THE DAILY STAR

Canada on Thursday said it would impose sanctions on nine Myanmar military officials, saying the coup has led to mass detentions, the use of...

At least eight people were killed on Thursday near Burkina Faso's northern border with Niger, an area notorious for jihadist attacks, a secu...

Britain on Thursday imposed sanctions on three Myanmar generals for serious human rights violations following a military coup there.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed the ongoing review of the US

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said on Thursday he had agreed with his US, Indian and Australian counterparts

Earth had its quietest period in decades during 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic significantly reduced human activity and its impact on the pla...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday sued his main opposition rival for claiming he was personally "responsible" for the death...

Israel said on Thursday it is developing a new ballistic missile shield, the Arrow-4, with the United States, another layer in a defensive s...

A Kabul University professor was killed when a bomb hit his car in Afghanistan's capital on Thursday, police officials said, the first attac...

Lebanon is set to hold parliamentary by-elections for ten vacant seats by the end of March, local media reports quoted the caretaker interio...

The Lebanese Court of Cassation Thursday issued a decision to remove lead investigator Judge Fadi Sawwan from the Beirut blast probe, a judi...

Steph Curry sealed a stunning late fightback to help the Golden State Warriors to a 120-112 overtime victory over the Miami Heat Wednesday.

Pakistani officials say three experienced mountaineers who went missing earlier this month while attempting to scale the world’s second-high...

Storm Joyce left most of Lebanon under a blanket of snow Thursday, lifting some of the gloom that has dominated the crises-hit country.

Nearly 100 asylum-seekers are among the 1,200 Myanmar nationals Malaysia plans to send home by ship next week

More than 11,000 Ebola vaccines are expected to arrive in Guinea this weekend, with more to follow, and inoculations could start as soon as...

A court in Belarus on Thursday sentenced a pair of young television journalists to two years in prison for covering a protest last year, the...

Naomi Osaka ended Serena Williams' bid for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title with an imperious 6-3 6-4 win Thursday, a victory that b...

Egypt announced on Thursday the start of a bid round for exploration and exploitation of oil and natural gas in 24 blocks.

A Tunisian entrepreneur growing edible flowers says she is surprised by the appetite for her homegrown product in the North African country...

Protesters were out again across Myanmar on Thursday to denounce the Feb. 1 coup and arrest of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, with police...

The deaths stacked up: a policeman shot dead with a pistol equipped with a silencer, a local official gunned down, his son wounded, an Iraqi...

The United Arab Emirates is dismantling parts of a military base it runs in the East African nation of Eritrea after it pulled back from the...

U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone Wednesday after a month of silence that raised concern...

The Lebanese pound fell sharply on the black market Wednesday, trading over 9,000 to the dollar for the first time in months