MANAMA: International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA), the country's biggest lender, plans to raise $150 million through an Islamic syndicated loan early next year...
MANAMA: International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA), the country's biggest lender, plans to raise $150 million through an Islamic syndicated loan early next year...
FRANKFURT: German Environment Minister Peter Altmaier on Sunday hailed a new set of agreements combatting climate change, a day after a UN conference...
DHAKA: Bangladesh on Sunday invited bids from international companies to explore offshore oil and gas reserves, an official said, as the fast-growing economy...
JUBA, South Sudan: At least 10 people have been killed after South Sudanese troops fired on demonstrators angry at officials moving the seat...
Afghan labourers work at a peanut factory in Jalalabad yesterday.
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said yesterday a suicide attack that wounded the country’s spy chief was planned in neighbouring Pakistan, and added...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is “the most powerful man in an unstable country; Pakistan’s de facto leader...
DUBAI: A US air strike in Pakistan has killed an Al Qaeda leader, Khaled bin Abdel Rahman Al Hussainan, while he was having...
KABUL: Afghanistan may consider giving conditional immunity from local prosecution for US troops remaining in the country after Nato forces withdraw in 2014,...
WASHINGTON: The US military is facing fresh questions over its targeting policy in Afghanistan after a senior army officer suggested that troops were...
A member of a church group distributes food to displaced victims of Typhoon Bopha at an evacuation centre in the town of Maparat...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s chief justice has been found guilty on three impeachment charges by a parliamentary panel, a government official said yesterday, in...
YANGON: Myanmar’s government has apologised to senior Buddhist clerics over injuries sustained by monks in a police crackdown on a rally at a...
BEIJING: Police in a south China city bordering Vietnam clashed with thousands of rioters who were protesting excessive brutality meted out to a...
TOKYO: A Japanese government minister has come under fire from the opposition for saying North Korea should “waste no time” in holding its...
BELFAST: Around 2,000 pro-British loyalists rallied in central Belfast yesterday for the return of the British flag to the roof of city hall...
JOHANNESBURG: Nelson Mandela has been admitted to a hospital for tests “consistent with his old age” and is doing well, the office of...
LONDON/PERTH: The London hospital that treated Prince William’s pregnant wife Kate condemned yesterday an Australian radio station that made a prank call seeking...
