Dakar: Senegal's national assembly has lifted the parliamentary immunity of Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall, a leading opponent of President Macky Sall, opening the...
Dakar: Senegal's national assembly has lifted the parliamentary immunity of Dakar mayor Khalifa Sall, a leading opponent of President Macky Sall, opening the...
TOKYO, A Japanese cosmetics firm has apologised for a sign banning entry for Chinese people posted in one of its outlets, highlighting lingering...
Islamabad: In the space of three weeks, a simple demonstration in Islamabad has turned into a national crisis for Pakistan. At least six...
BEIJING, British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, on his Chinese microblog Weibo account, praised the lead singer of China’s most popular boy band for...
NEW YORK: The number of homeless people in the U.S. is more than the population of 47 cities in Turkey, according to data...
ANKARA: A total of 3,613 Palestinians have been killed in Syria since the outbreak of the country’s civil war in 2011, according to...
PARIS: France on Saturday praised a Myanmar-Bangladesh agreement for the return of Rohingya Muslims who crossed into Bangladesh to escape persecution. In a...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: At least four people including two women and a child were killed and 20 others injured in a suspected suicide attack...
EASTERN GHOUTA/ANKARA: A Syrian warplane struck an orphanage in Eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus on Saturday, according to a spokesman for the Turkish...
Sao Paulo: Seven people have been found dead in Rio de Janeiro's port after what police said was a deadly clash among suspected...
Havana: With little fanfare, Cuba on Saturday commemorated the first anniversary of the death of revolutionary leader Fidel Castro as it prepares to...
Potsdam, Germany: The far-right Alternative for Germany party sees Chancellor Angela Merkel's struggle to form a new government as proof of its growing...
Geneva: The United Nations' Syria envoy, Staffan de Mistura, has been accused of lacking clarity at times when he speaks. But when it...
Beirut: From the bloody repression of peaceful protests against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad to foreign intervention, below are key dates in...
Chautara, Nepal: Millions of Nepalis headed to the polls Sunday for a historic election billed as a turning point for the impoverished Himalayan...
Shanghai: A major explosion hit China's megaport city of Ningbo on Sunday, killing at least two people, injuring dozens and destroying buildings and...
Sydney, Voter disillusionment with mainstream politics in Australia's Queensland state left neither major party with enough seats to govern outright, early results showed...
Denpasar, Indonesia, A volcano on the Indonesian tourist hub of Bali sent plumes of grey smoke and steam thousands of metres into the...
