI: Rape cases in New Delhi jumped 23 percent in 2012 from a year earlier, according to official figures, highlighting rising crime...
ADEN: Gunmen in southeast Yemen have blown up an oil pipeline that transports some 8,000 barrels per day to export terminals on the...
LOS ANGELES: Shamed cyclist Lance Armstrong wants to return to competitive sport, but says the driving force behind his belated doping confession was...
WASHINGTON: Japan's foreign minister said Friday his country's new government would join a treaty on child abductions, addressing one of the few rifts...
BEAUVAIS, France: About 100 passengers were stranded at Beauvais airport north of Paris on Saturday after Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair cancelled their flight...
MANILA: A Philippine worker taken hostage by Islamist militants at a remote Algerian gas field recounted on local television Saturday how he escaped...
Kashmiri youth throw snow balls during a snowfall in Srinagar yesterday. A cold wave tightened its grip on Jammu and Kashmir with most...
NEW DELHI: India has jurisdiction to try two Italian marines charged with killing two fishermen, the Supreme Court said in a long-awaited ruling...
New Delhi/Jaipur: India yesterday welcomed the “positive statements” coming from Pakistan on talks to defuse tensions and said the border flare-ups of the...
NEW DELHI: India has issued new rules barring foreign gay couples and single people from using surrogate mothers to become parents, drawing sharp...
Raipur: An Indian Air Force helicopter had to make an emergency landing at a forested location in Chhattisgarh last evening after Maoist rebels...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday issued a notice to the central government on a petition seeking that the juvenile accused in the...
KARACHI: Shops, businesses and schools shut across Pakistan’s financial capital Karachi yesterday, as the city braced for further unrest following the funeral of...