BANGKOK: Thai Muslims appreciate Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his Islamic sensitivity, a representative from the Southeast Asian country’s Sheikhul Islam Office...
BANGKOK: Thai Muslims appreciate Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his Islamic sensitivity, a representative from the Southeast Asian country’s Sheikhul Islam Office...
Montreal: Canada announced on Thursday it will extend for three months its mission against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria, where...
Caracas: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro faced the strongest criticism ever from within his own camp Friday as his attorney general condemned recent court...
New York: New York's mayor pledged Friday to shut down the notorious Rikers Island prison, the city's main jail complex, in a process...
SEOUL: Ex-South Korean President Park Geun-hye was arrested early Friday morning after a Seoul court approved a warrant request by state prosecutors. She...
JOHANNESBURG: President Jacob Zuma’s midnight sacking of his finance minister shook South African markets on Friday, undermining his authority and threatening to split...
Kuwait City: A prominent Kuwaiti opposition figure who was deported to Saudi Arabia after revoking his citizenship was allowed to return home on...
SYDNEY: Australia will conduct additional security checks on passengers flying directly from Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East to prevent security threats. The...
GENEVA: Negotiators from Syria’s government and opposition traded insults on Friday, calling each other “terrorists” and “adolescents” after an eight-day round of peace...
Baghdad: UN chief Antonio Guterres called Thursday for protection of civilians to be the "absolute priority" as he visited Iraq, where hundreds of...
MUMBAI: A crackdown on unlicensed abattoirs across India has raised concerns that it is part of a broader effort to shutter informal businesses,...
NEW DELHI: Abattoirs in India called off a four-day strike after the most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, ruled by Prime Minister Narendra...
New Delhi: India has sought divine intervention to rid its government buildings of the scourge of spitting -- wall tiles imprinted with the...
Washington: When FBI Director James Comey teased that he had joined the world of social media with secret Instagram and Twitter accounts, tech...
Edinburgh: The Scottish government on Friday formally asked British Prime Minister Theresa May for a second referendum on independence, deepening a constitutional crisis...
BRASILIA: The approval rating of Brazilian President Michel Temer’s scandal-plagued government has continued to fall in the midst of corruption allegations and a...
Washington: US environmental groups and a Native American tribe have filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration's plans to resume leasing of...
NEW YORK: The United States’ diplomatic policy on Syria for now is no longer focused on making the war-torn country’s president, Bashar al-Assad,...
