London: British Prime Minister Theresa May (pictured) will use a major speech on Brexit next week to call on Britons to reject the...
Sao Paulo: The latest prison riot in northern Brazil is thought to have killed more than 30 people, police said yesterday, tripling the...
Caracas: His finger on a rifle trigger and wearing an olive green hat, President Nicolas Maduro yesterday oversaw military exercises in crisis-wrought Venezuela,...
Washington: Vice President-elect Mike Pence said yesterday that he was disappointed by a black civil rights activist and politician’s questioning of Donald Trump’s...
Santiago: Ricardo Lagos, a leading opponent of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet who later went on to serve as president from 2000 to...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi special forces swept through the campus of Mosul University to clear it of any remaining Islamic State militants after taking full...
Bangkok: Thailand faces more hardship from unseasonable floods that have killed 40 people in its south, with more rain expected in the major...
San Francisco: Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, carving a careful diplomatic path on her stopovers in the United States, visited the headquarters of micro-messaging...
Seoul: The number of unemployed people in South Korea surpassed the one million mark in 2016, Statistics Korea said yesterday. It is the...
Dubai: Bahrain yesterday executed three men convicted of killing three policemen in a 2014 bomb attack, the first such executions in over two...
Seoul: Former UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, who is expected to run for president of South Korea, said yesterday it is appropriate for the...
Taipei: Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said yesterday her trip to Central American allies and transit stops in the United States had elevated the...
Seoul: South Korean investigators said yesterday they will come to a decision within 24 hours on whether to arrest Samsung Vice-Chairman Lee Jae-yong....
Tokyo: Japan's space agency yesterday aborted a mission to use a mini-rocket to send a satellite into orbit after the spacecraft stopped sending...
Kabul:The Afghan Eduction Ministry yesterday said the Islamic State terror group has kidnapped 14 teachers from Nangarhar province. The ministry said the incident...
Jalalabad: At least seven civilians, including a women and three children, were killed when their truck hit a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan...
Islamabad: At least 135 Pakistani fishermen are currently detained in Indian jails, the country’s Foreign Office said in its report to the Supreme...
