Tensions mounted in Ajaccio after two firefighters and a police officer were wounded overnight when they were "ambushed" by "several hooded youths". AFP ...
Tensions mounted in Ajaccio after two firefighters and a police officer were wounded overnight when they were "ambushed" by "several hooded youths". AFP ...
Leader of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) Pedro Sanchez gives a press conference at the PSOE headquarters in Madrid. AFP Madrid: Spain's Socialists...
Tokyo: Japan has confirmed Chinese authorities have arrested a third Japanese citizen and detained another on suspicion of spying. The series of arrests...
US President Barack Obama, with first lady Michelle Obama, delivers remarks at a reception with service members at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in...
A file picture dated 22 November 2015 shows people searching for miners killed by a landslide at Hpa Kant jade mining area, Kachin...
Residents inspect damage at a site hit by airstrikes by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad in Aleppo, yesterday. Beirut/damascus: Zahran...
Flowers are placed on a memorial wall commemorating the late former South and North Korean ''comfort women'' at the War and Women's Human...
Counts of PM2.5, harmful microscopic particles that penetrate deep into the lungs, in Beijing peaked at 620 micrograms per cubic metre as of...
Pakistan's Army Chief of Staff General Raheel Sharif take part in a welcoming ceremony with military honours at the headquarters of Pakistan's army...
Giorgi Kvirikashvili Tbilisi: Georgia's ruling coalition on Friday nominated vice premier Giorgi Kvirikashvili as the new head of government after the surprise resignation...
BEIJING: Nepal’s foreign minister asked China on Friday for help in dealing with an energy crisis that crippled the landlocked country over the...
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s armed forces will move to retake the major northern city of Mosul from Islamic State once they capture the western city...
MOSCOW:Russia’s air force has made 5,240 sorties since it started the strikes in Syria on Sept. 30, including 189 sorties on Thursday alone,...
Frank-Walter Steinmeier BERLIN: Saudi Arabia has a central role in fighting Islamic State as it can help eliminate the ultra-hardline militant group’s ideological...
BEIJING: China’s ruling Communist Party said on Friday it had begun a probe into a deputy chief prosecutor in the unruly far western...
Representative image Dhaka: A bomb exploded Friday at a mosque of the minority Ahmadi Muslim group in Bangladesh's northwestern town of Bagmara leaving...
Ursula Gauthier Beijing: China has refused to renew the press credentials of a French journalist, effectively expelling her, unless she recants one of...
South Korean photographer Ahn Sehong stands before his photographs of Korean "comfort women" in Tokyo ©Toshifumi Kitamura (AFP/File) Tokyo: A Japanese court on...
