It is the eighth duststorm since mid-April to hit Iraq, which has been battered by soil degradation, intense droughts and low rainfall linked to climate change. The last one earlier this month led to the death of one person while 5,000 others had t...

Afghanistan's formal banking system collapsed when the Taliban swept back to power in August last year, ending two decades of US-led military intervention in the deeply impoverished nation. Since then money exchangers -- who swap currencies, make i...

Residents in the capital Mogadishu raced through the streets banging metal cans and fired guns into the air in celebration as the result of the marathon poll was announced around midnight. Many are hoping that the vote -- which concluded peacefull...

The 96-year-old monarch used a walking stick to make her way to the royal box at the show, entitled "A Gallop Through History", near her Windsor Castle home west of London. The audience gave the queen a standing ovation at the star-studded equestri...

World markets have been volatile for much of 2022, fuelled by uncertainty over supply chain snarls due to China's lockdowns, inflation pressures and anxiety over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Wall Street stocks closed Friday with a robust rally on...

Whistling shells had just resumed smashing into buildings across the war-shattered industrial city of Lysychansk. Angelina Abakumova stood a little closer to her two children outside a shelter where she had spent the past month living in a pitch-bl...

In his biggest acquisition to date, the deal will give coal-to-ports magnate Adani -- who vies with fellow Indian Mukesh Ambani for the title of Asia's richest person -- a controlling stake in India's second-largest cement manufacturer. "Our move i...

Renault controlled 68 percent of AvtoVAZ, the largest carmaker in Russia with the country's top brand Lada, but was under pressure to pull out of the country since Russia's military intervention in Ukraine. Renault has funnelled billions of euros i...

Sri Lanka began the day at 258-4 with Mathews on 114. He and Dinesh Chandimal, who made 66, extended their fifth-wicket partnership to 136 when Nayeem made the breakthrough. In the 24th over of the session, Chandimal attempted a pre-meditated rever...

The Yemenia plane carrying 126 passengers, including hospital patients needing treatment abroad and their relatives, took off from Sanaa for the Jordanian capital Amman just after 9:00 am (0600 GMT), AFP journalists saw. Before take-off, the plane ...

Coming in as underdogs against 14-time champions Indonesia, a ruthless India won the final of the men's team championship on Sunday in Bangkok to propel badminton to a rare place on centre stage in the cricket-crazy nation. World number 11 Kidambi ...

Loss after tax dropped to 355 million euros ($369 million) in the 12 months to the end of March, compared with a net loss of 1.0 billion euros in its previous financial year. "This recovery, however, remains fragile" following Russia's invasion of ...

Shortly before 1.30 pm (2030 GMT), parishioners were attending a banquet following a morning service at Geneva Presbyterian Church when the gunman began his rampage, authorities said. There were 30 to 40 people inside the building in Laguna Woods, ...

The priest is at a loss. He is a cleric of the Moscow branch of Ukraine's Orthodox Church, which formally pledges allegiance to Russia's Patriarch Kirill. But on the ground, Tereshchenko is a fierce Ukrainian patriot, shocked by the brutality of Pr...

Protestors remained camped outside President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's residence demanding that he resign meanwhile, as troops continued to patrol the streets while ordinary Sri Lankans queued up for scarce supplies. Ranil Wickremesinghe, appointed prim...