Seoul: Five new Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) cases were reported in South Korea on Monday, taking the total to 150, authorities said. The health ministry said...
New Delhi: Surreptitiously reading translations of Sherlock Holmes and other detective fiction as a student amid the Cultural Revolution’s turbulence, Chinese poet and academician Qiu Xiaolong had...
Brussels: Negotiations between Greece and its creditors have ended without reaching a deal, a European Commission spokesman said. The spokesman said there remained wide differences between Greece’s...
Asuncion: Nearly 30,000 people have been affected by the flooding here in Paraguay, officials said. The floods were caused by a rise in the level of the...
Washington: The US military has launched an airstrike in Libya, killing a leader of Ansar al-Shariah, an offshoot of the Al Qaeda. “We are assessing the results...
Kabul: A Taliban shadow provincial governor was killed along with 14 militants in an airstrike in Afghanistan’s Kunar province on Sunday, an official said. “Based on...
Nairobi: Eleven Al Shabaab militants, including two fighters of Caucasian origin, were killed on Sunday during an attack at a military camp in Lamu county in...
Seoul: North Korea fired three short-range missiles into the East Sea on Sunday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. North Korea “fired three KN-01...
Havana: A delegation of United States’ Republican senators met with Cuban First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez and discussed bilateral relations and...
San Juan: Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner has dismissed calls by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Legal Affairs Minister Prakash Ramadhar for him to accept extradition...