Occupied Jerusalem: Israel will approve thousands of new settlement units in Occupied Jerusalem within two weeks in response to the UN Security Council...
Muscat: Voters in Oman headed to the polls yesterday to choose municipal councillors in only the second local election held in the Gulf...
Cairo: Egypt yesterday sentenced to life two men linked to the Islamic State group for plotting an attack on a Red Sea resort...
Dubai: Iran said yesterday it had negotiated to pay only about half the announced price for 80 new Boeing airliners in an order...
Bossaso: Al Shabaab Islamist militants shot dead a military prosecutor in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region yesterday, witnesses and officials said, the type of...
Jerusalem: Israel yesterday summoned representatives of states that supported a UN resolution demanding it halt settlement activity, while cutting civilian coordination with Palestinians...
Damascus: Residents of the Syrian capital were facing their third consecutive day of water shortages yesterday, with authorities accusing "terrorist groups" of deliberately...
Valletta: The two men accused of using fake weapons to hijack a Libyan plane earlier this week with 117 people on board before...
Yaounde: A suicide bomber in the northern Cameroon town of Mora killed a young student and a woman in an attack on a...
Two people were killed when part of a two-storey building in a police training college collapsed in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos yesterday, the...
Kinshasa: An ethnic Nande militia in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least 13 Hutu civilians yesterday with guns and machetes in...
Heavy snow in northern Japan caused transport chaos over the holiday weekend, with flights and train services cancelled and thousands of passengers forced...
It had become something of a ritual. Every three years, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development would release the results of its...
Over the past two years, this suburb of New Delhi mushroomed into a flourishing enclave of small cellphone manufacturers, attracting tens of thousands...
The United Nations Security Council vote decrying Israel’s policy of settlement expansion is a welcome, but empty, gesture — all but irrelevant to...
Karachi: Frequent denials by the government of Pakistan and the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) did not calm the anxiety in the market...
Islamabad: After an unusually long dry spell after a hot and dry monsoon season this year, Pakistani capital Islamabad is facing a water...
