Washington: Fifty Democratic congressmen wrote US President Donald Trump on Friday demanding he explain his placement of controversial chief strategist Steve Bannon on...
Washington: Fifty Democratic congressmen wrote US President Donald Trump on Friday demanding he explain his placement of controversial chief strategist Steve Bannon on...
WASHINGTON: Tens of thousands of visas were revoked under U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban affecting seven Muslim-majority countries, the State Department said...
Avdiivka, Ukraine: Clashes between Ukrainian forces and Moscow-backed rebels left two more dead in a flashpoint town yesterday and four others elsewhere in...
Paris: A French soldier patrolling at the Louvre museum shot and seriously injured a machete-wielding attacker yesterday, thrusting security and the terror threat...
New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley yesterday introduced a bill on demonetisation in the Lok Sabha to formally make the banning of `500...
Beijing: China’s Foreign Ministry said yesterday that it hoped the government-funded Confucius Institute could continue to play a role in South Korea after...
Bucharest: Romania’s ombudsman went to Constitutional Court yesterday to challenge a government decree that decriminalises some graft offences, a move that has caused...
New Delhi: Indian police have busted an Internet scam in which around 650,000 people lost a combined `37bn ($549m) after sending money to...
Beijing: US President Donald Trump’s pick for ambassador to China, Terry Branstad, said he would help increase trade in a “win-win” for both...
Dhaka: A Bangladeshi journalist was killed while covering clashes between two factions of the ruling Awami League party in a northern district, police...
Chennai: Port authorities in Chennai have impounded a BW LPG vessel and a local ship carrying heavy fuel oil, and detained their crews,...
Stockholm: A SWEDISH far-right lawmaker was charged with assault yesterday after a fight outside a club in Stockholm last year, public prosecutors said....
Ankara: Syria's main opposition groups and Turkey on Friday rejected discussing the future administrative make-up of Syria or a new constitution at talks...
Stockholm: Sweden's deputy prime minister, Isabella Lovin, on Friday published a photograph of herself signing a climate bill surrounded by her closest female...
A Trump administration aide corrected herself on Friday after a wave of criticism for referencing a 2011 “massacre” in Kentucky that never occurred...
Luanda: Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos confirmed Friday that he would step down ahead of elections due in August, signalling the end...
GENEVA: Myanmar’s security forces have committed mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya Muslims and burned their villages since October in a campaign...
