Sri Lankan President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has appointed his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa, who forged close ties with Beijing during his 10-year rule, as the...
Sri Lankan President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has appointed his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa, who forged close ties with Beijing during his 10-year rule, as the...
Tokyo - Tokyo 2020 organisers on Thursday unveiled the $523 million venue for swimming, diving and artistic swimming that will seat 15,000 fans...
BANGKOK - A strong earthquake struck on Thursday near the border of Thailand and Laos, setting high-rise buildings swaying in Bangkok, and prompting...
LONDON, Some British Airways flights were delayed by a technical issue on Thursday, the airline said, in the latest setback for the British...
Beijing, The US-born giant panda Bei Bei has arrived in southwestern China after a 16-hour flight, with plenty of bamboo for him to...
SEOUL, North Korea rejected an invitation for leader Kim Jong Un to attend a planned summit in Seoul with Southeast Asian nations next...
BEIRUT: Lebanon's caretaker information minister and two former telecoms ministers could face trial on charges of wasting public funds after their cases were...
TAIPEI: Tuvalu's foreign minister said on Thursday the South Pacific nation had rejected offers from Chinese companies to build artificial islands to help...
Hwaseong, South Korea: Under the watchful gaze of Samsung Electronics security personnel, health and safety staffer Ko Jee-hun stood outside his semiconductor plant,...
Sydney was shrouded by smoke for a second time this week on Thursday as bushfires continued to rage along Australia’s eastern seaboard. Early...
LONDON: Major hotels in Britain are failing to protect workers from debt bondage and sexual exploitation, according to a study on Wednesday that...
FILABUSI, Zimbabwe: Under the blazing sun, a group of men use picks and shovels to dig up a bushy patch of land outside...
KIEV: Ukraine has widened its investigation into the founder of energy company Burisma to include suspicion of embezzling state funds, Prosecutor General Ruslan...
KHARTOUM: Sudan's most prominent Islamist politician was arrested on Wednesday after being summoned for questioning over former leader Omar al-Bashir's rise to power...
Former military chief Benny Gantz failed to muster enough support in parliament to form a government and dislodge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, bringing...
THE HAGUE: Greta Thunberg, a young activist who has gone from staging school strikes to scolding world leaders about their climate change inaction,...
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump, citing a portion of U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland's congressional testimony in a House impeachment inquiry...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled his new cabinet in Ottawa on Wednesday, after losing his parliamentary majority in last month’s election. The...
