CAIRO: Three Egyptian soldiers have been killed in a 10-day-old campaign against militants focused on the Sinai peninsula, Egypt’s military said on Monday. It was the first time the military has reported its own casualties since it launched the operation on February 9. The statement did not say ...

North Korea says it is unable to pay its share of the 2018 United Nations budget because of international sanctions. The UN and US had imposed strict sanctions for Pyongyang’s continued development of its nuclear weapons programme. North Korea’s UN Ambassador Ja Song Nam asked the UN to set up ...

OTTAWA: Just one day after signing a $233 million agreement to sell 16 helicopters to the Philippines, the Canadian government on Wednesday ordered a review of the deal amid concerns the aircraft could be used to fight rebels. Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said that the deal — formally signed on ...

Using drugs or diet to reduce levels of asparagine may benefit patients, say researchers   Breast cancer patients could be encouraged to cut asparagus and other foods from their diets in the future to reduce the risk of the disease spreading, scientists say. Researchers are investigating whether a change in ...

New European Commission road map lays out conditions for quick accession   Serbia and Montenegro could be set to join the European Union as early as 2025, according to a new action plan launched by Brussels. The EU enlargement plan for the Western Balkans, presented by the European Commission on ...

Japanese government wants to increase acceptance of technology that could help fill the gap in the nursing workforce     Japan’s elderly are being told to get used to being looked after by robots. With Japan’s ageing society facing a predicted shortfall of 370,000 caregivers by 2025, the government wants ...

  MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA: Boko Haram fighters stormed a village in northeast Nigeria and murdered two civilians, while six people were killed in an attack in northern Cameroon, a local resident and security sources told AFP on Monday. The attacks came as Nigeria’s military again maintained the jihadists had been defeated, ...

Asian markets plunged overnight following the lead of the Dow Jones which registered its largest points fall in history   Stock markets across Europe are bracing themselves for big falls after what was described as “carnage” in indexes across Asia overnight. Falls in Japan and Australia were prompted by a ...

  ROME: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rejected proposals of a partnership with the EU, insisting full membership to the bloc is the only option, in an interview published Sunday. Hosting Erdogan on a visit to Paris in January, French President Emmanuel Macron said it was “hypocrisy” to say ...

  JAKARTA, Indonesia: The UN’s human rights chief has warned that Myanmar’s persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority has the potential to spark regional conflict. Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein reiterated while in Indonesia on Monday that acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing may have occurred in the campaign of violence against ...