AMMAN: Russia will help Jordan repatriate more than 150,000 Syrian refugees who fled fighting with the Assad regime in the country’s south, a Jordanian official said. The official said Russia will repatriate the Syrians

BEIRUT:  A Bangladeshi man kidnapped by Indian workers in Lebanon was the victim of a ransom plot, Lebanese internal security forces said. The 41-year-old worker was kidnapped as he was heading to work in

AMMAN: Russia will help Jordan repatriate more than 150,000 Syrian refugees who fled fighting with the Assad regime in the country’s south, a Jordanian official said. The official said Russia will repatriate the Syrians

New Zealand has rolled out legislation banning foreigners from buying existing homes in the country amid an ongoing housing crisis which has left tens of thousands of people homeless. The Overseas Investment Amendment Bill, passed by

Johannesburg, South Africa - It has been described as the worst act of South African police brutality since the end of apartheid. On the afternoon of 16 August, 2012, some 34 striking miners were

Dhaka, Bangladesh - Almost a year ago, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya living in Myanmar's Rakhine state crossed the border into Bangladesh to escape a brutal campaign of mass killings, rape and arson by Myanmar's security forces. Today,

Thousands have taken to the streets of the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, to demand the release of hundreds arrested during nearly four months of anti-government protests in the country. "Freedom, freedom!" demonstrators chanted as they

Fast Facts Since 2015, the volume of trade between both has exceeded $4.4bn The total of Qatari investment in Turkey amounts to $8.2bn The total of investments and trade between both amounts to $15.7bn Source:

JEDDAH: Qatar defied US President Donald Trump on Wednesday and promised to plough $15 billion into Turkish financial markets and banks, amid a collapse in the value of the lira and a looming trade

JERUSALEM: Israel’s military on Wednesday closed its probe into a deadly 2014 assault in Gaza that followed the capture of a soldier despite a rights group’s charge of possible war crimes.A military fact-finding mission