Reykjavik: An Icelandic woman whose mysterious disappearance and death last month shocked the tranquil island nation was reportedly strangled before being thrown into...
Reykjavik: An Icelandic woman whose mysterious disappearance and death last month shocked the tranquil island nation was reportedly strangled before being thrown into...
LONDON: Home-sharing website Airbnb has partnered with global aid agency International Rescue Committee (IRC) to provide short-term accommodation for refugees, joining a number...
Lome: Two private media channels have been taken off air in Togo, officially for breaching licensing rules, the country's regulator said Tuesday in...
Washington: The US Senate was poised to vote Tuesday on President Donald Trump's choice for education secretary -- Betsy DeVos, a deeply controversial...
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed into law a controversial bill easing punishment for domestic violence, which critics say will make...
LONDON: It was an invitation to seal Theresa May’s bid to revitalise the “special relationship” with the United States, but the promise of...
Paris: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Tuesday called a new Israeli law legalising dozens of Jewish outposts built on private Palestinian land an...
Former U.S. president Barack Obama is trying some new and dangerous water sports that the Hawaii native had to miss out on for...
Brasília: Sixty-five people are confirmed so far to have died in Brazil over the last two months in the country's worst yellow fever...
BEIRUT: The Syrian government has executed up to 13,000 prisoners in mass hangings and carried out systematic torture at a military jail near...
NINEVEH, Iraq: Two soldiers and ten militants were killed on Tuesday when security forces foiled a Islamic State attack in eastern Mosul, according...
Beirut: Syria's opposition on Tuesday demanded international observers be allowed access to regime-run detention centres, after an Amnesty International investigation into mass hangings...
BAGHDAD: Firebrand Iraqi Shia cleric and politician Muqtada al-Sadr has called on followers to stage mass demonstrations in Baghdad on Wednesday to demand...
Kabul: At least 19 people were killed and 41 wounded Tuesday in a suicide blast at Afghanistan's Supreme Court in Kabul, officials said,...
Beirut: Air strikes on Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate in the country's northwest on Tuesday killed 26 people, including civilians, a monitoring group told...
LAGOS, Nigeria: Nigeria has denied claims ageing President Muhammadu Buhari is seriously ill or incapacitated, calling on the public to disregard mounting concerns...
Paris: The Egyptian suspect in the attack on soldiers outside the Louvre museum in Paris has begun speaking to investigators and confirmed his...
A man tried to set himself alight with gasoline beside the Kaaba, inside the Holy city of Makkah late on Monday but was...
