CAIRO: The last challenger seen as a potential threat to the re-election of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was detained on Tuesday, and...
CAIRO: The last challenger seen as a potential threat to the re-election of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was detained on Tuesday, and...
GENEVA: Ethiopian security forces opened fire on protesters who were singing anti-government songs, U.N. human rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said on Tuesday. Authorities...
Islamabad: Pakistani police Tuesday arrested the key suspect accused of raping and murdering a young girl in a case that enraged the country...
MAPUTO: The son-in-law of Mozambique’s former President Armando Guebuza was sentenced to 24 years in prison on Tuesday for murdering his wife. Zofimo...
BEIRUT: Turkey has handed a suspect in last week’s bomb attack -- which targeted a leading Hamas member in the Lebanese city of...
Tokyo: Japan's weather officials say a volcano in Gunma Prefecture, north of the Japanese capital Tokyo, erupted on Tuesday morning. At almost the...
Cairo: Egypt's military on Tuesday accused a former armed forces chief of staff who plans to challenge President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in March...
Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: Bangladesh security forces have detained a Rohingya leader during a sweep in a refugee camp, police said Tuesday, as tension...
HONG KONG, Hong Kong student protest leader Joshua Wong was released on bail on Tuesday, less than a week after he was jailed...
An earthquake of magnitude 8.2 hit 256 km (157 miles) southeast of Chiniak, Alaska at a depth of 10 km at 0931 GMT...
BRUSSELS, European Union finance ministers confirmed on Tuesday that eight jurisdictions were removed from the bloc's blacklist of tax havens, one month after...
Seoul, South Korea is to make organising a suicide pact a criminal offence, officials said Tuesday, as the government seeks to reduce one...
Pyla, Cyprus: Two village leaders, a mosque, Orthodox churches and the UN: welcome to Pyla, one of the few places on the divided...
Yangon: Myanmar blamed Bangladesh on Tuesday for delays to a huge repatriation programme for Rohingya refugees, as the deadline passed for starting the...
Yangon, A court will decide whether to bail two Reuters journalists accused of breaching Myanmar's secrecy law on February 1, their lawyer said...
Paris, France's Carrefour group said Tuesday it is overhauling its business in a transformation plan involving thousands of job cuts, a product revamp...
JOHANNESBURG, Trumpeter, composer and singer Hugh Masekela, affectionately known as the 'father of South African jazz', has died after a long battle with...
Geneva, Switzerland: The UK police is actively investigating a group of United Arab Emirates officials for torture and cruel treatment inflicted on several...
