COLOMBO: Most Sri Lankan businesses and schools were closed, and public transport was interrupted on Thursday as workers joined a general strike calling for...
KYIV: Russian strikes slammed into central Kyiv on Thursday as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was visiting, wounding three in the first such attack on...
KABUL: Two bomb blasts aboard separate minibuses killed at least nine people Thursday in Afghanistan's Mazar-i-Sharif, police said, a week after a deadly explosion...
PARIS: Social reforms taking place in Saudi Arabia are "impressive," Vice-President of the France-Saudi Parliamentary Friendship Group and LREM MP Amelia Lakrafi has told...
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden will ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to help Ukraine fend off the Russian invasion, two administration officials said...
MOGADISHU: Somalia's parliament elected a veteran politician as speaker of the lower house on Thursday, as the fragile nation edges closer to holding a...
MANILA, Philippines: An old, earthquake-damaged bridge collapsed under heavy traffic in a central Philippine town, sending about a dozen vehicles plummeting into the river...
