BEIJING: Premier Li Keqiang said yesterday China’s constitution protects human rights after he was asked about Liu Xia, the widow…

BANGKOK: Thai police raided four Buddhist temples yesterday, arresting several prominent monks and worshippers in the year’s biggest such operation…

NEW YORK: Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to President Donald Trump and his son-in-law, has had his security clearance restored,…

DHAKA: Shootouts across Bangladesh left nine alleged drug dealers dead yesterday, police said, as authorities stepped up a crackdown that…

TUTICORIN, India: A protester shot during demonstrations against a copper plant in southern India died of his injuries yesterday, officials…

BEIRUT: Lebanese President Michel Aoun is expected to designate Sunni politician Saad al-Hariri as prime minister to form a new…

JERUSALEM: Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Thursday he would request approval from a planning committee for the building of 2,500…

BAGHDAD: Multiple people were killed or wounded in a suicide attack in Iraq’s capital Baghdad yesterday, Iraqi security services said. The…