MANDALAY: A curfew was put in place in the Myanmar’s second largest city of Mandalay to bring the situation under control after sectarian conflict...
YANGON: At least two persons were killed on Thursday during communal violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Mandalay city of Myanmar, a country shaken...
BEIJING: The Chinese authorities on Wednesday imposed a ban on Muslims in the northwestern province of Xinjiang from fasting during the holy month of...
ANKARA: The incumbent Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been nominated by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) as its candidate for...
KIEV: Ukraine has launched a full-scale military operation against pro-Russia separatists in the east, hours after a ceasefire ended between the two sides.
The government...
KIEV: The Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has announced an end to a unilateral ceasefire with pro-Russian separatists in the eastern regions of Donetsk and...
MOSCOW: A helicopter with 17 people on board including 13 passengers and four crew members crashed in Russia’s far eastern Khabarovsk region on Monday,...
PYONGYANG: North Korea will indict and try two detained US tourists for crimes against the state, country's official news agency reported on Monday.
The cases...
BANGKOK: The leader of Thailand military junta General Prayuth Chan-ocha has announced that the country’s parliamentary elections will be held in October next year.
In...
MOSCOW: The Russian State Duma Chairman Sergey Naryshkin said on Friday that Russia attaches importance to its relations with Pakistan and wants to further...
