Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (centre) attends the Senior Officials Meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan, yesterday. Kabul: Afghanistan’s president implored international donors for their continued...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (centre) attends the Senior Officials Meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan, yesterday. Kabul: Afghanistan’s president implored international donors for their continued...
Dhaka: Nervous, pale and sleep deprived, Bangladesh blogger Shammi Haque describes living in constant fear after four of her colleagues were hacked to...
Bangkok: A Thai court last Friday sentenced four men to life imprisonment over the death of three people, including two children, in a...
Oslo: Former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden yesterday criticised Russia — the country that has granted him asylum — calling its crackdown on...
Tehran: Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian (pictured) has said she will donate part of a ¤100,000 ($112,000) Dutch award to charity, including Syrian and...
RABAT: Morocco’s ruling Islamist party won most of the country’s key cities during Friday’s local elections, further expanding its reach after four years...
Jerusalem: Opposition Labour party leader Isaac Herzog called yesterday for Israel to take in Syrian refugees, recalling the plight of Jews who sought...
A Spanish Civil Guard officer guards a Moroccan girl after she was arrested at her residence for alleged connection with jihadist terror activities,...
Devotees wait in a queue to offer prayers on the occasion of Janmashtami festival at Birla Temple in New Delhi, yesterday. New Delhi:...
A boy rides a motorcycle through a damaged street in old Aleppo, Syria, yesterday. Beirut: A battle between Islamic State group jihadists and...
Beirut: At least six regime security personnel were killed in unrest in the heartland of Syria’s Druze minority after the assassination of an...
MOGADISHU: Islamist militants Al Shabaab seized control of two towns over two days in southern Somalia and attacked two African Union (AU) convoys...
ATHENS: A newborn migrant boy was found dead early on Saturday after his parents reached the steep shores of the Greek island of...
ANKARA: A Turkish soldier who went missing this week on the border with Syrian territory controlled by Islamic State has been seen in...
Smoke billows from the military academy during a Saudi-led air strike in Yemen's capital Sana'a on September 2, 2015. KHOBAR (Saudi Arabia): Ten...
The final Paris climate deal will likely consist of two parts -- the first a "legal instrument" outlining core principles and an annex...
A navjote ceremony in progress KARACHI: For more than 1,000 years, Parsis have thrived in South Asia but an ageing population and emigration...
NEW YORK: Two Pakistani brothers were extradited to New York on Friday to face charges that they conspired to smuggle heroin into America...
