Damascus: Islamic State (IS) militants on Thursday launched a major offensive on northern Syria’s Hasaka city. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, intense clashes...
Pyongyang: North Korea on Thursday slammed the establishment of a UN human rights office in South Korea, which will monitor Pyongyang’s human rights performance. The Committee for...
Islamabad: The sale of toy guns has been banned in a district of Pakistan’s Punjab province after a policeman shot dead a teenage boy taking selfies with...
Hanoi: At least seven people were killed and four remained missing on Thursday in a typhoon in Vietnam. Typhoon Kujira made landfall in Vietnam on Wednesday...
Kathmandu: China and Japan on Thursday announced over $1 billion of aid to Nepal to reconstruct infrastructure after it was devastated by a series of quakes. At...
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin has extended the embargo on the import of a number of foreign goods for one more year. “The government addressed a letter...
Seoul: The number of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) cases in South Korea has risen to 180 after a fresh case was reported, authorities said on Thursday....
London: The Islamic State (IS) terror group has posted on the social media pictures of a series of gold coins which it claimed were the long...
Islamabad: Days after Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said that “our arms are not meant for decoration”, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday discussed the country’s nuclear,...
Ottawa: Canada is not immune to the threat of terrorism and so “continued vigilance is essential”, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said. Harper made the remarks on...