Asia
Saudi, Allies Issue Qatar-Linked ‘terrorism’ List
Saudi Arabia and allies, which have cut ties with Doha, on Friday issued a list of individuals and entities they say...
Kurdish Referendum Would Distract From IS Fight, US Warns
The United States on Thursday warned that a decision by Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region to hold an independence...
Ocean Cleanup Finds Rivers Are Major Culprits Behind Ocean Pollution
A new study has revealed that the major culprit behind Earth's polluted oceans are the world's river systems....
Qatar’s Al-Jazeera Says Battling Cyber Attack
Qatar-based broadcaster Al-Jazeera said Thursday that it was under a widescale cyber attack which had targeted "all...
Kuwait Parliament Passes Deficit Budget
Kuwait's parliament Thursday passed the budget for the 2017/18 fiscal year, projecting a deficit for the third year in...
Turkey In ‘difficult Position’ Over Support For Qatar
Turkey is keen to support its close ally Qatar in a diplomatic crisis with Doha's Gulf neighbours, but has found itself...
Plastic In Rivers Major Source of Ocean Pollution
Plastic that is dumped in rivers and then ends up in the world's oceans is one of the major sources of marine...
Moroccan Fossil Find Rearranges Homo Sapiens Family Tree
This week's unveiling of the oldest-known Homo sapiens remains has painted an excitingly chaotic picture of what Earth...
Maldives Arrests Key Dissident After UN Censure
The Maldives arrested one of the few vocal dissidents still in the country on Thursday, a day after facing censure at...
Myanmar Bars Rakhine Documentary From Film Festival
Myanmar's censors have barred a documentary on festering religious tensions between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in...
When IS Group Reign Ends, Who Will Rule Syria’s Raqa?
The battle by US-backed forces to oust the Islamic State group from its Syrian bastion of Raqa will solve one problem...
Death For Nine Filipinos Over 2013 Malaysia Invasion
Nine Filipinos who were part of an armed group that invaded and occupied part of Malaysian Borneo in 2013, in an...
Israel Advances Plans For Further 1,500 Settler Homes
Israel has advanced plans for a further 1,500 homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Peace Now said on...
China To Bar Foreign Climbers From Everest’s Tibet Side
China will bar foreigners from climbing the Tibetan side of Mount Everest during the coming autumn season after a...
Repatriation of Afghans Slowing As Conditions In Pakistan Improve
The number of Afghan refugees in Pakistan returning to their homeland is expected to decrease this year, UN officials...
Qatar Says State News Agency First Hacked In April
Qatari investigators have said that a cyber attack which saw the publication of explosive fake news last month that...
GCC Nations Issue More Threats Against Qatar
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) threatened to impose an economic embargo against Qatar while Bahrain said "any options"...
Japan’s Kagawa Out of Iraq Football World Cup Clash
Japan suffered a blow Thursday when playmaker Shinji Kagawa was ruled out of next week's World Cup qualifier against...
Debris and Bodies Found After Search
The Burmese army says debris and bodies have been found after a military plane went missing with 122 people on board....