Moscow: Washington's move to pull out of a landmark nuclear weapons treaty with Russia is motivated by a dream of a single global superpower, Russian state news agencies on Saturday cited a foreign ministry source as saying. "The main motive is a dream of a unipolar world. Will it come true? No," a ...

ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stood out against ethnic discrimination in the country during his visit to southeastern Diyarbakir province. "Anyone who discriminates on the basis of ethnicity in our country will have to face us first," he said said addressing the opening ceremony of ...

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia admitted that critic Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its Istanbul consulate. Before dawn on Saturday, Riyadh announced that Khashoggi died during a "brawl" inside the consulate on October 2. Eighteen Saudis have been arrested in connection with his death and two top aides of ...

Kabul: Nearly 170 Afghans were killed or wounded in poll-related violence on Saturday, official figures showed, as the legislative election turned chaotic with many polling centres opening hours late -- or not at all -- due to technical glitches and lack of staff. In the latest attack, a suicide ...

LONDON - Britain said on Saturday it was considering the "next steps" after Saudi Arabia acknowledged for the first time that the missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed at its consulate in Turkey. "We send our condolences to Jamal Khashoggi´s family after this confirmation of his death. ...

BEIJING - China's independently-developed large amphibious aircraft AG600 completed its first water takeoff and landing in the city of Jingmen in the central province of Hubei on Saturday. The AG600, codenamed Kunlong, is designed to be the world's largest amphibious aircraft. It completed its ...

LONDON - In Britain, hundreds of thousands of supporters of the European Union marched through London today to demand that the government holds a public vote on the terms of Brexit. The protesters waved the blue and gold flag of the EU and held up “Bollocks to Brexit” banners to call for ...

KABUL - More than 130 Afghans were killed or wounded in poll-related violence on Saturday, officials said, as the legislative election turned chaotic with hundreds of polling centres failing to open and voters queueing for hours. Most of the casualties were in Kabul, where at least four people ...

ISLAMABAD - The United States, China and several other countries on Saturday agreed in principle to guidelines on preventing unplanned warplane encounters, the latest effort to avoid military confrontations in Asia. Risks of chance encounters between military aircraft spiralling out of control ...

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump said Friday he found Saudi Arabia s explanation about the death of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi credible and termed it an "important first step." And he said that if the US did take action over Khashoggi s death -- which Saudi Arabia said came as a ...