NEW DELHI: India will more than double maternity leave, allow work from home and require employers to have crèches to improve maternal and...
NEW DELHI: India will more than double maternity leave, allow work from home and require employers to have crèches to improve maternal and...
SEOUL: South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed President Park Geun-hye from office on Friday over a graft scandal involving the country’s conglomerates at a...
TEL AVIV, Israel: Israel's powerful transportation and intelligence minister says he is pushing forward with a proposal to build an artificial island with...
GAZA CITY, Palestine: Palestinians on Thursday protested in the Gaza Strip to condemn this week’s Knesset vote in which Israeli MPs approved a...
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday accused the CIA of "devastating incompetence" for failing to protect its hacking secrets and said he...
Caracas: The garbage truck brakes and desperate teen Rebeca Leon runs up to root hungrily through the bin bags. Venezuela is rich in...
BEIRUT: U.S.-backed Syrian forces said on Thursday they were closing in on Islamic State-held Raqqa and expected to reach the city outskirts in...
Mosul, Iraq: Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is reported to have abandoned Mosul, leaving local commanders behind to lead the battle...
NEW YORK: A U.S. government weather forecaster on Thursday said La Niña conditions have disappeared and projected the possibility of El Niño developing...
London: British MPs will meet on Monday to discuss amendments made to a bill empowering Prime Minister Theresa May to trigger Brexit, with...
Beijing: More than 20,000 people from Myanmar have flooded into border camps in neighbouring China, seeking refuge from bitter fighting between ethnic groups...
CAIRO: A senior police officer was killed late Wednesday in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula, according to a statement issued by the Interior Ministry....
SALADIN, Iraq: At least 23 people were killed and another 20 injured when two blasts tore through a wedding in Iraq’s Saladin province...
BAGHDAD: Tunisian Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui on Wednesday visited Baghdad to discuss regional developments -- especially the fight against terrorism -- with Iraqi...
ANKARA: The Chief Public Prosecutor's Office in Ankara opened a case against 156 Turkish military academy students and eight high-ranking officials Wednesday, a...
BINGOL, Turkey: A Turkish soldier was martyred during an ongoing operation against the PKK terrorist group in southeastern Diyarbakir province Wednesday, according to...
RAMALLAH, Palestine: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday met with U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson at Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank...
ISTANBUL: Lebanon’s cabinet on Wednesday appointed Joseph Aoun as commander of Lebanon’s armed forces after promoting him to the rank of general, according...
