Ankara: Turkey has begun building a "security wall" along part of its border with Iran, regional officials said Tuesday, in a move aimed...
Ankara: Turkey has begun building a "security wall" along part of its border with Iran, regional officials said Tuesday, in a move aimed...
JOHANNESBURG: South African President Jacob Zuma again survived a no-confidence vote in parliament Tuesday in the most serious attempt yet to unseat him...
Tenerife, Spain: Authorities in Spain's Canary Islands kept beaches open to the public Tuesday but warned holidaymakers against touching potentially irritating microalgae blooms...
Washington: An Iranian drone flew within 100 feet (30 meters) of a US Naval jet Tuesday as the American plane was trying to...
SINGAPORE: A 60-year-old Singaporean man is under investigation for inserting toothpicks into a seat on a public bus, a suspected case of "mischief"...
Tehran: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani put forward a new cabinet line-up on Tuesday that was immediately criticised by reformists for its lack of...
SYDNEY: Police in Australia, Dubai and the Netherlands have arrested 17 people and seized nearly two tonnes of narcotics in raids the Australian...
NAGAPATTINAM, India: Last year farmer Veeramani leased a modest plot of land from his village temple in southern India to grow rice. He...
DAKAR: Children in conflict-ravaged central Democratic Republic of Congo are suffering ‘terrible acts of abuse’, having been forced into armed groups, drugged and...
DAKAR: Escalating militia violence and a surge in attacks on aid workers in northern Mali are restricting the delivery of food and healthcare...
ABOARD the MS AQUARIUS: Fishermen at a Tunisian port on Sunday prevented a ship carrying far-right anti-immigration activists from docking, dealing a fresh...
YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi’s first major infrastructure project could hardly be more visible - hundreds of new yellow buses now plying the...
VIENNA: Twin panda cubs born and raised at Vienna Zoo celebrated their first birthday very differently on Monday: one gorged on snacks in...
DUBAI: A small fire broke out a Dubai hotel on Monday, forcing guests and staff to leave, in the third such blaze in...
RAMALLAH, West Bank: Jordan’s King Abdallah will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Monday for the first time...
TOKYO: A weakening Typhoon Noru made landfall in central Japan on Monday, pounding some regions with more than a month’s worth of rain,...
BERLIN: Britain will have to keep making payments for long-term programmes to the European Union until at least 2020, even after it leaves...
NEW DELHI: Tens of thousands of flood survivors in India’s remote northeast are at risk of contracting diseases such as malaria and Japanese...
