ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan has fixed the hearing of presidential reference seeking revisiting of the death sentence given to former Prime...
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan has fixed the hearing of presidential reference seeking revisiting of the death sentence given to former Prime...
\KARACHI: A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden pickup truck into a government paramilitary base in Pakistan’s largest city yesterday, causing a huge blast...
Anti-North Korea activists releasing balloons containing US dollar banknotes, living necessities and leaflets denouncing North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, towards North Korea in...
BEIJING: China’s president yesterday warned the Communist Party faces “collapse” if it fails to clean up corruption and called for an economic revamp...
YANGON: Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has urged the government to send more troops to western Myanmar to restore peace to a...
JAKARTA: An Indonesian man convicted of terror offences escaped from a high-security jail by wearing a burqa to disguise himself as a woman,...
SEOUL: South Korea’s defence minister said yesterday that North Korea has completed preparations for another nuclear test, and would also test-launch long-range missiles...
YANGON: US President Barack Obama plans to visit Myanmar on November 19 and meet both his counterpart, Thein Sein, and Nobel Peace Prize...
KATHMANDU: A Nepalese migrant worker who spent 15 years in a Japanese jail for a murder he did not commit claims he was...
MANILA: President Aquino congratulated US President Barack Obama on his re-election on Wednesday. Aquino cited Obama’s message of hope that had been embraced...
MANILA: Sixteen Filipino-Americans won in the 2012 US elections, a television report said. Among those who won was Robert Scott, who ran for...
MANILA: The Commission of Elections (Comelec) in Dagupan expressed confidence that the government has successfully prevented “flying voters” from registering in multiple places...
MANILA: A radio broadcaster was shot dead in the Philippines yesterday, police said, the seventh journalist to be murdered this year in one...
La Trinidad, Benguet: Cordillera police’s stepped up drive against wanted criminals in the region netted nine suspects in three days. Since Sunday, nine...
CEBU CITY: Anti-narcotics agents arrested a suspected large-scale pusher in Cebu City during a buy-bust operation, seizing an estimated P400,000 worth of methamphetamine...
MANILA: An employee of the Department of Interior and Local Government accused of physically and verbally attacking a traffic constable is facing an...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama, fresh from re-election and facing a new clash with Congress, got back to work yesterday, with an important...
NEW YORK: New York City and much of the US Northeast yesterday dug out from a snowstorm that hammered a region still struggling...