A hard sell? Saudi crown prince goes West to woo alliesRIYADH/LONDON: Saudi Arabia’s crown prince wants to persuade his British and U.S. allies that “shock” reforms have made his country a better place to invest and a more tolerant society on his first fo...
China defends hike in military spending as proportionate and lowBEIJING: China's increase in military spending for 2018, the biggest rise in three years, was proportionate and low, and Beijing had not been goaded into an arms race with the United States, state med...
Wreckage found of WWII aircraft carrier USS LexingtonWreckage from the USS Lexington, a US aircraft carrier which sank during World War II, has been discovered in the Coral Sea, a search team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced Monday. The...
Bangladesh Islamic school burns students’ mobile phonesA hardline Islamic school in Bangladesh said Tuesday it had confiscated hundreds of mobile phones and torched them in a bonfire because they were distracting students from their learning. Pupils at th...
10 years on, Femen movement struggles to maintain momentumWhen four young Ukrainians banded together in 2008 to break the mould for protesting sexism and violence against women, they set off a wave of bare-breasted "sextremism" that eventually spread around...
Kim Jong Un and Seoul envoys discuss possible inter-Korean summitNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un discussed a possible summit with envoys from the South's President Moon Jae-in, both sides said Tuesday, in the latest step of an Olympics-driven rapprochement on the d...
‘Ethnic cleansing’ of Myanmar’s Rohingya continues: UNYANGON: Myanmar's "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims is continuing, a senior U.N. human rights official said on Tuesday, more than six months after insurgent attacks sparked a security response th...
Smell of coffee permeates streets of tea-obsessed KabulAfghans in need of a caffeine fix line up at Najibullah Sharyari's coffee cart in Kabul -- converts to the drink that is now percolating in a country obsessed with tea for centuries. Standing on a noi...
Russia offers rebels safe passage out of eastern GhoutaMOSCOW/BEIRUT: The Russian military has offered Syrian rebels safe passage out of eastern Ghouta, setting out a deal by which the opposition would surrender its last major stronghold near Damascus to...
Japan’s navy appoints first woman to command warship squadronTOKYO: Japan's navy on Tuesday appointed the first woman to command a warship squadron, including the flagship Izumo helicopter carrier, as it tries to lure more females to make up for a dearth of mal...
Wedding party truck accident kills 25 in IndiaAHMEDABAD, INDIA: A truck carrying a wedding party plunged off a bridge early Tuesday in western India killing at least 25 people, most of them women and children, officials said. Initial investigatio...
India leads global decline in child marriages: UNA significant drop in Indian girls being forced into marriage has led a global decline in the number of child brides, the United Nations said Tuesday. According to UN children's agency UNICEF, 25 mill...