Chinese investment bank shares plunge as CEO goes missing
BEIJING: China Renaissance Holdings Ltd (1911.HK) saw its shares plummet by as much as 50% on Friday after the investment bank said...
US rioters sought to ‘capture and assassinate’ lawmakers at Capitol: prosecutors
US prosecutors now believe supporters of President Donald Trump planned to “capture and assassinate elected officials” in their siege of the Capitol...
Fire destroys 500 houses in Bangladesh Rohingya camp
DHAKA: More than 2,000 Rohingya refugees in a camp in Bangladesh were left homeless Thursday after a blaze ripped through over 500 shacks...
Donald Trump impeached by US House for second time
WASHINGTON: Outgoing US president Donald Trump achieved a rare feat on Wednesday as he became the first president to be impeached twice,...
57 killed in deadliest Israeli strikes on Syria in years: monitor
Israeli raids targeting arms depots and military positions in eastern Syria killed 57 regime loyalists, in the deadliest such strikes since the...
Indian farmers burn legislation in show of defiance
GHAZIABAD: Indian farmers burnt copies of the government’s new agricultural laws on Wednesday, pressing on with their protest against the reforms despite...
Kuwait’s cabinet submits resignation in standoff with parliament
DUBAI: Kuwait’s Prime Minister Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah presented the resignation of his cabinet to the country’s ruler on Wednesday, days before the...
‘Safest place in Washington’ no more. A reporter’s disbelief
WASHINGTON: I still can’t stop watching the videos.
There are so many of them, each with new clues about what happened a week...
Indonesia confident on finding second ‘black box’ of crashed plane
JAKARTA: Indonesian divers believe they are close to finding the cockpit voice recorder of a Sriwijaya Air jet that plunged into the...
Telegraph co-owner David Barclay dies at 86 after short illness
LONDON: British billionaire and The Telegraph co-owner David Barclay has died after a short illness aged 86, the newspaper said late on...
Israel’s Netanyahu removes Trump from his Twitter banner photo
TEL AVIV: Israel Prime Benjamin Netanyahu dropped US President Donald Trump from the banner photo of his Twitter account on Tuesday in...
India’s top court suspends implementation of new farm laws
NEW DELHI: India’s top court on Tuesday temporarily put on hold the implementation of new agricultural laws and ordered the formation of...
Indonesia uses unmanned undersea vehicle in hunt for air crash victims, ‘black boxes’
JAKARTA: Indonesia has deployed a remotely operated underwater vehicle to help divers search for the remains of victims and recover the flight...
India arrests man ‘honey trapped by ISI’
India's Crime Inspection Department (CID) has arrested a man accused of leaking sensitive information to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) after being lured...
House speeding to impeach Trump for Capitol ‘insurrection’
WASHINGTON: Poised to impeach, the United States House sped ahead with plans to oust President Donald Trump from office, warning he is...