Muslims in Asia protest against Trump’s Jerusalem planJAKARTA/KUALA LUMPUR: Several thousand protesters in Muslim-majority Indonesia and Malaysia rallied on Friday to condemn the US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, as authorities tigh...
World powers push Saudis, Iran to stop interfering in LebanonPARIS: World powers attempted to shore up Lebanon's stability on Friday by pushing Saudi Arabia and Iran to stop interfering in its politics and urging Hezbollah to rein in its regional activities. Le...
UN warns against any hasty returns of Rohingya to MyanmarGENEVA: Peace and stability must be restored in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state before any Rohingyas can return from Bangladesh, under international standards on voluntary repatriation, the United Na...
British foreign minister to visit Iran, lobby for jailed aid workerLONDON: British foreign minister Boris Johnson will travel to Iran on Saturday to lobby counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif for the release of jailed Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe....
‘All-consuming’ Brexit dictates and jeopardises May’s agendaAs politicians thrash out the terms of a Brexit deal with Brussels, civil servants in Britain are facing up to a mammoth administrative task that risks crowding out anything else. Members of the publi...
The last hours of Yemen’s SalehDUBAI: A day before they killed Yemen’s former president, gunmen from the Iran-aligned Houthi militia group overran one of Ali Abdullah Saleh’s fortified compounds in Sanaa. Ransacking the villa, they...
Rohingya widows find safe haven in Bangladesh campCOX’S BAZAR: Dawn hues of pink and purple reveal a dusty valley in Bangladesh’s southern hills quilted with a dense settlement of red tents home to more than 230 women and children grieving for lost h...
Congress slur on India’s Modi backfires ahead of key electionIndia’s opposition Congress was under fire Friday after a senior figure used a Hindi slur to describe Prime Minister Narendra Modi, forcing it into damage control mode ahead of a key state election. P...
Nepal begins counting votes for new provincial assembliesKATHMANDU: Election officials in Nepal on Friday began counting votes for national and provincial assemblies, the first time the Himalayan nation went to the polls to elect new federal units with the...
Japan plans long-range missiles amid North Korea threat: ministerJapan plans to purchase offensive air-to-surface missiles to counter North Korea’s rising military threat, its defence minister said Friday, a move likely to stir debate over its decades-long pacifist...
Gold trader Zarrab says he was threatened in jail for cooperating with USNEW YORK: A Turkish-Iranian gold trader testifying for US prosecutors in a criminal trial involving sanctions against Iran said on Thursday that he was removed from a New York federal jail after anoth...
Pacific’s Palau forces tourists to sign eco-pledgeVisitors to the tiny Pacific nation of Palau are being made to sign a promise to respect the environment, in an innovative move that authorities hope will curb ecological damage caused by booming numb...
Germany’s SPD says talks with Merkel’s conservatives to start WednesdayBERLIN: A senior member of Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) said on Friday her party would start exploratory talks on Wednesday with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives on forming a coalition, a...