The benchmark rate for a one-year loan will be cut by 0.25 percentage point to 4.6 per cent and the one-year rate for deposits will fall by a similar margin to 1.75 per cent, the central bank announced. It also increased the amount of money available for lending by redu ....

Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters that Turkish and U.S. military officials had sealed an agreement concerning “the procedures and technical details” of their operations. He didn’t provide details, but he has said an extensive, coordinated operat ....

Muller gave up her apartment in spring. “It all started with a dispute I had with my landlord,” Muller told The Washington Post via e-mail. “I instantly decided I didn’t want to live there anymore and then I realised: actually, I didn’t wan ....

The term refers to the U.S. policy granting automatic citizenship to children born in the country to foreign nationals, and those speaking of “anchor babies” in this context typically criticise this rule because it also allows the U.S.-born children to spons ....

Nasheed’s party the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) said that policemen, without a court warrant forcefully entered his home on Sunday, breaking the main gate of the house and pepper sprayed those inside the house indiscriminately. The party strongly condemned ....

The grand parade, in which 12,000 soldiers are participating, is meant to highlight the end of World War II, with focus on defeat of Japanese militarism 70 years ago. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is not attending the event, but Russian President Vladimir Putin wou ....

Palmyra, one of the Middle East’s most spectacular archaeological sites and a UNESCO World Heritage site, sits near the modern Syrian city of the same name. Activists said the militants used explosives to blow up the Baalshamin Temple on its grounds, the blast ....

No deaths were reported, but at least 26 people were injured, according to Japan’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency. The same storm struck the Philippines earlier, where the death toll rose to 21 with 15 still missing as search and rescue efforts continued. ....

In an artfully crafted, though vague, piece of diplomacy, Pyongyang expressed “regret” over the fact that two South Korean soldiers were maimed in a recent land mine blast. While not an acknowledgement of responsibility, it allows Seoul to say it has receive ....

The new government in Sri Lanka should take up, as its immediate priority, the full implementation of the 13 Constitutional Amendment and recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, Vickramabahu Karunarathne, general secretary of the Nava Sama Samaj ....