WASHINGTON: The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been authorized to continue its secret collection of phone records of all citizens of the country.
The...
HANOI: An explosion occurred at a fireworks factory in a military complex around 120 kilometres (75 miles) north of Vietnam’s capital Hanoi, killing at...
PALERMO: A boat carrying more than 200 migrants has capsized between Sicily and Tunisia, killing at least 27 persons, the Italian coastguard said.
The officials...
MOSCOW: Syrian militants are being trained in Afghanistan about how to use chemical weapons by a number of countries, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...
OSLO: The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for ‘extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons’.
The...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama and House of Representatives Republicans failed to reach a consensus finding a way forward to break their deadlock over...
STOCKHOLM: The 82-year-old Canadian Alice Munro won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for her short stories that focus on the frailties...
TRIPOLI: Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has been released, hours after he was kidnapped by a rebel-controlled Interior Ministry, state-run news agency said.
Earlier in...
