Seven people have been killed and 21 injured after a race car plowed into spectators at a motor event in Sri Lanka.
The crash occurred at the Fox Hill Supercross race on Sunday in Diyatalawa, an army base town.
Among the dead were four race (...)
A small, uninhabited island that is part of Sri Lanka has sparked a political row in India weeks before general elections kick off.
Katchatheevu — a strip of land spanning just about 1.9 sq km (0.7 sq miles) — is located in the Palk Strait, a (...)
The bodies of two people have been recovered from a red pickup truck, which was under water where the Baltimore bridge collapsed.
Eight construction workers were on the bridge when a ship struck it, plunging them into the waters below.
Two of the (...)
By the time the crew of the Dali, a massive 948ft (289m) container ship, realized what was happening, it was already far too late.
The vessel — at the very start of a 27-day journey from the port of Baltimore to Sri Lanka — completely lost power (...)
Police in India have arrested two people after some international students were assaulted in a university hostel while offering Ramadan prayers.
Officials say a heated argument about the location of the prayers led to the physical attack in Gujarat (...)
India's government has announced plans to enact a controversial citizenship law that has been criticized for being anti-Muslim.
The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will allow non-Muslim religious minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan (...)
JEDDAH — The Jeddah Historic District Program announced the discovery of two poles made of ebony wood in the historic site of Othman bin Affan Mosque that date back to over 1200 years during the first and second centuries AH (7th and 8th centuries (...)
An organizer of a "white party" in Sri Lanka has apologized after the event sparked a backlash online.
The event's advertisement specified a white dress code, but also had a line saying "Face control: White" — which was largely interpreted to mean (...)
At least a dozen Indians have been duped by agents into fighting for Russian forces in the country's war with Ukraine with reports saying one of them was killed in a missile strike.
Hemal Ashwinbhai from Gujarat state died in a missile attack last (...)
At least three people died in Odesa last night after a Russian drone attack caused a fire in a shopping district.
Posting on Telegram, regional governor Oleh Kiper said that Ukrainian air defence forces had destroyed nine of the ten drones launched (...)
US prosecutors have charged an alleged member of the Japanese mafia with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials.
Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, tried to sell uranium and plutonium that he believed would be transferred to Iran to build a nuclear bomb, it is (...)
The expected arrival of a Chinese research ship in the Maldives this week has escalated tensions between Beijing, Delhi and Male.
Officially, the vessel Xiang Yang Hong 3 is there to "make a port call, for rotation of personnel and replenishment". (...)
JEDDAH — As many as 25,000 fragments of artifacts dating back the Islamic caliphates during the first two centuries of the Hijri Calendar, corresponding to the 7th to 8th centuries AD, have been discovered from the Jeddah Historic Area.
The (...)
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has sent a cable of congratulations to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe on his country's National Day.
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques wished the Sri Lankan (...)
Sri Lanka's draconian law to regulate online content has come into force, in a move rights groups say is aimed at stifling freedom of speech.
The Online Safety Act gives a government commission broad powers to assess and remove "prohibited" (...)
Sri Lanka's lawmakers passed a bill on Wednesday regulating internet use among its citizens, in a move that has sparked fears among rights groups of a free speech crackdown.
The Online Safety Bill, which passed with 108-62 votes, aims to "make (...)
The United Nations refugee agency has said a remote British territory in the Indian Ocean, which hosts a secretive UK-US military base, is "not a suitable location" for migrants to be held long-term, after being granted rare access.
Dozens of Sri (...)
RIYADH — The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD) announced that it has cut the upper limit of fee for recruiting domestic workers from a number of countries. These countries include the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, (...)
Bilateral ties between the Maldives and India — that have hit rock-bottom in recent weeks — have taken another tumble after Male formally asked Delhi to withdraw its troops from the island nation by 15 March.
The demand was conveyed at the first (...)
RIYADH — The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD) launched the first phase of the Skill Verification Program (SVP) in Egypt.
The program was launched in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Manpower, by carrying out the (...)
The Cabinet, chaired by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman in Riyadh on Wednesday, lauded the selection of the Saudi minister of finance to chair the IMF International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC).
It also praised the Kingdom's (...)
Sri Lanka's top court has ruled that ex-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his brother Mahinda were among 13 former leaders responsible for the country's worst-ever financial crisis.
Their "actions, omissions and conduct" sparked the crisis, the (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan on Sunday made phone calls with his counterparts in France, Spain, Iran, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Malta. During the phone calls, the foreign ministers emphasized the importance of a (...)
COLOMBO — Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Eng. Waleed Al-Khuraiji pledged Saudi Arabia's support for all the efforts of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) to confront the challenges faced by maritime safety and global trade as well as to (...)
More than 1,000 people have died from dengue in Bangladesh's worst outbreak on record, official data shows, with rising temperatures due to the climate crisis driving the ongoing spread as more cases are reported away from dense urban centers for (...)