“A rainbow after the rain,” that is how Chinese President Xi Jinping is describing his upcoming trip to the Philippines. He will be the first Chinese leader to visit the Philippines in 13 years.

ANKARA: Turkey announced a curfew in Syria’s northern city of Afrin as part of a wide-ranging operation against a rebel faction, the Al-Sharqiyyah Martyrs Gathering, and its allies who have been accused of crimes

DUBAI: With emerging technologies developing at a rapid pace in today’s digital age, drug trafficking through the dark net is one field that global police chiefs are confronting as they upgrade their skills to

BRUSSELS: EU foreign ministers have endorsed a French government decision to sanction Iranian nationals accused of a bomb plot in France, potentially allowing the measures to take effect across the bloc, three diplomats said.

A gunman at a Chicago hospital killed a police officer and two others before dying in the shooting, while to the west of the country in Denver one person was shot and killed on

Australian police arrested three men they say were preparing a terrorist attack in Melbourne, the country's second biggest city, less than two weeks after a man was killed in a rampage that police said

Saudi Arabia's oil giant Aramco has shelved plans to embark on a massive corporate-bond sale to fund a $70bn stake in the kingdom's national petrochemical firm, a news report said. Looking instead at options

Guatemala City - More than 4,000 people living in communities around the Fuego volcano in the Guatemalan department of Escuintla were forced to evacuate their homes late on Sunday as the volcano erupted once

On November 14, the United Nations Security Council unanimously agreed to lift the sanctions it had imposed on Eritrea with Resolution 1907. The measure, which included an international arms embargo, travel bans and the freezing of assets

BRUSSELS: EU foreign ministers have endorsed a French government decision to sanction Iranian nationals accused of a bomb plot in France, potentially allowing the measures to take effect across the bloc, three diplomats said.