MELBOURNE, Australia: Authorities have extended a coronavirus lockdown in Melbourne, Australia’s second-biggest city, for a week as part of efforts to stamp out a cluster...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Malaysia will register its diplomatic protest to Beijing and summoned the Chinese ambassador after the military detected 16 Chinese aircraft in its...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia’s Islamic affairs minister has defended a contentious order restricting the volume of mosque loudspeakers, saying it was prompted by complaints...
WASHINGTON DC, USA: Oil prices rose on Tuesday, with Brent topping $70, as optimism grew over the fuel demand outlook during the summer driving season...
DHAKA, Bangladesh: Rohingya refugees have staged protests against living conditions on a cyclone-prone island off Bangladesh where they were moved from vast camps on the...
ANKARA, Turkey: Turkish authorities have captured a nephew of US-based Muslim leader Fethullah Gulen in an overseas operation and have brought him to Turkey where...
ABUJA, Nigeria: An armed gang abducted around 20 students from an Islamic school in the northcentral Nigerian state of Niger on Sunday, police and state...
TORONTO, Canada: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said flags at all federal buildings would be flown at half-staff to honour more than 200 children...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, Palestine: Israeli forces on Friday shot dead a Palestinian man during clashes in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said. Zakaria...
BAMAKO, Mali: Mali’s constitutional court has named the colonel who led a military coup this week as the country’s new interim leader. The ruling, issued...