AFP, DOHA: Almost 60 percent of Qatar’s 2.4 million population live in what the government calls “labour camps”, figures from an April 2015 census showed Sunday, highlighting the issue of the emirate’s huge migrant workforce. The figures from the Ministry of Development Planning…

AFP, PARIS: The prime minister of Libya’s UN-backed unity government has ruled out an international military intervention to fight the Islamic State group, which has had a growing presence in the country since 2014. Some 25 nations including the United States and Russia agreed last month to help…

AFP, RIYADH: The Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels in Yemen rejected on Sunday a UN report that placed it on an annual blacklist over the deaths of hundreds of children in air strikes. “The report is imbalanced and does not rely on credible statistics, nor does it serve the Yemeni people,”…

AFP, TEHRAN: Tehran on Sunday dismissed its renewed blacklisting by Washington as a state sponsor of terrorism charging that it was US allies including Riyadh that were the real culprits. The Iranian foreign ministry noted its role in neighbouring Iraq supporting the government against the Islamic State…

AFP SINGAPORE:  An Asian security summit ended in discord Sunday after China denounced US “provocations” in the South China Sea and declared it does not fear trouble in the contested waters. “The South China Sea issue has become overheated because of the provocations of certain…

AFP, LOUISVILLE: Some say they have lost a father figure. In front of Muhammad Ali’s modest family home in Louisville, friends and fans on Saturday…

AFP, SEOUL: North Korea hit back at the United States on Sunday for labelling it a money-laundering state, describing it as a “nonsensical” effort that only revealed the flaws of existing sanctions pushed by Washington. The US on Wednesday branded Pyongyang a “global money laundering…