Timor-Leste president dissolves parliament for new elections
DILI: East Timor President Francisco “Lu Olo” Guterres said on Friday he was dissolving parliament and would call new elections in a bid to end a prolonged political impasse in the tiny…
DILI: East Timor President Francisco “Lu Olo” Guterres said on Friday he was dissolving parliament and would call new elections in a bid to end a prolonged political impasse in the tiny…
SEOUL: Female hockey players from the rival Koreas were paired up with each other Thursday to form their first-ever Olympic squad during next month’s Pyeongchang Winter Games, as their countries press ahead…
YEMEN: A senior al Qaeda leader has called on Muslims “everywhere” to rise up and kill Jews and Americans in response to US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s…
BAGHDAD: Turkey and Iraq are in talks for a joint operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) presence in the Sinjar province of Iraq, the Turkish foreign minister has said, as…
SEOUL: South Koreans seem generally happy looking for the North Koreans at their Olympics, but aren’t as pleased about sharing a team with them. The agreement between the war-separated rivals to field…
RAMALLAH: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees faces its worst funding crisis ever after the United States froze tens of millions of dollars in contributions, its spokesman said on Wednesday. “The US…
ST PETERSBURG: The Priozersky City Court in Russia’s Leningrad region has sentenced priest Gleb Grozovsky to 14 years in a high-security penal colony for molesting children in camps organized by the Russian…
DUBAI: Saudi security forces shot and killed a man suspected of involvement in “terrorist crimes” in an exchange of fire in the eastern part of the kingdom, state news agency SPA reported…
HONG KONG: Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong, 21, was sentenced to a second jail term of three months on Wednesday for what a judge described as his “leading” role during some…
WASHINGTON: A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer was arrested at a US airport on Monday night in connection with charges that he illegally retained highly classified information, the US Justice Department…
BEIJING: The Chinese government said on Wednesday that it does not need Taiwan’s permission to open new air routes, after Taipei complained that a new route over the narrow Taiwan Strait that…
JEDDAH: For years Areej al-Ghamdi could only cheer her favourite football team from home, but everything changed on Friday when Saudi Arabia allowed women into the stadium for the first time. The…
WASHINGTON: There is a slim chance of the first death-row Indian-American prisoner being executed on the scheduled date of February 23 because of a 2015 moratorium on the death penalty by Pennsylvania…
LONDON: Nigel Farage’s surprise call for Britain to prepare for a second EU referendum has ignited hopes among anti-Brexit campaigners that both sides of the debate will back a poll on Theresa…
KARACHI: Police claimed to have recovered a newborn baby girl and arrested two women, allegedly involved in her kidnapping on Wednesday. According to SSP South Javed Akbar Riaz, The newborn daughter of…
MIAMI: Last year was the most expensive in US history for natural disasters, with a series of fires and hurricanes that cost $306 billion, according to a US government report Monday. A…
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Lahore Women Wing President and Punjab Assembly Member (MPA) Faiza Malik on Tuesday urged the Punjab government to hold the local bodies (LB) elections as early as possible…