Region

  • Region

US questions Indian plans for Iran’s Chabahar port

WASHINGTON: US Senators questioned on Tuesday whether India’s development of a port in southern Iran for trade access risked violating…

9 years ago
  • Region

Afghan Taliban meet on succession as Obama confirms leader’s death

KABUL: Senior Afghan Taliban figures met on Monday to agree on a successor to Mullah Akhtar Mansour, the leader of…

9 years ago
  • Region

World leaders, NGOs discuss humanitarian aid response

ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged on Monday that the burden of responding to the world’s crises be more…

9 years ago
  • Region

Turkey shifts to presidential system, even without constitutional change

ANKARA: As Turkey’s incoming prime minister prepares to name his new cabinet, there is little doubt that its primary role…

9 years ago
  • Region

Netanyahu rejects French peace initiative, offers to meet Abbas

PARIS: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a multilateral French peace initiative as he met his French counterpart on Monday,…

9 years ago
  • Region

Blaze at Thai school for poor hill-tribe girls kills 17

WIANG PA PAO DISTRICT: Fire swept through a school for girls from poor hill-tribe families in Thailand, killing at least…

9 years ago
  • Region

Zika crisis fuelled by ‘massive’ mosquito control failures: WHO chief

The spiralling crisis surrounding the Zika virus is the result of decades of policy failures on mosquito control and poor…

9 years ago
  • Region

Insect poop threatens to damage marble at Taj Mahal

LUCKNOW: Swarms of insects breeding in a polluted river near the Taj Mahal are threatening the intricate marble inlay work…

9 years ago
  • Region

Sri Lanka floods expected to cost at least $1.5 billion

COLOMBO: The cost of Sri Lanka’s landslides and floods will be between $1.5 billion and $2 billion at the minimum,…

9 years ago
  • Region

One Rohingya Muslim shot dead in mass escape from Thai detention centre

BANGKOK: Thai police shot dead a Rohingya Muslim from Myanmar on Monday during a dramatic mass escape of detainees from…

9 years ago