
Former French PM Fillon to face trial over fake jobs
PARIS: Former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, whose 2017 bid for the presidency was torpedoed by a fake job scandal involving his wife, will face

PARIS: Former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon, whose 2017 bid for the presidency was torpedoed by a fake job scandal involving his wife, will face

PORAC: Philippine rescuers were scrambling Tuesday to reach some two dozen people feared buried under a building near Manila that collapsed a day earlier in
WASHINGTON: A “big-hearted” technician who was visiting Sri Lanka for work was among at least four Americans killed in the Easter attacks on churches and
LONDON: Dissident republican group the New IRA on Tuesday admitted responsibility for killing Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee last week as police said they had

AHMEDABAD: Prime Minister Narendra Modi cast his vote on India’s “Super Tuesday” when the biggest number of seats are decided in the country’s marathon election.

NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s Supreme Court rejected the latest appeal Tuesday by two Pulitzer-prize winning Reuters journalists who were jailed for seven years on charges linked to

COLOMBO: The death toll from a string of explosions that rocked Sri Lanka on Sunday rose to 310 while over 500 were injured, reported Xinhua

MANILA: The Philippine government yesterday warned the press against plotting to “destroy” President Rodrigo Duterte’s government, as his spokesman accused journalists of spreading fake news.

VADAKARA (India): P. Jayarajan slowly raised his left hand and pointed to a gap where a thumb had been hacked off before flagging a deep
KANO (Nigeria): Two people including a British aid worker have been shot dead and four tourists abducted in an attack by armed gunmen on a