KABUL, Afghanistan: The number of refugees returning to their war-ravaged homes in Afghanistan, mostly from neighboring Pakistan, has reached one million, an Afghan...
KABUL, Afghanistan: The number of refugees returning to their war-ravaged homes in Afghanistan, mostly from neighboring Pakistan, has reached one million, an Afghan...
Beirut: More than 1,000 people were evacuated from the last rebel-held pocket of Syria's Aleppo early on Monday after hours of delay, a...
MOSCOW: The Russian Defence Ministry said on Monday that one of its planes had crashed in northeast Siberia, but that nobody had been...
Paris: At least 57 journalists have been killed around the world in 2016 while doing their job, Reporters Without Borders said on Monday....
Sydney: France and Australia will sign a multi-billion dollar deal -- which Paris has billed as the "contract of the century" -- for...
Seoul: The woman at the centre of a corruption scandal that triggered the biggest political crisis for a generation in South Korea appeared...
Gunmen assaulted Jordanian police in a series of attacks Sunday, including at a Crusader castle popular with tourists, killing seven officers, two local...
Kinshasa: Security forces patrolled the tense streets of Kinshasa yesterday after the suspension of last-ditch talks to find a peaceful way out of...
Seoul: The jailed confidante of disgraced South Korean President Park Geun-hye (pictured) begins a trial today that will explore a scandal that led...
BEIRUT: France struck a compromise Sunday with Russia on a U.N. resolution that it said would prevent "mass atrocities" in besieged areas of...
Ouinhi: Daniel Aboko proudly shows off the 11 hectares of paddy fields he shares with other farmers —a small spread that produces a...
Abidjan: Ivory Coast voted yesterday in elections that President Alassane Ouattara hopes will strengthen his parliamentary majority to help keep the world's top...
Dhaka: Police in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka yesterday stopped thousands of Islamists from marching to the border with Myanmar to protest at a...
Jakarta: An Indonesian military transport plane crashed in bad weather yesterday in the country's easternmost province of Papua, killing all 13 people on...
Warsaw: Poland’s ruling Law & Justice party promised to rework plans for media coverage in parliament, taking a step back in the biggest...
Jammu/Srinagar: The ear 2016 began on a politically ominous note for Jammu and Kashmir as Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed passed away after...
Caracas: With protests rocking his unpopular government, embattled President Nicolas Maduro delayed until January 2 taking Venezuela’s highest denomination bill out of circulation....
London: Thousands gathered across London yesterday to protest violence against civilians in Syria’s Aleppo. In central London, protestors marched from Marble Arch to...
