Yemeni government forces made gains around the Red Sea coastal town of Mokha in heavy fighting overnight as they rebuffed a rebel counter-offensive,...
Yemeni government forces made gains around the Red Sea coastal town of Mokha in heavy fighting overnight as they rebuffed a rebel counter-offensive,...
Tokyo: Japan has protested to Russia over its plan to boost troop strength on disputed islands, Japan's top government spokesman said yesterday, the...
Tokyo: A Japanese court yesterday awarded record compensation for thousands of residents near a US military base over aircraft noise, but rejected their...
Lahore: AS MANY as 217 Hindu pilgrims arrived in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore yesterday through Wagah border on a seven-day tour to...
Singapore: Two hundred firefighters battled a blaze at a Singapore waste management plant which triggered a series of explosions and sent a plume...
Bangkok: Thai police filed two new arrest warrants against an influential former abbot of Thailand's biggest Buddhist temple yesterday after a week-long standoff...
Bangkok: Thailand's Supreme Court yesterday reduced the sentence of a prominent former magazine editor who had been jailed for 10 years for insulting...
Manila: The Philippines' top diplomat said yesterday any move by China to transform a Manila-claimed shoal into an island would be a "game-changer"...
Kabul: A government official says Afghanistan is ready to seek United Nations sanctions against suspected terrorist networks and their supporters, a veiled reference...
Today the countries of the Lake Chad region — Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, donor governments such as Norway and Germany, the United...
During a White House press conference on February 16, April Ryan, an African American reporter for the American Urban Radio Networks, asked US...
Beijing: China's defence ministry said yesterday it was aware of the presence of a US aircraft carrier strike group in the South China...
Bangkok: Activists are urging Unilever, a major investor in Myanmar, to speak out against the country's treatment of its Rohingya minority, which the...
New Delhi: The central government yesterday did away with security requirement of stamping hand baggage tags at the time of boarding the aircraft...
Amsterdam: DUTCH anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders, who is leading polls ahead of next month’s election, said he had cancelled all public campaign events...
Rome: Justice Minister Andrea Orlando said yesterday he would challenge former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi for leadership of Italy’s ruling Democratic Party (PD),...
Berlin: Two senior members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Conservatives yesterday warned election rivals the Social Democrats (SPD) against politicising Germany’s efforts to increase...
London: Migrants from eight Eastern European countries are increasingly leaving Britain after the Brexit vote but the number arriving from Bulgaria and Romania...
