Report praises SCO as model for international cooperationBEIJING: A report, published by Chinese think tanks, praised the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) as a model for cooperation among countries with different political systems. The report on the...
Florida undersea memorial to honour lost US submarinersAlmost exactly 50 years ago, the USS Scorpion became the last U.S. submarine to be lost at sea when it disappeared while on patrol in the North Atlantic in 1968, with the nearly 100 officers and crew...
In Mosul, young volunteers help bring city back to lifeA group of Iraqi university students have found a cause in the ruins of Mosul. They are salvaging what is left of its rich heritage, clearing rubble and distributing aid in a city crying out for help...
Polish disabled protesters call off sit-in in parliamentYoung disabled Poles have called off their sit-in protest in the Polish parliament after 40 days of sleeping on its floor in a bid to persuade the right-wing government to boost their meagre living al...
Oman advises Dhofar businesses to close after cyclone hitsOman on Sunday advised all private sector establishments in Dhofar region to shut down for three days after Cyclone Mekunu hit the southern part of the Gulf Arab country, causing extensive damage that...
Two Palestinians killed by Israeli forcesIsraeli tank fire at an Islamic Jihad observation post killed two militants from the group in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian officials said. The Gazan health ministry identified those...
‘26 Syria regime, 9 Russia fighters killed in IS attack’At least 26 Syrian regime forces and nine Russian fighters were killed in an Islamic State group attack earlier this week in Syria's eastern desert, a monitor said Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for H...
PTI will field strong candidates in 2018 elections, Imran tells city’s business communityKARACHI: Speaking at a meeting with the business community on Sunday Pakistan Tehreek-i- Insaf (PTI) Chairperson Imran Khan said that the PTI was going to launch strong candidates in the upcoming gene...
Fight for the rights of South Punjab has just startedKARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM-PIB) Chairperson Farooq Sattar, while addressing a protest rally in Liaquatabad on Sunday, said that the fight for the rights of South Punjab had just started. S...
Federal govt yet to release Rs166 bn to Sindh, says MuradKARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah, while addressing a ceremony on Sunday, said that the center still had not released Rs166 billion to the provincial government. "Development is i...
Exam timings revised owing to heatwave alertKARACHI: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) on Sunday changed the timing of examinations owing to an expected heatwave in the metropolis in the coming week. A notification was is...
Bilawal congratulates Pakistan team on Lord’s victoryPakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has extended felicitations to the Pakistani cricket team on winning the Test Match at Lords against England on Sunday. In a statement, the...
Colombia presidential vote poses test for FARC peace dealColombians vote Sunday in a divisive presidential election likely to impact on the government's fragile peace deal with the former rebel movement FARC. Conservative front-runner Ivan Duque has vowed t...
France weighs how to return Africa’s plundered artHalf-man, half-beast, the tall African statues dominate a busy gallery in Paris' Quai Branly museum. But few of the visitors are aware they are looking at what might be considered stolen goods. The th...
Troubled exhibits: five disputed museum treasuresEurope's museums are full of items taken from Africa during colonisation, but many other objects on their shelves also carry an uncomfortable history. Here are five examples of historic artefacts whic...
Libyan rivals set for crunch Paris talks to break political deadlockLibyan rivals will meet on Tuesday in Paris to agree on a political roadmap that aims to resolve disputed issues to pave the way for U.N.-backed elections this year. UN Special Representative Ghassan...
Former Japanese PM Nakasone turns 100, urges constitutional revisionFormer Japanese prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, a World War Two naval officer and one of Japan's longest-serving premiers, marked his 100th birthday on Sunday with a call to revise the nation's post...
Air strike kills 4 in Yemen rebel-held capitalA woman was among four people killed in an air strike that hit a petrol station in Yemen's rebel-held capital late Saturday, medical sources said. Eleven people were wounded in the air strike on Sanaa...
LA’s people walker is beating loneliness, one step at a timeChuck McCarthy's walking service provides fresh air, exercise and companionship for $30 an hour -- but peeing on trees is an absolute no-no. The Los Angeles-based entrepreneur works with humans, not a...
‘Our families would be killed’: Rohingya brace for monsoonMarooned on a dusty slope in the world's largest refugee camp, Osiur Rahman looked to the hill where a Rohingya girl was buried in a landslide just days earlier and contemplated his chances should the...
Zangbeto: voodoo saviour of Benin’s mangrovesIn a wooden canoe on the waters of the Mono River in southwest Benin, a strange cone-shaped effigy in purple raffia and topped with horns sails back and forth through the mangroves. The Zangbeto -- th...
Morocco boycott revives debate over business, politics linksMore than a month after its launch, an unprecedented boycott campaign in Morocco against three well-known brands has revived criticism against links between the country's business and political elite....
Italy president under pressure to accept eurosceptic ministerItaly's would-be coalition parties turned up the pressure on President Sergio Mattarella on Saturday to endorse their eurosceptic pick as economy minister, saying the only other option may be a new el...
US missionary home after two years behind bars in VenezuelaAmerican missionary Josh Holt, held by Venezuela without trial on weapons charges since 2016, returned home with his wife on Saturday after the South American country's socialist government unexpected...