German Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday an alleged toxic gas attack blamed on Damascus showed that President Bashar al-Assad's regime failed…

French President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday that he would respond to "proof" that the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had used…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday said Turkey was worried by the "arm wrestling" of world powers over Syria, adding he will discuss with…

GHAZNI: Taliban militants launched a pre-dawn raid on a district government compound in Afghanistan yesterday, killing at least seven people including the local governor, officials said, reports AFP. Six police also died and 10 intelligence officers were wounded in the attack on the Khwaja Omari district…

PYONGYANG: The United Nations was able to help barely 15 percent of the North Koreans it aimed to support with basic food needs last year, its top official in Pyongyang said yesterday, as donor funding dried up in the face of political tensions, reports AFP. The implementation of UN Security Council…

BANDA ACEH: Indonesia’s Aceh province will stop whipping criminals in public after a wave of international condemnation of the practice, local officials said yesterday, reports AFP. The conservative region on Sumatra island—the only place in Muslim-majority Indonesia that follows Islamic…

BEIJING: International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde warned China yesterday about saddling other countries with a "problematic increase in debt" through its ambitious global trade infrastructure project. Lagarde made the comments at a Beijing forum on Chinese President Xi Jinping's…

HARARE: Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe has yet to move out of an official residence in Harare five months after he was ousted from power, an official said yesterday, reports AFP. Presidential spokesman George Charamba said Mugabe had still had not removed his belongings from Zimbabwe…