COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s president on Sunday reappointed as prime minister the same man he sacked from the job nearly two months ago, ending a messy power struggle that had paralysed...
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia seized more than 3.2 tonnes of elephant tusks hidden in a storage container sent from Mozambique, a customs official said Sunday, marking the country’s largest...
HODEIDA: Residents of Yemen’s flashpoint port of Hodeida and other cities fear a UN-brokered ceasefire could collapse at any moment, saying that after four years of conflict any...
PARIS: Groups of defiant “yellow vest” demonstrators faced off with tens of thousands of police around France on Saturday, but the protest movement appeared to have lost momentum...
WASHINGTON: Outraged Democrats vowed to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that could undo the US health care law known as Obamacare, saying on Saturday that they will use their new...
KASHMIR: Seven civilians were killed as Indian troops fired on protesters today after a gunfight left three armed rebels and a soldier dead in the disputed region of Kashmir, police...
YANGON: Myanmar’s president said today it had been an “auspicious” year for Rakhine state, the violence-scarred territory and epicentre of the Rohingya crisis.
WASHINGTON: A federal judge in Texas yesterday ruled the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, was unconstitutional based on its mandate requiring that people buy health...
WASHINGTON: The death of a seven-year-old Guatemalan girl last week in the custody of US border agents sparked furore yesterday and raised new pressure on the Trump administration’s...
WASHINGTON: Western powers fighting Islamist groups around the globe are condemned to a never-ending battle if they only tackle the symptoms and not the underlying causes of jihadist...
STRASBOURG: French President Emmanuel Macron visited Strasbourg yesterday, a day after police shot dead a gunman who killed four people at the city’s Christmas market, as investigators...
NEW DELHI: Eleven people have died after eating rice that had likely been contaminated with a toxic substance at a Hindu temple ceremony, a health official said Saturday.
