World

Cairo: An Egyptian politician emerged just ahead of a deadline on Monday as the sole challenger to President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in an election in March...

Berlin: The leader of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) played down hopes on Monday for swift progress in coalition talks with Chancellor Angela...

Moscow: The Kremlin said on Monday it did not regard opposition leader Alexei Navalny as a political threat to the upcoming presidential election and that...

Addis Ababa: The leaders of Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan on Monday set a one-month deadline for laying out the ways to break a deadlock in talks over a mega...

Manila: An online news platform critical of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday asked the Court of Appeals to set aside the corporate...

Gaza: Schools, clinics and food distribution centres in the Gaza Strip were closed on Monday due to a one-day strike by the 13,000 employees of the United...

London: British Prime Minister Theresa May came under further pressure over her Brexit blueprint on Monday, with members of the upper house of parliament...

Prague: Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis will negotiate with the Social Democrats and the Communists to form a new government after parliament rejected his...

Hong Kong: A group of Hong Kong lawyers on Monday condemned a ban on a democracy activist by the territory's government to prevent her from contesting a...

Geneva: More than 100,000 Rohingya refugees huddled in squalid, muddy camps in Bangladesh will be in grave danger from landslides when the mid-year monsoon...