Rukhsana Bibi cries while sitting next to the body of her daughter Madiha, a worker in an anti-polio campaign, in an ambulance outside...
Rukhsana Bibi cries while sitting next to the body of her daughter Madiha, a worker in an anti-polio campaign, in an ambulance outside...
KABUL: Kabul has laid out an ambitious and contentious five-step plan that could bring hardline Taliban Islamists into government as efforts to broker...
United Nations: The UN Security Council renewed its sanctions regime against the Afghan Taliban on Monday, but adapted it to help those on...
WASHINGTON: Afghanistan is having trouble keeping hard-earned development gains due to looming security challenges when Nato military forces withdraw in 2014, an internal...
Death toll rises to 21 in Pakistan attack PESHAWAR: The death toll from a car bomb attack on a marketplace in northwestern Pakistan...
This combination of two photos shows (left) South Korea’s presidential candidate Park Geun-Hye of the ruling New Frontier Party speaking during her election...
UNITED NATIONS: China is resisting US-led efforts to order new sanctions against North Korea over its rocket launch and the UN Security Council...
MANILA: Philippine Catholic leaders vowed yesterday to overturn a birth control bill after lawmakers passed landmark legislation to make sex education and contraceptives...
BEIJING: China is stepping up a crackdown on “evil” cults, detaining more than 400 members of the “Almighty God” doomsday sect in just...
JAKARTA: Indonesian investigators blamed pilot error yesterday for the May crash of a Sukhoi jet, post-Soviet Russia’s first passenger plane, which slammed into...
DHAKA: Officials in Bangladesh’s ready made garment industry demanded yesterday quick implementation of recommendations in a report which concluded that last month’s deadly...
LONDON: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II attended her first-ever cabinet meeting yesterday, where ministers marked her diamond jubilee by naming a chunk of the...
NEWtown: Most children in Newtown returned to classes yesterday for the first time since last week’s massacre, but survivors of the shooting stayed...
BLOEMFONTEIN: South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) re-elected President Jacob Zuma as its leader yesterday, setting him up for seven more years...
LOS ANGELES: A Florida man who pleaded guilty to hacking into the email accounts of celebrities to gain access to nude photos and...
WASHINGTON: House Speaker John Boehner told Republican colleagues yesterday that he is shifting to a “Plan B,” allowing tax breaks to expire for...
Palestinian women wave their national flag and chant slogans calling for an end to the political division between the Hamas-led leadership and the...
MOSCOW/cairo: Russia may ease restrictions on the Muslim Brotherhood soon to improve relations with Egypt and rebuild influence lost during the Arab Spring...
