BEIJING: China has designated a special day for farmers to celebrate the annual harvest, the first festival created by the state specifically for the country's farmers. "The Chinese farmers' harvest…
CHESTER-LE-STREET (UK): Australia captain Tim Paine won the toss and elected to bat in the fourth one-day international against England at Chester-le-Street on Thursday. Paine opted to field first in the third…
WARSAW: Poland on Thursday warned that a eurozone budget proposed by France and Germany to bolster the 19-member currency bloc could spell the end of the European Union should it drain resources…
OTTAWA: Canada will legalize the consumption and cultivation of cannabis from October 17, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday. Both houses of parliament voted this week to legalize the drug for recreational use,…
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump ordered an end to the separation of migrant children from their parents on the US border Wednesday, reversing a tough policy under heavy pressure from his fellow…
KIEV: Ambassadors said Thursday they were deeply concerned about Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who has been on hunger strike for more than a month as he serves a 20-year term in a…
LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May's government saw off a rebellion by her pro-European MPs on Wednesday after making further concessions over parliament's role in the final Brexit deal. MPs in the House…
WASHINGTON: US lawmakers will vote Thursday on a bill that would end the practice of separating migrant children from parents caught entering the country without papers, House Speaker Paul Ryan said Wednesday. "We…
TEHRAN: Iran has "no need to join," global agreements on areas such as terrorism and money laundering, the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday as the issue divides parliament. Describing…
OTTAWA: US President Donald Trump's trade threats and bellicose diplomacy are being met on America's northern frontier with boycotts of US goods and travel, and even a call for nuclearization. The…
MESEBERG: France's President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday won German Chancellor Angela Merkel's backing for reforms aimed at bolstering the eurozone against crises, including a vaunted budget for the bloc. But its size remains…
PARIS: President Donald Trump's policy of separating migrants entering the US from Mexico from their children shows that the United States and Europe do not share the same "model of…
GAZA: Israeli warplanes pounded Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday in a new flare-up of hostilities that saw dozens of rockets and mortar shells fired from the Palestinian…
HERAT: Taliban fighters killed around 30 Afghan security forces in multiple attacks in western Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, two days after the group ended its ceasefire. "More than half of…
BEIJING: Kim Jong Un concluded a two-day whirlwind visit to China Wednesday, where he declared North Korea's unstinting "friendship" with Beijing in a show of loyalty to his main ally following a…
PARIS: The United States - facing massive controversy over immigration - received more asylum requests than any other developed nation in 2017, overtaking Germany, the OECD said in a report…
INCHEON: A local court on Wednesday sentenced the captain of a Chinese fishing boat to one year and six months in prison for operating illegally in South Korea's western territorial waters in…
QUETTA: The 5th Pak-Iran Permanent Border Committee Meeting Wednesday started in the Iranian city Zahedan. The Pak-Iran mutual border affairs, security issues, trade activities in villages located at the border would be…
ADDIS ABABA: Eritrea's president broke weeks of silence on Wednesday to respond positively to conciliatory overtures from bitter foe Ethiopia, raising hopes of a fresh start in the Horn of Africa. A brutal,…
BAGHDAD: Iraq's biggest tribe has appealed for weapons to defend itself against the Islamic State jihadist group after several of its members were abducted and killed in a central desert…
BRUSSEL: Several key EU leaders will hold crisis talks on migration in Brussels on Sunday to try to find answers ahead of a major summit next week, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker…
SEOUL: A group of South Korean government officials and civilians crossed into the North Korea border town of Kaesong Wednesday for the second day in a row to work on repairs for…
MOSCOW: Russian airline Red Wings on Wednesday made its maiden flight to Iraq as commercial services between Moscow and Baghdad resume following the 2003 Iraqi War. The Airbus 320 took off at 1.30am Moscow…
MANHATTAN: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has voiced his regret over Tuesday's U.S. decision to pull out of UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) after accusing the 47-member, the Geneva-based body of a…
