Washington/New York: MICHIGAN’S attorney general said yesterday he had filed a lawsuit to halt the Green Party’s requested recount of presidential votes in...
Washington/New York: MICHIGAN’S attorney general said yesterday he had filed a lawsuit to halt the Green Party’s requested recount of presidential votes in...
Berlin: AN IRON gate from the former Nazi concentration camp in Germany’s Dachau with the slogan “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work will set you...
Moscow/Kiev: Russia yesterday said it had uncovered a plot by foreign spy agencies to sow chaos in Russia’s banking system via a coordinated...
New Delhi: In wake of the terror attack at an Army camp in Nagrota earlier this week, Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley yesterday...
Islamabad: After three decades of devolution, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government has silently restored powers of the prime minister to sack heads of...
Pakistan: More than 380,000 registered Afghan refugees have returned from Pakistan this year, the highest number since 2007, the United Nations said yesterday,...
Islamabad: A creative Pakistani student is amongst 60 young people from across the Commonwealth selected to receive prestigious Queen’s Young Leaders Award. Syed...
Karachi: China and Pakistan have launched a direct rail and sea freight service, with the first cargo train departing from Yunnan, an inland...
Sri LANKA'S private bus operators and taxi drivers stopped work yesterday to protest government plans of a 50-fold increase in traffic fines to...
Manila: China's coastguard rescued two Filipino fishermen from a capsized boat near a disputed South China Sea shoal yesterday, underlining the fast thawing...
Seoul: South Korea and Japan said yesterday they would impose new unilateral sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes,...
Banjul: Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has conceded defeat to the opposition, the chairman of the electoral commission said yesterday, bringing a dramatic end...
Beijing: China's top court yesterday cleared a man executed 21 years ago for murder -- more than a decade after another man confessed...
Phnom Penh: A Cambodian opposition leader who has spent months holed up in his party headquarters in a bid to avoid arrest was...
Lagos: A billion dollars are needed to provide aid for victims of Boko Haram jihadists in Nigeria's restive northeast next year, the United...
Bethlehem: More than 200 Palestinians from the besieged Gaza Strip travelled to occupied East Jerusalem yesterday to attend prayers at the Al Aqsa...
Tripoli: Rival armed groups battled overnight and into yesterday in the worst outbreak of fighting in the Libyan capital Tripoli for more than...
Abu Dhabi: Representatives from dozens of countries began a meeting in Abu Dhabi yesterday to discuss the creation of a $100m fund to...
