PARIS: Top French officials were to appear for fresh hearings yesterday over the rogue security aide scandal which has engulfed…

ATHENS: At least 79 people died in huge wildfires around Athens, Greek authorities said yesterday, as rescuers scoured scorched homes and…

NEW DELHI: India has proposed a ban on plastics, polluting factories and construction around its 17th-century monument to love, the Taj…

BEIRUT: A string of Islamic State group attacks, including suicide blasts, killed at least 54 people in southern Syria yesterday…

ATTAPEU, Laos: Rescuers recovered 19 bodies and hundreds remain missing after a dam collapse swamped several villages in southern Laos, as…

SEOUL: The South Korean partner in a Laos hydropower dam said Wednesday it discovered the upper part of the…

WASHINGTON: Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega insisted he will serve out his term until 2021, defying protesters demanding his resignation in…

MANILA: Each night, police in teams of about a dozen fan out across the most rundown areas of the Philippine…