Jordan’s King Abdullah II, right, receives Qatar’s deputy PM Khalid bin Mohammad Al Attiyah, centre, in Jordan Amman moves to restore normal ties with Qatar more than two years after withdrawing its ambassador over Gulf crisis. Jordan has appointed a new ambassador to Qatar, a step towards restoring normal relations two years after Amman withdrew

Photo/Reuters Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has declared he will never be tried by an international court for mass killings in his war on drugs, and vowed no let up in a crackdown that he said he was winning and would see through “to the very end”. In a television interview with a celebrity pastor, the

Photo (AP) Pakistani authorities say they have arrested a radical cleric and U.S.-wanted terror suspect blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, just days ahead of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s trip to Washington. Counterterrorism official Mohammad Shafiq says Hafiz Saeed was taken into custody in Punjab province on Wednesday while he was traveling from the eastern

Myanmar’s Commander in Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing salutes as he attends an event marking Martyrs’ Day at Martyrs’ Mausoleum in Yangon, Myanmar July 19, 2018. REUTERS/Ann Wang The United States announced sanctions on Tuesday against the Myanmar military’s Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing and other leaders it said were responsible for extrajudicial killings of

Photo/Reuters International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde submitted her resignation from the global crisis lender on Tuesday, citing more clarity about her nomination to lead the European Central Bank as European legislators approved a new top bureaucrat. Lagarde said in a statement her resignation was effective Sept. 12, firing the starting gun for the IMF’s

Photo (AP) Turkey on Tuesday rejected as “worthless” an initial set of sanctions approved by the European Union against Ankara, and vowed to send a new vessel to the eastern Mediterranean to reinforce its efforts to drill for hydrocarbons off the island of Cyprus. EU foreign ministers on Monday approved sanctions against Turkey over its

Rescue workers and residents search for survivors at the site of a collapsed building in Mumbai, India, July 16, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer An old four-storey building collapsed in India’s financial capital of Mumbai on Tuesday, trapping more than two dozen people in the rubble, with at least four confirmed dead, a fire department official said. It

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un stand at the demarcation line in the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea, June 30, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo The United States looks set to break a promise not to hold military exercises with South Korea, putting talks

Yangon worst affected area with 43 causalities, says health official At least 54 people in Myanmar have died from swine flu, a health official said Tuesday, after the H1N1 virus spread to a larger part of the country. The latest outbreak of the virus began nearly a month ago with the first death reported in

The two-week exercise will be financed by US while Ethiopia provides venues and platforms for the drills. The contributing countries to the African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, Rwanda, and Uganda – are to be the focal participants. US Army Africa Commanding General Roger L. Cloutier said at the launch of the