GEORGE TOWN: Police are looking for V. Hemasekar, suspected of involvement in kidnapping a Bangladeshi last Monday. Northeast district police…
DUSHANBE: Two Tajiks recruited by the militant group Islamic State planned to assassinate President Imomali Rakhmon last year, a court…
ANKARA/ISTANBUL: Ahmet Davutoglu announced on Thursday that he was stepping down as leader of Turkey’s ruling AK Party and therefore…
SARIJALY: A ceasefire between Azerbaijan and its breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region may have stopped a short conflict becoming an all-out war…
PYONGYANG: The Pyongyang skyline is rising - and not just with the trophy structures that represent the North Korean state.…
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s main Maoist party that props up the fragile coalition said on Thursday it had abandoned efforts to form…
CALGARY: Fire raged unchecked through the Canadian city of Fort McMurray overnight as authorities raced to complete the evacuation of…
SINGAPORE/DHAKA: Eight Bangladeshi men held in Singapore for allegedly plotting attacks in their homeland had formed a terrorist cell that…
MOSCOW: Russia will take retaliatory measures if NATO deploys four extra battalions in Poland and the Baltic states and it…
WADI EL-QATTAFI: For a brief time, Jordan’s eastern desert blooms. The dozens of mesas commanding the bleak horizons are now…