JERUSALEM: Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes built without planning permits that are almost impossible to obtain have risen sharply during the coronavirus pandemic despite...
Hanoi: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked Southeast Asian nations Thursday to reconsider deals with Chinese companies blacklisted by Washington for building island...
GENEVA: The Review Committee of the International Health Regulations (IHR) will begin its work on Tuesday to evaluate the functioning of the IHR during...
WASHINGTON: Democratic U.S. vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris said she would not take President Donald Trump’s word alone on any potential coronavirus vaccine.
In an...
MOSCOW: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday left Moscow for Iran where he will meet his Iranian counterpart and discuss bilateral defence ties, a...
ISLAMABAD: A high court in Pakistan on Thursday directed the federal government to give India another chance to appoint a lawyer to represent death-row...
ABU DHABI: In less than 24 hours on the ground, Israel’s first-of-its-kind delegation to the United Arab Emirates received a warm welcome that would...
WASHINGTON: Kamala Harris is "not competent" to be president, US President Donald Trump has said as he launched an attack on the Indian-origin senator's...
United Nations: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for an end to discrimination against religious minorities and related hate crimes, pointing out that...
TEHRAN: Iran won’t accept any additional demands beyond its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal, the country’s top nuclear official declared Tuesday as the...
GENEVA: The World Health Organization says using plasma from the recovered to treat COVID-19 is still considered an “experimental” therapy and that the preliminary...
JERUSALEM: Israeli archaeologists announced Monday the discovery of a trove of early Islamic gold coins found during recent salvage excavations near the central city...
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump's older sister, a former federal judge, is heard sharply criticizing her brother in a series of recordings released Saturday, at...
LAHORE: The Pakistan government has declared former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, currently in London for treatment, an “absconder” and approached the UK government for...
BEIJING: Chinese president Xi Jinping on Friday described the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as a “landmark project” under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)...
BEIJING: People in China’s capital Beijing are no longer required to wear masks outdoors, health authorities said on Friday, a second such announcement since...
ANKARA:ETURKISH President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Friday the discovery of a large natural gas reserve off the Black Sea coast that will help...