Moscow: Russia has accused Ukraine of abducting two Russian servicemen on the annexed Crimea peninsula, but Kiev said it had merely detained two...
Moscow: Russia has accused Ukraine of abducting two Russian servicemen on the annexed Crimea peninsula, but Kiev said it had merely detained two...
Bangkok: Thailand's military leaders Tuesday announced $358 million in cash handouts for some of the kingdom's poorest people, a surprise giveaway from a...
Cairo: An Egyptian appeals court on Tuesday quashed one of two life sentences handed down against ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi since his...
Seoul: South Korea's Cabinet on Tuesday approved a bill that would allow the opposition parties to pick candidates for an independent counsel to...
Bangui, Central African Republic: The UN peacekeeping force in Central African Republic (CAR) said Tuesday one of its bases had come under fire...
LONDON: Any moves by Donald Trump to ban Muslims from entering the United States or bring back waterboarding to interrogate suspects could have...
Sydney: Australian detectives have been left with a cheeky clue after discovering that a large print on a glass door at a crime...
ZURICH: Talks in Switzerland on reuniting the divided island of Cyprus have failed to strike a deal, the United Nations said on Tuesday....
London: Wind and rain will continue to batter parts of England and Wales in the wake of Storm Angus, which has caused flash...
A driver was arrested on Monday over a school bus crash that killed six children and sent nearly two dozen to a hospital...
ANKARA: Turkey dismissed close to 15,000 more civil servants, military officials, police and others and shut down more than 500 institutions and news...
TOKYO: A powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan early on Tuesday, briefly disrupting cooling functions at a nuclear plant and generating a small tsunami...
Mandalay, Myanmar: More than a century after the British expelled Myanmar's last king, descendants held an emotional ceremony in Mandalay's Golden Palace on...
Istanbul: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday urged the European Union and West to step up backing of Ankara’s fight against Kurdish militants,...
Aleppo, Syria: Syrian government forces advanced quickly inside rebel-held east Aleppo on Monday, as the UN raised the alarm for nearly one million...
Baghdad: The Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq Al Awsat said yesterday it fired its Baghdad correspondent, a day after printing controversial accusations wrongly attributed to...
Cairo: Egypt’s public prosecutor has brought before the military judiciary 292 suspected Islamic State militants, some of whom are accused of plotting to...
