Indonesian presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and his wife Iriana after casting their vote in Jakarta on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters/Darren Whiteside. Jakarta: Joko Widodo and his political patron Megawati Sukarnoputri have claimed victory in the ...

Dubai The United Nations High Commmissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has announced plans to naturalise 100,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon, according to Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas, who says he obtainted the report. In comments published in ...

Dubai The United Nations High Commmissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has announced plans to naturalise 100,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon, according to Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas, who says he obtainted the report. In comments published in ...

Media hope that the annual US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue will help "disperse suspicion" between the two countries as US Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Beijing for the talks. Starting on Wednesday, the two-day key ministerial meeting is ...

MOSCOW—The five major emerging national economies known by the acronym BRICS will open a development bank by 2016 and create an alternative to the International Monetary Fund to support the bloc's economies, Russia's Finance Minister said ...

MOSCOW—The five major emerging national economies known by the acronym BRICS will open a development bank by 2016 and create an alternative to the International Monetary Fund to support the bloc's economies, Russia's Finance Minister said ...

Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko visits the headquarters of anti-terrorist operation near Izyum, Kharkiv Oblast, and finalizes the plan of the military offensive actions of the Ukraine's army on July 8. © Anastasia Vlasova. Tweet. SEE ALSO. Poroshenko ...

Miroslav Klose, the World Cup's new all-time record goalscorer, had a word for it that might yet become an accepted part of football lexicon. "We 'super-blend'," he explained. Klose was attempting to describe a Germany performance and playing style that, ...

Jerusalem: Israel intensified its bombardment of Gaza, launching air and naval strikes up and down the besieged coastal strip that medical officials say killed 25 and wounded more than 140, while militants from Gaza fired a barrage of rockets at cities in Israel, ...

After Germany's stunning demolition of hosts Brazil on Tuesday, Lionel Messi's Argentina will seek to join the Europeans in the final when they take on 2010 runners-up the Netherlands in Sao Paulo later on Wednesday. 1 hour ago Reuters. 0 shares ...

image SINGAPORE: Brent crude fell below $109 a barrel on Wednesday as Libya restarted an oilfield, on track to drop for an eighth session in what would be its longest losing streak in over four years. Easing worries over possible disruptions to supply from ...

Jakarta: On the streets of Jakarta on presidential election day, it's either Prabowo Subianto's toughness, or Joko Widodo as the man of the people that Indonesians are voting for. “Jokowi is for the people, a leader who is born from the people and he's for the ...

India lock horns with England in a five-Test series. The visitors would be looking to exorcise the ghosts of their last visit to England where they were hammered 4-0 by the hosts. India have been defeated in their last two series' by England and overall too, ...

Hopes that 200 schoolgirls held captive could be rescued were raised last night after Nigeria's National Council of State promised to deliver “some good news” very soon. The council, made up of past presidents, state governors and leaders of parliament, said ...

Washington: In an unusual personal intervention in a foreign election, US President Barack Obama has asked the two presidential candidates in Afghanistan's disputed polls to maintain calm and threatened to cut-off American aid if "extra-constitutional" steps ...

Airline passengers entering and leaving the UK on potentially any routes, including transatlantic ones and those connecting with mainland Europe, will be expected to be show that electronic devices in their hand luggage can be powered up, British ...

The sixth round of China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue has opened here in Beijing. The two-day event brings together senior diplomats and officials from both sides. The S&ED will be co-chaired by Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang and State ...

image WASHINGTON: Afghanistan's capricious politics and fresh claims of poll fraud Tuesday clouded President Barack Obama's search for a "responsible" exit from Afghanistan by year's end. The United States, which pointedly stayed mute during two ...

By Richard Balmforth and Maria Tsvetkova. KIEV/DONETSK, Ukraine, (Reuters) - Ukraine's government kept up military pressure against pro-Russian rebels on Tuesday, threatening them with an "nasty surprise", while the militants said they were preparing to ...

China's President Xi Jinping called for greater military communication with the U.S., saying as he opened high-level talks between the two countries that any conflict would be a global disaster. China needs a stable environment “more than ever,” and it's ...