Baghdad---A woman has been named as mayor of Baghdad for the first time, a government spokesman said Saturday, amid widespread corruption and rampant...
Baghdad---A woman has been named as mayor of Baghdad for the first time, a government spokesman said Saturday, amid widespread corruption and rampant...
London---The US and Britain are considering deepening sanctions against Russia due to its "craven behaviour" in Ukraine, Secretary of State John Kerry said...
Kabul---President Barack Obama's new Pentagon chief said Saturday the United States was seriously considering slowing the pace of a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan...
Sameh Fahmi Cairo---An Egyptian court acquitted on Saturday an oil minister who served under ex-strongman Hosni Mubarak in a retrial after a 2012...
Colombo---Sri Lanka's newly-elected government will next month look to win United Nations backing for a domestic probe into alleged war crimes under former...
Nouakchott---A road accident killed 14 soldiers and injured some 20 more in western Mauritania, the military said Saturday. The accident occurred near the...
Miami---Two US astronauts wearing what NASA assured are "healthy" spacesuits prepared for a spacewalk Saturday to lay cable outside the International Space Station,...
Madrid--Jihadists in Libya pose a "direct threat" to Europe, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said in Madrid on Saturday. "I would like to...
Hamad medical Corporation DOHA: Hamad Medical Corporation is embarking on an expansion work for the Al Sadd Children Emergency Center, a senior official...
DOHA: Qatar University Faculty of Medicine will start admitting students for the Fall semester 2015, tomorrow and the admissions will continue up to...
Paris--French President Francois Hollande on Saturday described as a "good compromise" the agreement between Brussels and debt-racked Greece for a four-month extension of...
New Delhi--India vowed the "strictest punishment" Saturday against anyone involved in stealing top-secret documents from the country's petroleum ministry and selling them to...
Singapore--Singapore's founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, 91, is on "mechanical ventilation" at a hospital intensive care unit (ICU) but his condition is...
Donetsk, Ukraine--Pro-Russian rebels said they will swap prisoners with the Ukrainian side Saturday as part of a battered truce that the West hopes...
San Francisco--French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve met Friday with Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter to discuss ways to thwart terrorists from using the...
La Paz--Two men accused of involvement in a suspected foreign mercenary plot to kill Bolivian President Evo Morales were sentenced to nearly six...
Athens--Greece's radical left government was at pains Saturday to put a positive face on an EU compromise deal that is sharply at odds...
Washington--A federal court ordered the Obama administration Friday to stop detaining mothers and children seeking asylum in the United States, a practice implemented...
