Rio de Janeiro: State-owned Bank of Brazil said Monday that it is closing more than 400 branches with up to 18,000 jobs possibly...
Rio de Janeiro: State-owned Bank of Brazil said Monday that it is closing more than 400 branches with up to 18,000 jobs possibly...
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories: Israeli authorities will extend for a second time the detention without charge of a Palestinian journalist accused of belonging to...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s powerful army chief Raheel Sharif began a round of farewell visits on Monday, his spokesman said, damping speculation he might receive...
MUMBAI: India’s central bank said on Monday that people can withdraw up to 250,000 rupees ($3,670) for wedding related expenses, provided they submit...
BRUSSELS: European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will not step down, a spokesman said on Monday, after a German magazine raised the possibility amid...
Paris: Francois Fillon and Alain Juppe, the two men set to duel next Sunday for the French rightwing presidential nomination, both advocate deep...
RAMALLAH, Palestine: The Israeli government is planning to build 7,000 new settlement units in the occupied East Jerusalem, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said...
SAN FRANCISCO: The main U.S. visa program for technology workers could face renewed scrutiny under President-elect Donald Trump and his proposed Attorney General,...
YANGON/SHANGHAI: Myanmar’s eight-month-old government faced a fresh crisis on Monday, after four ethnic armed groups attacked security forces in the north of the...
NAIROBI: Issac Muasa decided to give up his life of crime on Kenya’s streets in the instant he saw a speeding police car...
BAGHDAD: Hundreds of civilians have fled eastern Mosul amid an ongoing military offensive to oust Islamic State terrorist group from Iraq’s second largest...
London: Tony Blair is not planning a return to frontline politics in Britain but will speak out on Brexit from the "currently vacant"...
Rawalpindi, Pakistan: One of Pakistan's best-known mountaineers, Hassan Sadpara, died of cancer Monday aged 54, his family said, as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Like millions of Indians fed up with corruption and counterfeiting, Vimal Somani cheered Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s shock move to replace...
JUBA, South Sudan: Japanese peacekeepers, with a broader mandate to use force, landed in South Sudan Monday, the first overseas deployment of the...
Pukhrayan, India: Rescuers on Monday ended their search for survivors amongst the twisted remains of a derailed train as the death toll from...
Washington: Hundreds of people protesting a North Dakota oil pipeline project clashed early Monday with police who fired tear gas, rubber bullets and...
BAGHDAD: A pro-government Shia militia has made gains in Iraq’s predominantly Turkmen city of Tal Afar, taking the city’s military airport and 17...
