WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced what he said would be substantial new sanctions against Iran in the first response to what US officials say was likely...
NEW DELHI: India announced on Wednesday a ban on the sale of electronic cigarettes, as a backlash gathers pace worldwide about a technology promoted as less harmful than smoking...
JALALABAD: A suicide bomber detonated inside a government building in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, a provincial official said, with casualties feared in the latest violence...
LONDON: Jeremy Corbyn (pix), the leader of Britain’s main opposition Labour party, suggested Wednesday he would remain neutral if there was a second referendum on Brexit.
TEHRAN: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday Yemenis targeted Saudi oil facilities as a “warning” about a possible wider war in response to the kingdom’s US-backed intervention...
SYDNEY: A tiny penguin that made the mammoth journey from New Zealand to Australia has been nursed back to health and released into the wild — in the hope it will find its own...
PARIS: France is sending experts to Saudi Arabia to investigate the origin of attacks on Saudi oil facilities that Washington blamed on Iran, the presidency said Wednesday after...
KABUL: The Taliban’s chief negotiator has said their “doors are open” to resuming talks with Washington, hours after two attacks by insurgents killed at least 48 people in war-weary...
TIMIKA: An Indonesian cargo plane with four people on board lost contact with air traffic control on Wednesday, an official said, the latest incident to hit the country’s poor...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan fired back Wednesday at New Delhi’s “jingoistic rhetoric” after India’s foreign minister vowed to retake Islamabad’s portion of the disputed Kashmir region...
WELLINGTON: Air New Zealand backed down on plans to trademark a logo of the Maori greeting “kia ora” Wednesday after indigenous groups accused it of cultural theft.
BEIJING: China will auction 10,000 tonnes of reserve pork this week, the commerce ministry said, in a bid to control the fallout from an outbreak of African swine fever that has...
