GWANGJU, South Korea: Prosecutors yesterday demanded the death penalty for the captain of the South Korean ferry that sank in…

TOKYO: Chinese defence officials are meeting a Japanese delegation in Beijing this week for informal talks on preventing simmering territorial…

MURSITPINAR, Turkey: Kurdish forces have thwarted a new attempt by Islamic State group fighters to cut off the Syrian town…

KARACHI, Pakistan: Taliban militants have long been the scourge of Pakistan’s polio vaccination campaign, attacking aid workers and the police…

BRAS LIA: Brazil’s newly re-elected President Dilma Rousseff faced huge challenges to govern the sprawling South American country after winning…

OTTAWA: Top Canadian security officials were to testify yesterday before a parliamentary committee about threats facing the nation in the…

KIEV: Pro-Europe parties secured a big win in an election in Ukraine, a partial vote count showed yesterday, with President…

LAGOS: Boko Haram has used kidnapped young women and girls on the front lines of its insurgency, according to a…