Turkey tightens visa rules for Iraqi citizens ‘to fight illegal immigration’
ISTANBUL: Turkey has tightened its visa rules for Iraqi citizens as a sign of its “determination to fight illegal immigration,”…
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Spanish biodiesel plant blast kills two
MADRID: Two workers were killed and a third was seriously injured in an explosion at a biodiesel plant in eastern…
Taiwan powerful quake kills at least 7
6.4-magnitude tremor fells buildings where families gathered for Lunar New Year celebration in the early hours
Diplomatic ‘crisis’ over missing booksellers
HONG KONG/GUANGZHOU, China: For years Gui Minhai, a China-born publisher of tabloid books on China’s leaders, had believed he could…
New year, new travel: More Chinese choose tourism over tradition
BEIJING: While hundreds of millions of his Chinese compatriots pack into planes, trains, and automobiles to return to their ancestral…
No Malaysians affected by Taiwan quake
KUALA LUMPUR: No Malaysians were affected in the earthquake which struck the Pingtung region in Taiwan early today. International media…
Twitter suspends 125,000 terrorism related accounts
WASHINGTON: Twitter has suspended over 125,000 accounts, most of them linked to the Islamic State militant group, “for threatening or…
Kremlin monitoring Saudi Arabia’s plans to launch ground operation in Syria
MOSCOW: The Kremlin is monitoring Saudi Arabia plans to launch a ground operation in Syria, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told…