WASHINGTON: Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham revealed on Monday that he has tested positive for COVID-19 despite being vaccinated, has f...

YANGON: Myanmar’s junta chief said Sunday that elections would be held and a state of emergency lifted by August 2023, extending the militar...

ISTANBUL: The death toll from wildfires on Turkey’s southern coast rose to eight on Sunday as firefighters battled for a fifth day to contai...

Heavy monsoon rains triggered landslides and flash floods in refugees camps displacing thousands of Rohingya Muslims in southeastern Banglad...

BRUSSELS: The southern Belgian town of Dinant was hit by the heaviest floods in decades on Saturday after a two-hour thunderstorm turned str...

RIYADH: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has Sunday announced the resumption of the Umrah pilgrimage starting the first of the Islamic month Muha...

A family was rescued by Indian police from a tent house in pathetic conditions where they had confined themselves for almost 15 months in an...

BERLIN: A relief official dampened hopes on Wednesday of finding more survivors in the rubble of villages devastated by floods in western Ge...

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden nominated lawyer Jonathan Kanter as the Justice Department’s antitrust chief on Tuesday in the latest sign t...

LONDON: A complaint has been filed against Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) vice-president Maryam Nawaz at London police station for del...

RIYADH: The Saudi General Directorate of Passports (Jawazat) has on Tuesday started extending the validity of residency permit (iqama) and e...

The delegations of the Afghan government and Taliban issued a joint statement on Sunday saying that they will meet again and that they have ...

ERFTSTADT, Germany: The death toll in devastating flooding in western Germany and Belgium rose to at least 170 on Saturday after burst river...

President Vladimir Putin in June offered U.S. counterpart Joe Biden the use of Russian military bases in Central Asia for information gather...

MUSCAT: Oman has extended its total all-day lockdown during the Eidul Azha holidays, beginning from July 20 which is the first day of the Ei...

SCHULD/ERFTSTADT, Germany: German officials feared more deaths on Friday after “catastrophic” floods swept through western regions, demolish...

An Italian drug trafficker has used a light single-propeller plane to drop a shipment of cocaine, however, the plan went wrong as the bag pa...

A surge of coronavirus cases in several Middle Eastern countries could have dire consequences, aggravated by the spread of the Delta variant...

GENEVA: The World Health Organization’s chief scientist on Monday advised against people mixing and matching COVID-19 vaccines from differen...

LONDON: Britain’s government said it would let parliament hold a vote on Tuesday to reverse a decision to cut the country’s overseas aid spe...