Dubai: Kuwait’s Warba Bank has mandated nine banks to arrange an Islamic bond, or sukuk, of up to $250m that will boost its...
Dubai: Kuwait’s Warba Bank has mandated nine banks to arrange an Islamic bond, or sukuk, of up to $250m that will boost its...
Colombo: Sri Lanka said Tuesday it was investigating a former navy sailor convicted of attempting to assassinate India's Rajiv Gandhi nearly three decades...
In Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political base of Varanasi, Hinduism’s holiest city, weaver Zainul Abedin stares at the uneven mud floor of his...
As India continues its scorched-earth campaign against cash, the question baffling many analysts is why a country so unfamiliar with digital payments would...
Istanbul: The killing of the Russian ambassador to Ankara has exposed deep divisions in policy and hostility to Moscow among some in Turkish...
Istanbul: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday opened the first ever road tunnel underneath the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul, the latest project in...
Amman: Gunmen on Tuesday killed a Jordanian policeman in a shootout in the city of Karak where a weekend attack claimed by the...
Lima: At least 12 police officers were killed Tuesday in Peru when the bus transporting them plunged off a cliff, falling some 700...
JOHANNESBURG: Police in South Africa’s capital Pretoria have fired rubber bullets to disperse about 400 Congolese protesters who had gathered outside their embassy...
ANKARA: The assassination of Moscow’s ambassador to Ankara, Andrey Karlov, was a “provocation” against “Turkish-Russian relations”, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday....
BEIRUT: Newly-appointed Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri formally assumed his prime ministerial responsibilities Tuesday. At a ceremony in Beirut, Hariri officially received his...
MOSCOW: Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said Tuesday that Russia, Iran and Turkey were "ready" to be guarantors in Syria. "Russia, Iran and...
ANKARA: A total of 37,500 Syrian civilians have so far been evacuated from the former opposition stronghold of eastern Aleppo, Turkey's Foreign Minister...
Amman: The Islamic State jihadist group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for an attack at a popular tourist destination in Jordan that killed 10...
Berlin: A sudden bang -- and then everything went dark. Survivors of the carnage caused when a lorry ploughed into a Berlin Christmas...
Paris: France is under a "high level of threat" from terror attack but already has a large-scale security operation in place, President Francois...
Aleppo, Syria: Syria's army on Tuesday urged the last remaining rebels and civilians to leave the bombed-out eastern quarters of Aleppo as it...
Cairo: A suspected leader of a newly-emerged militant group, the Hassam Movement, and a policeman were killed during a police raid in the...
