World

Syria scribe gets Mackler Award 23 Aug 2015 - 12:00 am

Washington: A Syria-based journalist who has trained citizen reporters in the war-ravaged country has been named the recipient of the 2015 Peter Mackler...

PKK attack kills Turkish army captain 23 Aug 2015 - 12:00 am

Istanbul: A soldier was killed in southeastern Turkey and a regional headquarters of the country’s ruling party hit by a bomb attack, in...

Refugees claim ‘fake’ Syrians trying to get across border 23 Aug 2015 - 12:00 am

A migrant reacts after been injured during clashes between Macedonian police forces and migrants trying to cross an illegal crossing point on the...

French train attacker ‘went to Syria’ 23 Aug 2015 - 12:00 am

US serviceman Spencer Stone waves as he departs the Clinique Lille Sud, which specialises in hand injuries, in Lesquin, France, yesterday. Arras: A...

Venezuela closes Colombia border 23 Aug 2015 - 12:00 am

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaking during a meeting with members of his cabinet in Caracas. Caracas/ BOGOTA: Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro indefinitely closed...

Obama declares wildfire emergency in Washington state 23 Aug 2015 - 12:00 am

A truck drives past a back burn on the Wolverine Fire near Holden Village, Washington. Los Angeles: President Barack Obama declared an emergency...

Yemeni civilians die amid fighting, air raids in Taez: Red Cross 22 Aug 2015 - 03:59 pm

Fighters loyal to Yemen's exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi stand on top of the Al-Qahira Castle in Taez on August 18, 2015, after...

India hires "Mr Turnaround" to fix loss-making Air India 22 Aug 2015 - 03:57 pm

NEW DELHI: India is betting on a former railway bureaucrat who styles himself as "Mr Turnaround" to fix the financial troubles of debt-burdened...

Blast heard in diplomatic quarter of afghan capital Kabul: Reuters witnesses 22 Aug 2015 - 03:10 pm

In this file photo an armed personnel, equped with bullet proof vest, can be seen in a street in Kabul's diplomatic area. KABUL:...

Two pilots killed when helicopter comes down on Saudi-Yemen border - coalition 22 Aug 2015 - 02:39 pm

Two pilots in the Saudi-led coalition were killed when their Apache helicopter came down on the border with Yemen on Friday, the coalition...

Macedonia struggles to ration entry of rain-soaked refugees 22 Aug 2015 - 02:20 pm

Syrian refugees sleep on rail tracks at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the village of Idomeni, August 22, 2015. GEVGELIJA (Macedonia), IDOMENI (Greece): Police...

North, South Korea officials meet at DMZ in bid to ease tension 22 Aug 2015 - 01:56 pm

South Korean soldiers sit on a military vehicle, just south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Yeoncheon, South Korea, August...

Iran unveils new missile, says seeks peace through strength 22 Aug 2015 - 01:44 pm

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani arrives for a bilateral meeting with Indonesia's President Joko Widodo on the sideline of the Asian African Conference in...

Egypt sentences Brotherhood leader to life imprisonment: judicial sources 22 Aug 2015 - 01:33 pm

Mohamed Badie, top leader of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, talks during a trial hearing alleging his involvement in a 2013 attack on a...

South, North Korea to hold talks to ease tension 22 Aug 2015 - 12:57 pm

South Korean soldiers talk next to barricades at a checkpoint on the Grand Unification Bridge which leads to the truce village Panmunjom, just...

Americans overpower gunman in French train attack 22 Aug 2015 - 10:49 am

Anthony Sadler, from Pittsburg, California, Aleck Sharlatos from Roseburg, Oregon, and Chris Norman, a British man living in France (L-R), three men who...

43 killed in Yemen air strikes 22 Aug 2015 - 01:40 am

Yemenis wait to fill jerrycans with water from a donated source amid ongoing widespread disruption of water supplies, in Sana’a, yesterday. SANA’A: Iranian-allied...