Caracas: President Nicolas Maduro said Friday he had asked the United Nations to help address severe shortages of medicine in Venezuela, a rare...
Caracas: President Nicolas Maduro said Friday he had asked the United Nations to help address severe shortages of medicine in Venezuela, a rare...
BEIJING: An operation platform collapsed at a power plant in China on Saturday, killing nine people and injuring two, the official Xinhua news...
Washington: The Republican Party's longstanding ideological divisions were laid bare in very public fashion this week, sinking President Donald Trump's Obamacare repeal plan...
Yangon: Myanmar on Saturday rejected the UN rights council's decision to investigate allegations that security officers have murdered, raped and tortured Rohingya Muslims,...
MANILA: Philippine soldiers on Saturday rescued one of two Filipino cargo ship crewmen taken captive just two days ago by suspected Abu Sayyaf...
LONDON: In a less-than-slick escape from parliament when her staff appeared rattled as a lone assailant rampaged just yards away, Prime Minister Theresa...
TUNIS: Tunisia is drafting an “economic emergency” bill that will allow the government to bypass bureaucratic hurdles and speed up large-scale projects as...
BEIJING: China said on Friday it was in touch with the Philippines about the possible visit of a Chinese naval ship to the...
Baghdad: Populist Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr told a demonstration in Baghdad on Friday that he would order a boycott of upcoming Iraqi parliamentary...
GENEVA: The top United Nations human rights body agreed on Friday to send an international fact-finding mission to investigate widespread allegations of killings,...
Cairo: Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak left a military hospital on Friday where he had spent much of his six-year detention, his lawyer...
MOSUL, Iraq: Eastern Mosul is coming back to life. In the few weeks since Iraqi forces drove Islamic State from this side of...
MUMBAI: The Indian government is giving industrial projects a chance to clear regulatory hurdles they had previously failed to do, in a move...
WASHINGTON: In the middle of a confused three-day scramble by U.S. Republicans to save their plan to dismantle Obamacare, President Donald Trump telephoned...
Paris: French President Francois Hollande said Friday rightwing presidential candidate Francois Fillon had exceeded the bounds of "dignity and responsibility" by accusing him...
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte hit out at the European Union on Friday for hypocrisy and called the bloc “sons of bitches” after...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong authorities have launched a prosecution against the captain of the ship and shipping agent involved in transporting nine Singaporean...
SHANGHAI: China’s air quality was markedly worse in the first two months of the year than the same period of 2016 following a...
