WASHINGTON – The US and five Arab allies have launched the first strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria. The Pentagon…
DAMASCUS – Turkey has begun to close some of its border crossings with Syria after about 130,000 Kurdish refugees entered the country…
LONDON – Scotland has voted to stay in the United Kingdom after voters decisively rejected independence. With the results in from all…
GENEVA – As hospitals in nations hardest hit by Ebola struggle to keep up, desperate patients are turning to the black market…
HARARE – Both sides in the Scottish referendum debate are making their final pitch to voters on the last day of campaigning….
LONDON – The murder of David Haines was an “act of pure evil”, David Cameron has said after the release of a…
BAGDAD – Iraqi government forces say they have cleared Islamic State (IS) militants from a wide area around the strategic Haditha dam,…
WALES – Western leaders have criticised Russia for its “destabilising” influence on the crisis in Ukraine, at the start of a Nato…
JINAN – I’ve eaten some unusual things on the road. There were salted Mopani worms in Botswana at the hotel buffet (black…
NEW DELHI – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a plan to provide a bank account for every household, in a…
