Prague: Czech lawmakers voted Friday to ban smoking in cafes and restaurants starting next May, following in the footsteps of much of Europe,...
Prague: Czech lawmakers voted Friday to ban smoking in cafes and restaurants starting next May, following in the footsteps of much of Europe,...
NEW DELHI: India’s federal police arrested the former head of the air force on Friday in an investigation into allegations of bribery in...
NAIROBI: Kenyan police have detained a British journalist working for The Times and are holding him at the country’s main airport without charge,...
SARAJEVO: The European Union’s senior official for new memberships on Friday expressed concern about rising nationalist rhetoric and divisions in the Balkans as...
DAKAR: Algerian authorities have deported hundreds of West African migrants to Niger this week, trucking them thousands of miles across the desert in...
Hong Kong: Hong Kong's unpopular leader Leung Chun-ying, who has been vilified by critics as a puppet of Beijing, said Friday he would...
Indonesia's president has vowed to rebuild areas devastated by an earthquake that killed more than 100 people and left thousands homeless. Joko Widodo...
BUCHAREST: When Romania’s leftist government collapsed a year ago amid outrage over a deadly nightclub fire, many people spied an opportunity for sweeping...
GOGJALI, Iraq: His black belt and membership card were all that Iraqi judo coach Ali Mahmoud managed to save when Islamic State stormed...
Cairo: Egyptian police yesterday arrested the son of former Islamist president Mohamed Mursi on charges linked to a protest against his father's ouster...
Geneva: The United States and Russia must broker an evacuation from east Aleppo, UN Syria humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said yesterday, as a...
New Delhi: A month after demonetisation led to unprecedented cash crunch in the country, opposition leaders yesterday flayed the note ban but Prime...
Seoul: South Korea's parliament introduced a bill yesterday to impeach President Park Geun-hye, setting the stage for a historic vote to oust the...
Dhaka: Bangladesh's elite security force yesterday arrested five suspected members of a banned Islamist extremist outfit who it said were planning to break...
Beijing: China should "significantly" increase military spending and build more nuclear weapons as a response to US President-elect Donald Trump, an editorial in...
Meureudu: Aftershocks rattled the survivors of a devastating Indonesian earthquake that killed more than 100 people, as officials urgently appealed yesterday for medicine...
Manila: The Philippine defence secretary said yesterday it's highly unlikely his country will allow the US military to use it as a springboard...
Yangon: At least 11 people have died this month in northern Myanmar in escalating clashes between security forces and armed insurgents that have...
