BAGHDAD (AA): Iraqi forces on Friday seized a government complex -- and other sites -- in eastern Mosul following clashes with Islamic State...
BAGHDAD (AA): Iraqi forces on Friday seized a government complex -- and other sites -- in eastern Mosul following clashes with Islamic State...
Dhaka: Bangladeshi police Saturday said they have arrested an Islamist extremist accused of being one of the "masterminds" of last year's deadly siege...
Carlini Base, Antarctica: Vast icy rock peaks tower above Argentina's Carlini research base in Antarctica. But scientists who have worked here for decades...
SHANGHAI: A man in China's central Henan province has become the latest person reported to have died this winter from H7N9 bird flu,...
United Nations, United States: US Ambassador Samantha Power on Friday warned that cutting US funding to the United Nations would be "extremely detrimental"...
London: The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator has told colleagues that they need to strike a "special" deal with Britain's finance sector in...
Abidjan: Ivory Coast's government and rebel troops reached a deal at talks in second city Bouake late Friday, government sources said, even as...
PARIS: Francois Fillon, the conservative politician seen by opinion polls as most likely to win the French presidential election this year, says France...
NEW YORK: Hundreds of domestic cats have been quarantined in New York City after contracting a strain of highly contagious avian flu at...
Washington: The US House of Representatives on Friday joined the Senate in passing a critical measure that marks the first major step toward...
Mexico City: Mexico appointed its third ambassador to the United States in less than a year just days before inauguration of President-elect Donald...
Kathmandu: Ten years after the end of Nepal’s bloody civil war, the Himalayan republic has failed to punish perpetrators of human rights abuses...
Beijing: Footage of a 92-year-old Chinese woman reportedly kept for years by her son in a pigsty has incited an online firestorm, as...
Yangon: Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to start consultation for verification and repatriation of refugees, said a statement of the Myanmar Foreign Ministry...
Colombo: Several districts in Sri Lanka would face severe drought conditions in the coming three weeks as very little rain was expected, the...
Colombo: Sri Lanka yesterday tightened the rules governing the around one million tuk-tuks -- rickety three-wheel taxis -- on its streets after road...
New Delhi: The replacement of Mahatma Gandhi's photographs with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's in Khadi Village Industries Commission (KVIC)'s annual calendar and diary...
There is no denying that from time to time anti-Semitism raises its ugly head in the UK, as it does in many other...
