MOSCOW: Moscow yesterday slammed the arrest in the United States of a Russian national for conspiring to influence US politics saying it was intended…

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump insisted yesterday that his meeting with Vladimir Putin could prove successful, as he tries to quell fury in Washington after appearing to defer to the Russian leader over US intelligence chiefs, reports AFP. The Republican president claimed his meeting with Putin—who…

BEIRUT: Unidentified air strikes have killed 12 civilians in a rebel-held pocket of southern Syria as regime ally Russia presses talks for Damascus to retake the area, a monitor said yesterday, reports AFP. The deadly strikes late Tuesday hit Nawa, the last town under rebel control in the southern province…

CHIANG RAI: Twelve boys and their football coach who were rescued after being trapped for over a fortnight in a flooded Thai cave spoke publicly of their…

NEW DELHI: More than 100 Indian rescue workers were using steel cutters and drills yesterday to try and free those still feared trapped under the rubble…

BEIJING: Along a quiet residential street on the outer edges of Beijing, a yellow and black cube about the size of a small washing machine trundles leisurely…

BRUSSELS: European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said US efforts to split the EU on trade “are in vain,” in a message yesterday to…