London: Ships carrying Chinese troops are heading to Djibouti to set up Beijing's first overseas military base, reports state media. China says the support base will be used for peacekeeping and humanitarian aid in Africa and West Asia, reports BBC. It will also be used for military co-operation,…

PARIS: A trillion-tonne iceberg, one of the largest ever recorded, has snapped off the West Antarctic ice shelf, scientists who have monitored the growing…

GENEVA: Aung San Suu Kyi's government in Myanmar risks getting bracketed with "pariah states" like North Korea and Syria over its refusal to grant visas to a UN team investigating the plight of Rohingya Muslims, activists said Wednesday, reports AFP. The civilian government of the Nobel…

CAIRO: Egypt and Morocco's airlines have said a ban against carry-on laptops on US-bound flights has been lifted, leaving only two Saudi airports under the restrictions put in place in March, reports AFP. Morocco's Royal Air Maroc said in a statement Wednesday that the ban, imposed amid fears…

BEIJING: China's cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo suffered respiratory failure as his condition worsened on Wednesday, his hospital said, as Germany offered to host him and rights groups decried the lack of independent information, reports AFP. The First Hospital of China Medical University…

ANKARA: Turkish police on Wednesday killed five suspected Islamic State group jihadists in the central Turkish province of Konya, the governor's office said, reports AFP. "During the operation, the five terrorists were neutralised after they resisted armed force, and four security forces were…

JENIN: Two Palestinians were shot dead during clashes with the Israeli army in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, Palestinian medical and security sources said, reports AFP. One of the two had been evacuated in serious condition and later succumbed to his wounds, medical…