MEXICO CITY: Trapped under tons of rubble and in complete darkness, Diana Pacheco's hopes were fading fast for making it out alive from...
MEXICO CITY: Trapped under tons of rubble and in complete darkness, Diana Pacheco's hopes were fading fast for making it out alive from...
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: The influx of Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh has ground to a virtual halt, officials said Saturday, almost a month after...
Istanbul: A veteran Syrian opposition activist and her journalist daughter were found stabbed to death at their apartment in Istanbul, Turkish media reported...
Erbil, Iraq: Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani on Saturday delayed a scheduled news conference on a controversial independence referendum he has called for...
The former leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Mahdi Akef, has died in a Cairo hospital aged 89. Akef, who headed the Brotherhood as...
Sittwe, Myanmar: Myanmar's army chief on Saturday blamed Rohinyga militants for an explosion outside a mosque in Rakhine state, as a rights group...
LONDON: A British government minister has criticised the London authorities for deciding to strip Uber of its taxi licence, a major setback to...
United Nations, United States: Syria's war has taken a new turn with the expected recapture of Raqa from the Islamic State, but world...
Mexico City: Sergio Lopez spends his days inspecting buildings at risk of collapse in Mexico City following Tuesday's quake. And he still can't...
Tehran: Iran said on Saturday that it had successfully tested a new medium-range missile in defiance of warnings from Washington that it was...
Mexico City: The bodies of eight foreigners have been recovered from the rubble of the quake that struck Mexico City, officials said Friday....
Baghdad: Policeman Ahmad regrets the day he detained a motorist at a checkpoint for possession of a gun without a licence, bringing the...
San Juan: Some 70,000 people were ordered to evacuate their homes Friday after a rain-swollen dam in Puerto Rico failed in the latest...
Istanbul: Twenty-one people drowned and up to 15 more were missing yesterday after a fishing boat carrying migrants sank off Turkey’s Black Sea...
Nairobi: Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta will remain president until a new leader is sworn in, the country’s attorney general said yesterday, seeking to assuage...
Turkey sent a final warning to Iraq’s Kurdish provinces to drop plans for a referendum on independence scheduled for Monday, calling the vote...
UNITED NATIONS: Russia urged “hot heads” to calm down on Friday as the United States admitted it felt “challenged” by North Korea’s warning...
ERBIL: Iraqi Kurds are expected to vote for independence in a referendum on Monday that neighbouring countries and Western powers fear could break...
