COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Tuesday instructed the island’s Telecommunications Regulatory Commission to lift a ban on social media, nine days after the
TOKYO: Emperor Akihito will abdicate at the end of Tuesday marking the end of the three-decade long Heisei Era and the first time a monarch
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s president has decided to move the capital of the world’s fourth most populous country away from the crowded main island of Java, but
BENGKULU (Indonesia): Floods sparked by torrential rains have killed 29 people in Indonesia with a dozen more still missing, officials said yesterday, marking the latest
OUAGADOUGOU (Burkina Faso): Gunmen killed four worshippers and a pastor in the first jihadist attack on a church in Burkina Faso, security and local sources
SINGAPORE: A Singaporean activist was yesterday fined for questioning the independence of the judiciary on Facebook, the latest case to highlight what critics say is
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan security officials have warned that Islamist militants behind Easter Sunday’s suicide bombings are planning imminent attacks and could be dressed in military
COLOMBO (Sri Lanka): Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic leader yesterday condemned the Easter attacks as “an insult to humanity” as the tense, grief-stricken country marked a
JAKARTA: Ten days after Indonesia held the world’s biggest single-day elections, more than 270 election staff have died, mostly of fatigue-related illness caused by long
PARIS (France): Later this year, the Louvre in Paris will host an exhibition of masterpieces by the Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci to mark his
