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Edward Snowden accepts political asylum in Venezuela: top lawmaker

MOSCOW: US whistleblower Edward Snowden, who has been holed up in a Moscow airport for more than two weeks, has accepted an offer of...

US trying to hide Osama bin Laden raid files

WASHINGTON: The United States government is reportedly moving to hide files about the military’s suspected raid on al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in 2011. “The...

Taliban office in Doha temporarily closed after the removal of Taliban flag: sources

ISLAMABAD: The Afghan Taliban are closing their Qatar office at least temporarily to protest demands they remove a sign that identified the movement as...

53 injured in car bomb blast in southern Beirut

BEIRUT: A powerful car bomb blast occurred in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Tuesday that left at least 53 persons...

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood rejects interim president’s plan for elections

CAIRO: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has rejected a plan by Interim President Adli Mansour to hold new presidential elections. Mansour’s decree set a timetable for a...

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood calls for ‘uprising’

CAIRO: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood on Monday called for 'uprising' after at least 35 of its supporters were shot dead outside an army headquarters in the...

Mali lifts state of emergency ahead of presidential polls

BAMAKO: The West African state of Mali has lifted a five-month-old state of emergency, the moves comes on the eve of the start of...

Pakistan welcomes Chinese, foreign investment: PM

SHANGHAI: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Saturday that the present government in Pakistan is pro-business and pro-investment friendly regime which would welcome the...

Militants kill 29 students, teacher in attack on Nigerian school

POTISKUM, Nigeria: At least 29 students and a teacher were killed in an attack by militants on a boarding school in northeast Nigeria before...

Three policemen killed in blast in Yemeni capital

ADEN: Three policemen were killed and two others injured when a roadside bomb hidden in a plastic bag exploded in the Yemeni capital Sanaa...

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