To meet its growing electricity needs in its drive to develop oil resources in remote Arctic regions, Russia has built…

North Korea has demanded Seoul repatriate a dozen waitresses who fled to the South two years ago, just days after…

HAVANA: Cuba begins two days of national mourning yesterday for victims of the crash of a state airways plane that…

SHANGHAI: China’s defence ministry has called on armed groups in northern Myanmar to show restraint and declare an immediate ceasefire…

WASHINGTON: US Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed a key assistant of long-time Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone, two people…

AHMEDABAD, India: A truck overturned in India yesterday killing 19 labourers who were crushed under cement sacks that fell from…

CARACAS: Nine prisoners and two guards were killed during a riot in a prison in the western Venezuelan state of…

ISTANBUL: A summit in Istanbul of Muslim heads of state on Friday called for the creation of an international peacekeeping…