DOHA: A criminal court is hearing a case involving three menial workers accused of running an illicit hooch trade and amassing as much...
DOHA: A criminal court is hearing a case involving three menial workers accused of running an illicit hooch trade and amassing as much...
Paramaribo, Suriname--Suriname has given President Desi Bouterse's party an absolute majority in parliament, according to partial election results Tuesday, consolidating the ex-dictator and...
Baghdad--Restrictions on Iraqi people fleeing the fighting in Anbar province are forcing some of them to return straight into conflict areas, an aid...
Paris--The UN treaty to protect the ozone layer has prevented a likely surge in skin cancer in Australia, New Zealand and northern Europe,...
Beijing--Chinese police have arrested 175 tomb raiders who allegedly made off with more than 1,100 historic cultural artefacts worth upwards of $80 million,...
Bujumbura, Burundi--Burundi's government on Tuesday condemned mounting diplomatic pressure over President Pierre Nkurunziza's controversial bid to stand for a third consecutive term, signalling...
Nairobi--A Kenyan lawyer has offered US president Barack Obama 50 cows and other assorted livestock in exchange for his 16-year old daughter Malia's...
Brussels--German Chancellor Angela Merkel and France's Francois Hollande will likely meet next week to finalise plans for a more integrated eurozone as the...
Tripoli--Militias in Benghazi are trapping civilians in the strife-torn eastern Libyan city, leaving them in dire conditions without food, medical care and electricity,...
PRISTINA--Several thousand people gathered at a university in Kosovo's capital Pristina on Tuesday for the funeral of eight ethnic Albanian gunmen killed in...
Houston--Torrential rain left large parts of Houston submerged Tuesday and trapped fans at an NBA basketball game, in savage weather that has killed...
Geneva--The World Health Organization got the go-ahead Tuesday for a sweeping shake-up, including a $100-million war chest to battle future emergencies following the...
Kuwaiti Islamist opposition MPs Waleed Tabtabai and Abdullah Bargash Kuwait City--A Kuwaiti court on Tuesday overturned a decision by the Gulf state's government...
Istanbul--President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday opened a new airport in a restive eastern province dogged by a Kurdish separatist insurgency, naming the...
Moscow--The leader of France's far-right National Front, Marine Le Pen, visited Moscow Tuesday for talks with the speaker of the lower house that...
Colombo--Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena flew to the island's former warzone of Jaffna on Tuesday to defuse rising tensions over the gang sexual...
Brussels--Aides to European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker went to his defence Tuesday for shirking protocol when he greeted leaders at an EU summit...
BEIJING: Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson Yang Yujun said Tuesday that the country has not built any military bases overseas, stressing that China pursues...
