TRIPOLI: Libya’s national congress dismissed the newly elected prime minister yesterday in a vote of no-confidence which underscored the difficulties of forming a...
TRIPOLI: Libya’s national congress dismissed the newly elected prime minister yesterday in a vote of no-confidence which underscored the difficulties of forming a...
KHARTOUM: Thirteen Sudanese military personnel were killed and nine others injured when their transport plane crashed west of Khartoum yesterday on its way...
DUBAI: A Bahraini medic was freed yesterday for time served in jail, just five days after he was sentenced with five colleagues in...
DUBAI: Iran’s parliament voted yesterday to consider suspending plans for further reform of the country’s food and fuel subsidies, with legislators citing economic...
ALEPPO: Syrian mortar fire again struck a Turkish border village yeterday, prompting artillery retaliation for the fourth day as fierce fighting rocked the...
QAH, Syria: Bulldozers level the ground and volunteers brave stormy winds to erect tent by tent what engineers say is the first initiative...
JEDDAH: Saudi cyber activists, disgruntled at rising prices of chicken, have taken to social media networks to call for a boycott of the...
AMMAN: King Abdullah II of Jordan has as part of his reform initiatives set up a constitutional court comprising nine members, according to...
CARACAS: Venezuelans voted yesterday with President Hugo Chavez’s 14-year socialist revolution on the line as the leftist leader faced youthful rival Henrique Capriles...
BIRMINGHAM: Britain will have to keep cutting public spending to reduce the budget deficit, Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday, underlining the government’s...
LOS ANGELES: Liam Neeson thriller “Taken 2” captured the No. 1 spot on movie box office charts over the weekend with a brawny...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama’s campaign intensified attacks yesterday on Mitt Romney’s honesty as it tried to halt the Republican challenger’s momentum after...
Cyclists arrive at the finish of L’Eroica retro cycling race yesterday in Gaiole in Chianti. More than 5,500 competitors from all over the...
PARIS: French President Francois Hollande vowed tough anti-terror laws and tighter security as police yesterday staged more raids after a crackdown that saw...
JOHANNESBURG: Representatives of 12,000 fired Anglo American Platinum workers in South Africa plan to lay murder charges after a colleague was killed in...
ATHENS/BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel will tell Greeks she wants to keep their country in the euro when she visits Athens this week,...
BRUSSELS: EU foreign affairs head Catherine Ashton welcomed Monday an accord between Manila and the Philippines' biggest Muslim rebel group to end a...
TOKYO: Japanese scientists have identified the genetic characteristics of people likely to suffer from chronic skin problems. The researchers are from the Center...
