Tag: Geography of Asia

A group of Afghan school girls taking part in a robotics competition in the US have been granted visas to ...

A top UAE official on Wednesday accused Qatari broadcast giant Al-Jazeera of anti-Semitism, discrimination and inciting religious hate, in a ...

A first herd of boycott-busting cows has been airlifted to Qatar to boost milk supplies five weeks after neighbouring Gulf ...

China has released 10 Crown Resorts employees, including two Australians, after they spent nine months in prison on charges related ...

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, touring the crisis-hit Gulf for a round of intense shuttle diplomacy, arrived in Saudi ...

Eleven migrant labourers died of asphyxiation in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday in a fire that engulfed the windowless house they ...

Egypt and Morocco's airlines have said a ban against carry-on laptops on US-bound flights has been lifted, leaving only two ...

The Sri Lankan navy has rescued an elephant after it was spotted desperately keeping its trunk above water while swimming ...

Sri Lanka's navy has rescued an elephant that got into difficulties after being washed out to sea, a spokesman said ...

Iran and Oman will work to boost their ties, the Islamic republic's President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday, as a ...

Authorities imposed a curfew Wednesday in parts of Indian-administered Kashmir after three rebels were killed in a firefight with government ...

PRESIDENT of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, last Monday urged the government of Qatar to ensure that ...

An agreement between Qatar and the United States on combating terror funding is "insufficient", the four Arab states that imposed ...

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed four men convicted of "terrorist crimes" including attacks on police and participating in riots in ...

Total and Qatar Petroleum on Tuesday unveiled a 25-year joint venture to develop the vast offshore Al-Shaheen oil field. The ...

The US and Qatar announced Tuesday they have signed an agreement on fighting terrorism, at a time when the emirate ...

A Korean-Nigerian teenager who is rising through the ranks of the fashion world as South Korea's first black model is ...

International donors must step up to prevent a cholera epidemic in war-torn Yemen from producing full-blown famine among hundreds of ...

Thai police say eight people died after gunmen opened fire inside a village chief’s home, in a rare mass shooting. ...

Rebel groups shot down a Syrian government warplane on Tuesday near a ceasefire zone in the country's south, the factions ...