ISLAMABAD: Unidentified gunmen yesterday shot dead a key local political leader in Pakistan’s restive north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, police officials said. Assailants...
ISLAMABAD: Unidentified gunmen yesterday shot dead a key local political leader in Pakistan’s restive north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, police officials said. Assailants...
VIENTIANE: The Philippines yesterday pushed its call for an international solution to overlapping claims in the South China Sea at an Asia-Europe summit,...
SEOUL: South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak’s wife is to be questioned as part of a probe into a presidential retirement home deal that...
Hong Kong: China’s ruling Communist Party has launched an inquiry into the alleged wealth of Premier Wen Jiabao’s family at his own request,...
YOKOHAMA: The use of “secrecy, censorship and bullying” to silence dissenting voices in China must end under the country’s incoming leader, the Dalai...
BEIJING: Two elderly Japanese tourists died and another was missing after being trapped in sudden heavy snowstorms during a visit to the Great...
VIENTIANE: Laos yesterday said it would start construction of a controversial multibillion dollar dam this week, after adapting the design to calm environmental...
MANILA: Philippine police have identified about 60 suspected “private armies” that could use violence to influence national elections next year, an official said...
Election volunteers Frank Roth (right) and Dave Trout (left) count voting machines that will be sent out to precincts in Charlotte, North Carolina,...
ABOARD THE ROMNEY CAMPAIGN PLANE: Mitt Romney launched a final full day of campaigning yesterday in swing state Florida, but his team did...
WASHINGTON: New Jersey’s decision to allow voters displaced by superstorm Sandy to cast ballots by email has prompted a flood of warnings over...
WASHINGTON: The devastating storm that slammed into the US East Coast last week could send winds of uncertainty through today’s presidential election, narrowing...
LONDON: US President Barack Obama will win the popular vote by two percent in today’s election while beating Republican opponent Mitt Romney in...
NEW YORK: A week after superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc on New York City and the surrounding area, schools reopened yesterday and millions of...
Former steel factory worker Zarko Hrgic, 57, sits in his home, a cave near Babina river in Babino village, near the central Bosnian...
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right coalition reached agreement yesterday on contentious social welfare issues that it hopes will bolster its support in...
LONDON: Finance minister George Osborne is the public figure that most often appears in British nightmares, a recent study has found. Ruling Conservative...
KIEV: Ukraine’s opposition demanded a recount or a fresh vote in a dozen hotly contested constituencies yesterday, stepping up their campaign against a...