Bhutan's voters have handed an overwhelming victory to a new party headed by a surgeon in only the third democratic election held by the Himalayan kingdom, according to provisional results. The country of 800,000

Afghanistan's Shia minority has significant sway in politics, holding 20 percent of seats in parliament but this has not given them any confidence in Sunday's election. A series of ISIL attacks targeting them has

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Turkey and Saudi Arabia will conduct full, transparent investigations over the alleged murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. This came amid

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s rapid ascent took the international community by surprise. In the past 18 months, he consolidated power and attempted to project himself as a reformer and moderniser. But the

Former Sudanese president Abdulrahman Suwar al-Dahab has died in Saudi Arabia, Sudan's state news agency (SUNA) reports. The 83 year-old former leader died at a military hospital in Riyadh, the agency said on Thursday,

Egypt prosecutor refers 3 oil industry execs for trial for alleged corruption -judicial source CAIRO: Egypt’s public prosecutor has referred three executives from a private petroleum company for trial over an alleged corruption scam

SOCHI: President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Daesh militants had seized nearly 700 hostages in part of Syria controlled by US-backed forces and issued an ultimatum promising to execute 10 people every day.Speaking in the

SOCHI: President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Daesh militants had seized nearly 700 hostages in part of Syria controlled by US-backed forces and issued an ultimatum promising to execute 10 people every day.Speaking in the

The leadership of Afghanistan's Kandahar has been assassinated in a brazen gun attack claimed by the Taliban, leaving a power vacuum in the crucial province ahead of Saturday's elections. General Abdul Raziq, one of

Sri Lanka has reversed a decision to award a $300m housing deal to China in favour of a joint venture with an Indian company, the government said, ahead of a visit by its prime