WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden has underlined his support for the legal “status quo” of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa

RAMALLAH: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shuttled from Israel to the Palestinians’ West Bank

NEW DEHLI: India proposed on Wednesday 5.94 trillion rupees ($72.6 billion) in defence spending

DHAKA: The Bangladesh government has ordered the closure of 191 websites it accuses of publishing

SEOUL: A South Korean soldier mistakenly fired a machine gun near the border with North Korea,

COLUMBIA: Former US president Donald Trump warned on Saturday that the next election

PRAGUE: Newly-elected Czech president Petr Pavel, a former Nato general, will promote

SYDNEY: Thousands of Australians marked the country’s national day celebrations on

SAN FRANCISCO: Meta Platforms Inc said on Wednesday it will reinstate former US

WASHINGTON: A truck-sized asteroid will pass near Earth on Thursday in one of the closest

TEHRAN: Relations between Iran and Europe have deteriorated sharply, with the EU and Britain

TEHRAN: Iranian authorities have arrested three female journalists in the past two days,

WASHINGTON: The United Nations has urged the global community to remind Afghanistan’s

SEOUL: South Korea on Saturday arrested a former national security chief on

MANAMA: The US Navy said on Saturday it had seized one million rounds of ammunition

TEHRAN: Iran said on Saturday it is reviewing a decades-old law that requires women to cover

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia plans to host a Chinese-Arab summit on Dec 9 attended by Chinese

CAIRO: Saudi Arabia’s energy minister said Saudi Aramco had discovered two new natural gas fields,

BEIRUT: The militant Islamic State group said on Wednesday that its leader

TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei cast doubt on Baghdad’s commitment