Tag: Geography of Asia

The toll from twin bombings targeting Shiite pilgrims in the centre of Damascus has risen to 74 dead, a monitor ...

Seven Yemeni soldiers and eight rebels were killed in heavy fighting over the past 24 hours near the Red Sea ...

Twin bombs killed 30 people and wounded more than 40 in the Old City of Damascus on Saturday in a ...

China on Saturday tried to downplay concerns it is reducing market access for foreign enterprises, days after a report by ...

Car enthusiast Mohammed Mohiedin Anis gazes sadly at a 1955 Buick Super, one of his collection of vintage cars "wounded" ...

Maldivian opposition parties protested Friday a planned visit by King Salman following reports that Saudi business interests were buying an ...

Legendary Arab singer Rashed al-Majed gave his fans three encores in the Saudi capital on Thursday night. Why not? They ...

Mongolian courts banned them, human rights groups slammed them and the labour ministry demands they cease, but none of that ...

The bruises, scabs and chain markings have long faded but Haji Ghulam is still visibly traumatised by his month-long abduction, ...

Iran has successfully test-fired a naval missile which hit its target 250 kilometres away, local news agencies reported Thursday. "We ...

Electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre says he will perform in Israel next month in a concert to publicise the plight ...

Chinese survey ships have been entering waters recognised by the United Nations as Philippine territory, Manila's defence secretary said Thursday, ...

Twice raising the little finger represents "I" and placing a thumb on the index finger and the middle finger makes ...

Qatar's metro, once completed, will run hundreds of kilometres across ultra-modern Doha, along the coast and into its expanding suburbs. ...

The Islamic State group has lost most of the land it once held in Iraq and Syria but hopes to ...

Tensions have remained high in the more than 60 years since North and South Korea fought a fierce war from ...

A South African man and his Ukrainian fiancee have been detained in the United Arab Emirates for unlawful sex, a ...

Lebanese authorities carried out raids Wednesday against currency exchange offices and money transfer companies on suspicion they sent huge sums ...

Israel's parliament gave preliminary approval Wednesday to two controversial measures that would limit calls to prayers from mosques, including one ...

The Maldives government on Wednesday denied it was selling a cluster of small islands to Saudi Arabia, following opposition protests ...