Caracas: Venezuela began reopening its border with Colombia yesterday earlier than expected after shutting it last week amid a crackdown on smugglers and...
Caracas: Venezuela began reopening its border with Colombia yesterday earlier than expected after shutting it last week amid a crackdown on smugglers and...
Washington: Donald Trump's upset win in the US presidential election astonished people so much that they rushed to the dictionary to look up...
Washington: The Obama administration reaffirmed its commitment to maintaining sanctions on Russia over Crimea with new financial restrictions announced yesterday on Russian businessmen...
Jakarta: An Indonesian court will decide next week whether to push forward with a controversial blasphemy trial of Jakarta's Christian governor, who is...
Kinshasa: The United Nations voiced alarm yesterday over a wave of arrests in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where tensions were running high...
Kinshasa: Security forces fired teargas and arrested youths gathered in the streets of Kinshasa yesterday to demand that Democratic Republic of Congo President...
Seoul: South Korea's Constitutional Court will hold its first hearing in the impeachment case of President Park Geun-hye (pictured) tomorrow with initial opinions...
Geneva: The UN rights chief urged the Philippines yesterday to investigate President Rodrigo Duterte (pictured) for murder, after he boasted that he in...
United Nations: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he feared genocide was about to start in South Sudan unless immediate action is taken,...
Bangkok: Thailand's junta chief yesterday defended amendments to a cyber security law that boosts censorship powers, slamming social media as a hotbed of...
Kenya's government has terminated operations of a US-funded project to educate voters, just months before this East African country holds its next presidential...
Japan's space agency said yesterday it had successfully launched a solid fuel rocket named Epsilon-2, the latest in Tokyo's effort to stay competitive...
Paris: French screen legend Michele Morgan, who starred in some 70 movies and took home the best actress prize at the first-ever Cannes...
Tokyo: Japan's Supreme Court ruled yesterday in favour of the central government in its bid to relocate a US airbase on Okinawa, dealing...
New Delhi: The United Naga Council, which represents the Nagas living in Manipur, met Home Minister Rajnath Singh here yesterday and demanded that...
Beijing: In an apparent reference to Pakistan, India has renewed its demand for international action against Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror...
New Delhi: India and Kyrgyzstan yesterday pledged to work together to prevent youths from falling prey to the common challenges of terrorism, extremism...
Warsaw: Poland’s lower house of parliament lifted a temporary ban on media access yesterday in a gesture to defuse protests over the alleged...