By Charu Bahri NEW DELHI: In January, the government asked for public opinion on tougher new laws to curb smoking: To raise the...
By Charu Bahri NEW DELHI: In January, the government asked for public opinion on tougher new laws to curb smoking: To raise the...
File Photo: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak KUALA LUMPUR: The organisers of a massive weekend demonstration demanding the Malaysian prime minister's removal over...
Indonesian President Joko Widodo (R) talks to The International Monetary Fund managing director, Christine Lagarde (L) during a join press conference after their...
Migrants wait to board a train to Germany at the Keleti Railway Station in Budapest, Hungary, September 01, 2015. BUDAPEST: Hundreds of angry...
Trainloads of migrants arrived in Austria and Germany from Hungary on Monday as European Union asylum rules collapsed under the strain of a...
BERLIN: The German government expects that between 240,000 and 460,000 extra people will be entitled to social benefits next year due to the...
Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen is pictured at his residence in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania September 24, 2013 By Daren Butler and Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL: ...
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY: Investors in the company that runs Australia's secretive refugee camps are starting to flex their muscles in a way...
BERLIN: Germany has not suspended European Union rules that oblige migrants to file for asylum in the first EU country they arrive in,...
BEIJING: China on Tuesday rebuffed as "irritating" complaints from Japan about the Beijing visit of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to watch a military...
WASHINGTON: The US State Department released over 4,000 more of the emails former secretary of state Hillary Clinton kept on a private server...
BEIJING: After a series of flight disruptions by angry or unruly passengers, Chinese media on Tuesday revealed a new menace to air travel...
A Yemeni man walks past a destroyed truck following an air-strike by the Saudi-led coalition on the capital Sana’a yesterday. Sana’a: A major...
BANGKOK: The hunt for a group behind the Bangkok shrine blast narrowed Monday as police revealed they had two new suspects -- one...
KATHMANDU: Nepal police fired into a crowd of demonstrators on Monday, killing one person as fresh protests erupted in the country's southern plains...
BY ALISTER DOYLE BONN (Germany): Climate change is bringing small risks that tropical cyclones will form in the Persian Gulf for the first...
Kabul: The Taliban yesterday admitted covering up the death of longtime leader Mullah Omar for two years, saying they had wanted to keep...
(FROM LEFT) Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, Prime Minister Najib Razak and King Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah wave national flags during...
