ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will receive 42m euros in humanitarian aid from the European Commission this year. The aid announced in Brussels is part of...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will receive 42m euros in humanitarian aid from the European Commission this year. The aid announced in Brussels is part of...
ISLAMABAD: As many as 114 political parties in Pakistan out of total 216, including five mainstream parties, Asif Zardari’s PPP, Shujaat Hussain’s PML-Q,...
Paramilitary policemen search for survivors after a landslide hit Zhenxiong county in China’s Yunnan province, yesterday. BEIJING: A landslide killed at least 42...
Believers performing Friday prayers at the World Muslim Congregation at Tongi, on the outskirts of Dhaka. More then one million attended prayers near...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s parliament yesterday voted to impeach Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake after a process criticised by international rights groups as an assault...
BEIJING: Beijing sent fighter jets to the East China Sea after Japanese aircraft followed a Chinese plane in a territorial dispute, the defence...
BANGKOK: At least 600 Rohingya Muslims believed to be illegal migrants from Myanmar have been detained in Thailand after two raids by the...
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s ruling party has blocked an anti-media monopoly bill that could have derailed a deal to put nearly half of the island’s...
Filipino protesters display a mock drone plane during a rally near the US embassy in Manila, yesterday. They denounced the US for violating...
MANILA: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) backpedaled yesterday on its pronouncement that President Benigno S Aquino III is not exempted from the nationwide...
MANILA: President Benigno S Aquino III called for a lasting ceasefire with the leftist New People’s Army (NPA) to lessen the collateral damage...
MANILA: Four foreigners are believed to be among seven people who died yesterday when a fire razed a small hotel near a former...
COTABATO CITY: Personalities who are not from the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)and opposed the botched 2008 memorandum of agreement on ancestral...
STOCKHOLM: A Swedish court jailed a national for eight years on Thursday for paying poor women in the Philippines to rape young kids...
MANILA: About 5,000 people were displaced by floods caused by continuous rains in Mindanao, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said....
A python lies wedged on the wing of a Qantas plane as it flies over Port Moresby, yesterday. SYDNEY: It was not quite...
LONDON: The Shard — western Europe’s tallest skyscraper — opens its viewing platform to the public on February 1, giving unrivalled views over...
PARIS: Getting pruney fingers from soaking in the bath is an evolutionary advantage, for it helps us get a better grip on objects...
