An aircraft prepares to land at the International Ngurah Rai Airport on Indonesia’s popular tourist island of Bali yesterday. Indonesian growth slipped below six percent last quarter as exports and investment fell in Southeast

Suspected Al Qaeda militants killed four Yemeni soldiers in their sleep early yesterday in an attack on forces guarding the country’s only liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal, a local official said. The assault follows

Shia gunmen killed a Sunni man in an ambush yesterday in eastern Lebanon in apparent revenge for a deadly attack on local Shia clan members in June, a military source said. Four people were also

The head of Tunisia’s ruling Islamist party Ennahda is to meet the powerful UGTT trade union chief today on the crisis sparked by the killing of an opposition politician. The UGTT said that its

Syrian rebel fighters kidnapped 13 Kurds in the northern province of Aleppo on Sunday, turning them over to jihadist fighters already holding 250 abducted Kurds, an NGO said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

Israel moved ahead yesterday with plans to build nearly 1,200 homes for Jewish settlers, holding fast to a settlement policy as cabinet ministers met to approve a release of Palestinian prisoners ahead of

Zimbabwe’s government yesterday denied a report in the British newspaper The Times that it had reached a secret uranium export deal with Iran. The Times story published on Saturday quoted outgoing deputy minister of mines

At least 11 people were injured, some seriously, when a Karwa bus ploughed into commuters at the waiting area of the Mowasalat bus terminus in Al Ghanim yesterday. The bus driver accidentally stepped on the

A lower criminal court has handed out the death sentence to two young men for killing in cold blood a security guard of a famous automobile showroom and stealing a brand new car

A 31-year-old Indian expatriate died, reportedly after being stabbed by an Asian man in a labour camp in Al Sailiya on the outskirts of Doha a little after midnight on Saturday. The deceased has been