ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned a “coup attempt” in Venezuela after self-proclaimed opposition leader Juan Guaido said he had the support of troops to oust President Nicolas Maduro. “As a country which fought against coups and experienced the negative ...

ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has said that the ECP failed to hold free and fair elections. He said the opposition parties will hold a demonstration outside the ECP office on August 8 against rigging in the elections. Speaking at a party event in Quetta, Haq said fair and democratic ...

ISLAMABAD - A mission of European Union (EU) comprising around 100 observers would monitor the upcoming general election scheduled to be held on July 25. The mandate of the EU EOM is to observe all aspects of the electoral process and assess the extent to which the elections are in compliance ...

Islamic State suicide bombers attacked Libya's election commission in the capital on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people in the worst such attack in years that aimed to disrupt a nation-wide vote planned for later this year. The two bombers infiltrated the building in central Tripoli and fired on ...

MALDIVES - The Maldives' top judge was arrested Tuesday as security forces stormed the Supreme Court at dawn, in a deepening confrontation with President Abdulla Yameen who has declared a state of emergency in the troubled honeymoon islands. The detention of Chief Justice Abdulla Saeed and ...

Syrian opposition has announced to cooperate with proposals made at a Russian-hosted Sochi conference this week. Chief opposition negotiator Nasr Hariri told a news conference in Istanbul that the Syrian Negotiation Commission would work positively with the proposed committee as long as the process ...

German investigative journalist Patrik Baab and former Pentagon adviser Robert Harkavy have released a bombshell book, revealing the links between the murders of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, West German politician Uwe Barschel and former CIA director William Colby. Baab told Sputnik what ...

Battered by global outrage over an army crackdown on Rohingya Muslims, Myanmar has found comfort in an old friend –- China, an Asian superpower whose unflinching support is tied to the billions it has lavished on ports, gas and oil in violence-hit Rakhine state.Close to half a million Rohingya ...