ISTANBUL: Turkish prosecutors issued detention warrants for 417 people on Tuesday over their alleged involvement in money laundering transactions, local media reported. According to the Hurriyet daily, police launched simultaneous operations in 40 provinces across the country to capture the ...

Tehran: Two people were killed and more than 200 injured in a strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake that struck western Iran near the border with Iraq early Sunday, officials told local media. The shallow quake hit 26 kilometres (16 miles) southwest of the city of Javanrud in Kermanshah province, the US ...

ISLAMABAD: New Zealand Cricket has refused to tour Pakistan for a T20 international series later this year, local media reported on Tuesday. What would have been the Black Caps’ first tour to Pakistan in 15 years, won’t be happening, said an official from New Zealand Cricket. "At the ...

DUBAI: Oman will delay the introduction of a five percent value-added tax until 2019 instead of introducing it next year as originally planned, local media reported late on Monday, a decision that may hurt its effort to strengthen shaky state finances.All six countries in the Gulf Cooperation ...