Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group, which assembles Apple’s iPhones and makes components fortop global electronics companies, closed a plant in China on Monday after about 2,000 workers were involved in a brawl at a company dormitory.

Indians are among more then 2,100 people apprehended in Kuwait during raids on visa violators and those involved in crimes like theft, an official at the Indian embassy in Kuwait has said.

International envoy Lakhdar Brahimi was set to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Saturday, hoping to breathe life into stalled peace efforts, as fighting rages in Damascus and beyond.

Protesters in Egypt and Libya attacked U.S. diplomatic missions on Tuesday, leading to the death of an American staffer at the consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi after fierce clashes at the compound, a Libyan official said.

It is not often in recent years that the West Indies have been billed as favourites to win a major cricket title, but skipper Darren Sammy is cautious of the tag ahead of the World Twenty20.

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Iraq's fugitive Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi, a top critic of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, was convicted of murder on Sunday and sentenced to death by hanging, in a decision likely to renew political tensions.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged world powers on Sunday to set a 'clear red line' for Tehran's atomic program that would convince Iran they were determined to prevent it from obtaining nuclear arms.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged world powers on Sunday to set a "clearred line" for Tehran's atomic activities and said they had failed to convince it of their resolve to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear arms.

Syrian forces threatened on Sunday to mount a 'decisive battle' for Aleppo even as rebels clawed toward the city's ancient center under intense bombardment and strafing from warplanes.