Yangon: The United Nations yesterday said its human rights envoy for Myanmar will probe escalating violence in the country, including a military crackdown...
Yangon: The United Nations yesterday said its human rights envoy for Myanmar will probe escalating violence in the country, including a military crackdown...
CHENNAI: The death of a housemaid who said she was abused by her New Delhi employers after being lured to the city with...
MUMBAI: India’s western Maharashtra state has passed a law requiring street hawkers to have lived in the state for 15 years before they...
DAR ES SALAAM: More than 800 girls were subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) in northern Tanzania last month, a local government official...
LONDON: Women in the Lake Chad basin have been forced to sell sex to survive due to a conflict that has driven millions...
DAKAR: Half of all Liberians think their West African nation could plunge back into conflict more than a decade after civil war ended,...
Sarajevo: A Bosnian Roma actor who won a Silver Bear acting award at the Berlin film festival in 2013 says he has sold...
LONDON: Thousands of migrants stranded on Greek islands should be quickly transferred to the mainland or other European countries due to cold temperatures...
Paris: It's a New Year's card with a message. Turkey has mailed thousands of diplomats and journalists a fragment of its bomb-damaged parliament,...
Pretoria: South African President Jacob Zuma on Friday held talks in Pretoria with the leader of Western Sahara's Polisario Front independence movement, in...
BEIRUT: US-backed militias in Syria have captured an ancient citadel from Islamic State in a strategically significant advance against the jihadist group in...
ABIDJAN: Gunfire erupted overnight in the central Ivory Coast city of Bouake as demobilised soldiers seized weapons from police stations and took up...
MOSCOW: Russia has begun a drawdown of its military forces in Syria, news agencies quoted the head of the Russian General Staff as...
Beirut: Syrian government aircraft bombed a rebel-held district that is the capital's main water source on Friday as the rival sides traded blame...
Washington: US spy chiefs were set to confront an openly dismissive President-elect Donald Trump Friday with their evidence that Russia mounted an unprecedented...
Kharagpur: In a candid chat with students at his alma mater IIT-Kharagpur yesterday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai recalled his days at the institute,...
BEIRUT: A large explosion rocked a Syrian government-held coastal town on Thursday, killing at least 10 people and wounding dozens — an attack...
Jerusalem: Israeli police yesterday arrested two people for inciting violence on social media against three military judges who convicted a soldier of manslaughter...
