Brussels---Ministers from 47 European nations agreed for the first time Tuesday to harmonise their laws to stop so-called foreign fighters travelling to Iraq...
Brussels---Ministers from 47 European nations agreed for the first time Tuesday to harmonise their laws to stop so-called foreign fighters travelling to Iraq...
Kuala Lumpur---Malaysia's foreign minister was to host his Indonesian and Thai counterparts on Wednesday for urgent talks on Southeast Asia's boatpeople crisis, with...
Washington---US prosecutors have charged six Chinese nationals, including three university professors, in a years-long scheme to steal trade secrets on mobile phone technology...
United Nations, United States---The United Nations will explore options with Israel's new government for a return to negotiations on creating a Palestinian state...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban Strasbourg, France---Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban angered EU lawmakers and officials Tuesday by insisting that Budapest had the...
London---A British historian announced Tuesday he had discovered the only portrait of William Shakespeare made while the famous playwright was alive, a claim...
Mexico City---Authorities are investigating allegations that an armed group abducted at least 11 people after occupying a town in Mexico's troubled southern state...
Bujumbura, Burundi---Protesters opposed to Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza called for him to step down Tuesday, defying warnings to end weeks of demonstrations as...
Washington---After five months of negotiations, the United States and Cuba are closer to ending decades of diplomatic hostilities and reopening embassies in each...
Salgar, Colombia---Rescue workers in Colombia resumed the increasingly hopeless search for the missing Tuesday after a massive landslide, as the death toll rose...
Algiers---The Algerian army killed 22 armed Islamists in an operation Tuesday some 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of the capital, the defence ministry...
Washington---A US judge Tuesday ordered the State Department to end its foot-dragging and release thousands of emails from Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton,...
Los Angeles---An oil pipeline ruptured Tuesday dumping oil into the Pacific Ocean near Santa Barbara, California, the US Coast Guard said. The pipeline...
Banda Aceh, Indonesia---Hundreds of boatpeople were rescued by local fishermen from their wooden vessel off Indonesia's Aceh province on Wednesday, officials and fishermen...
DOHA: Building taller buildings in areas where the population has been exploding is the only way to provide affordable housing to people and...
Seoul: H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson, Education Above All (EAA), yesterday called on socially responsible corporations and philanthropic leaders to support...
Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani and Minister of Information and Communications Technology H...
The forum in progress. DOHA: The humanitarian crises in the Arab region are in the spotlight at the third International Forum for Humanitarian...
