A former chief of staff of China's military was sentenced to life in prison, state media said Wednesday, after he was swept up in President Xi Jinping's ongoing anti-graft crackdown. Appointed to the People's Liberation

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No-fly zones for drones within 5 kilometres of British airports will come into force next month, the government said on Wednesday, after drone sightings caused severe disruption at Heathrow and Gatwick airports. "The enlarged zone

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Pyongyang's special representative for the US arrived in Hanoi on Wednesday with a North Korean delegation, an AFP reporter and source confirmed, ahead of a summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un next week.

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Israel's army said it carried out air strikes Wednesday against a Hamas post in the Gaza Strip after balloons carried an incendiary device over the border into Israeli territory. "During the day, arson balloons were

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A Danish court handed jail terms Wednesday to four Syrians who threw Molotov cocktails at the Turkish embassy in Copenhagen and ruled they should be deported. The verdict, seen by AFP, said the quartet planned

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Hundreds of people including women and children were trucked out of the Islamic State group's last Syria redoubt Wednesday, bringing US-backed forces closer to retaking the last sliver of the "caliphate". The Syrian Democratic Forces

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday the United States was using "far-fetched accusations" to withdraw from a key Cold War arms treaty. Putin said he understood concerns about the bilateral Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to deploy new missiles against Western capitals as he delivered a state of the nation address Wednesday aimed at boosting falling approval ratings. But while he took a combative tone

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Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) chairman Muhammad Saleem Wednesday presented Authority's performance report over its operations and accounts for the financial years 2015-18 to the President Dr Arif Alvi at the Aiwan-e-Sadr. The president,

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Senate Standing Committee on Industries and Production (MoI&P) has decided to inspect Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) physically before preparing recommendations to club with the report of Experts Group to be submitted to the Economic Coordination

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