KIEV: Moscow promised on Saturday (Dec 27) to resume shipping coal and provide electricity to Ukraine for the first time…

Exchange of 222 guerrillas and 145 Ukrainian troops part of new push for peace

WASHINGTON: Former US president George HW Bush is spending a fourth night at a Texas hospital Friday after experiencing breathing…

TAIPEI: A hippo that panicked while being transported by truck in Taiwan jumped from the vehicle, breaking a leg and…

NEW YORK: A woman in Philadelphia got an unexpected holiday surprise on the subway when she went into labour, delivering…

YANGON: Residents of Myanmar’s commercial hub Yangon went to the polls yesterday for the first municipal elections in six decades,…

BAGHDAD: The Islamic State (IS) group on Friday (Dec 26) claimed it carried out a suicide bombing south of Baghdad…

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Pakistani security forces have killed a Taliban commander who allegedly facilitated the Peshawar school massacre, which left 150…