South Korea yesterday slammed Japan for effectively downgrading Seoul’s trade status and accused Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of treating the neighbour…

A woman who accused the late financier Jeffrey Epstein of sex abuse and alleged she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew as a 17-year-old has urged the UK royal to “come clean”. Speaking after a hearing for alleged victims in the wake of Epstein’s death, Virginia Giuffre told…

The US and the Taliban are “close” to reaching an agreement for a deal that would see the Pentagon slash its troop numbers in Afghanistan, a spokesman for the insurgents said yesterday. The two foes have been meeting in Doha in recent days to put the final touches on a historic deal that…

Air raids hit near a Turkish military post in northwest Syria yesterday, a war monitor said, after Ankara vowed to take necessary steps to protect its…

Ukraine yesterday released a Russian state media journalist pending his trial for “high treason”, as the two countries discuss potential prisoner…

Iran yesterday hanged in public a man convicted of murdering the leader of main weekly prayers in the southern city of Kazeroun, state news agency IRNA said. Hamid Reza Derakhshandeh was executed at the scene where he killed the cleric on May 29, IRNA reported, citing the chief justice of Fars province,…