
In Sri Lanka, violence continued in some areas of Kandy district even as government promulgated emergency for one week to prevent spreading of violenc...

A Russian military transport plane crashed in Syria yesterday killing all 39 people on board, Russian officials said. The Kremlin said in a statement ...

Donald Trump has reacted cautiously to the news that North Korea is willing to talk about giving up its nuclear weapons if it did not feel threatened....

The US President Donald Trump's top economic adviser, Gary Cohn, has said he was resigning. The decision reportedly came after he lost a fight within ...

Air India has been allowed by Saudi Arabia to fly over its territory on its new route from New Delhi to Tel Aviv, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neta...

RIYADH: The average age for developing heart disease in the Kingdom is 56, 10 years younger than the global average, the president of the Saudi Heart ...

Nepal and Pakistan on Tuesday agreed to revitalise the Saarc process for “greater peace, security and prosperity in the region” during talks that visi...

YANGON: Myanmar’s “ethnic cleansing” of Rohingya Muslims is continuing, a senior UN human rights official said on Tuesday, more than six months after ...

CAIRO: Egypt will allow stretches of land in the southern Sinai to be used for Saudi Arabia’s planned megacity Neom project announced by the Kingdom l...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said that he wants to “vigorously advance” relations with South Korea, telling a visiting delegation from Seoul he...

In Nigeria, at least three people were killed and 18 others injured when a suicide bomber on a bicycle detonated his explosives on the outskirts of th...

The leaders of two anti-establishment parties have each claimed they have the right to govern Italy, after voters in Europe's fourth-largest economy d...

Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi yesterday arrived here on a two-day visit during which he will hold talks with Nepal's top leadership as ...

An apartment block collapsed Sunday in Poland's western city of Poznan, killing four people and injuring 24 others, officials said as teams of firefig...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is hosting a dinner for two South Korean delegates, the first time officials from Seoul have met the young leader sinc...

BEIJING - China does not want a trade war with the United States but will defend its interests, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Sunday, after U.S. P...

Iraq has overtaken Saudi Arabia by a wide margin to become India’s top crude oil supplier, meeting more than a fifth of the country’s oil needs in the...

Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on a two-day visit to Nepal will be accorded a guard of honour by the Nepali Army. "He (Pakistan Pri...

China issued licences to automakers that allow self-driving vehicles to be road-tested for the first time.Two licences were offered to Shanghai-based ...

Media mogul Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition is set to win the most votes but may fall short of a majority in Italy's election, with far-right...

Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) decisively backed another coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, clearing the way for a new governm...

The US Embassy in Turkey will be closed today due to an unspecified security threat. A statement posted on the embassy's web page yesterday urged US c...

British Prime Minister Theresa May will set out her vision on Friday for a Brexit deal deeper and wider than any "free trade agreement anywhere in the...

China expressed anger on Thursday after the US Senate passed a bill promoting closer US ties with Taiwan, but the step drew praise from the self-ruled...

Washington: FBI counterintelligence officials are reportedly scrutinising one of President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump's business deals relat...

US President Donald Trump suggested that the US should follow the example of other countries that impose the death penalty on drug traffickers.Speakin...

The United States government on Friday said it was aware of media reports claiming that jeweller Nirav Modi was in the country, but said it was unable...

A loud explosion was heard in an area close to embassies in Kabul on Friday.Police sirens could be heard in the area but there was no immediate word o...

Eight Turkish soldiers were killed and 13 injured in clashes in northwest Syria's Afrin region yesterday. Turkey's armed forces said, the injured...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has revealed new nuclear weapons which could hit any target around the globe with little chance of interception. He m...
Where should be the burial of the pilgrims martyred in the Saudi Arabia bus accident?