ROME: Rescuers saved around 750 migrants from rubber and wooden boats in the central Mediterranean but recovered five dead bodies during the operations,...
ROME: Rescuers saved around 750 migrants from rubber and wooden boats in the central Mediterranean but recovered five dead bodies during the operations,...
Johannesburg: A freelance South African photojournalist has been kidnapped at gunpoint in northwestern Syria, near the Turkish border, his family and an aid...
SHANGHAI: China and Vietnam pledged on Saturday to manage their differences and safeguard peace in the South China Sea, in a joint communique...
IDLIB, Syria: At least 10 civilians were killed and another 21 injured Saturday by a regime airstrike in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, a...
MOSUL, Iraq: Iraqi forces have retaken the eastern edges of three of Mosul's five bridges, according to a senior Iraqi officer overseeing the...
BEIRUT: Islamic State militants launched their biggest attack in months on government-held areas of the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor on Saturday, leaving...
Riyadh: The Saudi Royal Court announced today that Prince Mohammed bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has passed away. The court said in...
New York: Although US President Barack Obama is set to leave office in less than a week, his signature will stand testimony on...
Baghdad: Since the start of the Iraqi military operation to retake Mosul in October last year, more than 144,500 people have been displaced...
Istanbul: Turkey has arrested two Chinese nationals of Uighur origin in connection with a mass shooting in a nightclub in Istanbul on New...
Suva, Fiji: A shallow 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fiji on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no...
BAGHDAD (AA): Iraqi forces on Friday seized a government complex -- and other sites -- in eastern Mosul following clashes with Islamic State...
Dhaka: Bangladeshi police Saturday said they have arrested an Islamist extremist accused of being one of the "masterminds" of last year's deadly siege...
Carlini Base, Antarctica: Vast icy rock peaks tower above Argentina's Carlini research base in Antarctica. But scientists who have worked here for decades...
SHANGHAI: A man in China's central Henan province has become the latest person reported to have died this winter from H7N9 bird flu,...
United Nations, United States: US Ambassador Samantha Power on Friday warned that cutting US funding to the United Nations would be "extremely detrimental"...
London: The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator has told colleagues that they need to strike a "special" deal with Britain's finance sector in...
Abidjan: Ivory Coast's government and rebel troops reached a deal at talks in second city Bouake late Friday, government sources said, even as...
