RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has been lobbying US legislators to change a law allowing victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks to sue the kingdom, he said […]
KANDAHAR: Gunmen shot dead five female airport workers and their driver in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, underlining the threat to employed women in the country. The women were […]
BEIJING: China has objected to the Dalai Lama meeting with Indian President Pranab Mukherjee earlier this month, saying the talks had negatively impacted ties between the Asian neighbours. […]
LONDON: A British man who tried to grab a policeman’s gun at a Donald Trump rally has been sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison. Michael Sandford, 20, was sentenced in […]
BEIJING: The wife of a Chinese official has been jailed for taking bribes from vaccine manufacturers, a court said Thursday, in a case with echoes of a major […]
BERLIN: German defence minister has caused outrage in Saudi Arabia after she refused to wear a hijab during an official visit. Ursula von der Leyen and her team […]
ROME: Italy’s parliament on Wednesday endorsed a new government tipped to be so short-lived that its inauguration was seen as the start of the battle for the next […]
BEIRUT: An evacuation of rebel-held areas of eastern Aleppo was delayed on Wednesday for reasons that were not clear, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, holding up […]
Investigators looking for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are making their last sweep of the search area in the Indian Ocean, Australian authorities leading the search said on […]
A Lufthansa flight headed to Germany from Texas was diverted to a New York City airport on Monday, following a bomb threat called in to the airline’s headquarters, […]
