August 30, 2015 - Page 4

Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad on Sunday accused current Prime Minister Najib Razak of clinging to power to avoid prosecution over a financial scandal, as he lent his weight to protests gripping

Saudi authorities executed a Pakistani man on Sunday for attempting to smuggle drugs into the ultra-conservative kingdom, the interior ministry said.

Japan's Suzuki Motor said on Sunday it plans to buy back its shares sold to Volkswagen after an international arbitration court settled a dispute between the two automakers.

A retired Algerian intelligence chief, formerly in charge of counter-terrorism, is being held in a military prison after his arrest in Algiers, the daily El-Watan reported Sunday.

The Islamic State jihadist group has executed more than 90 people, a third of them civilians, over the past month in areas of war-torn Syria under its control, a monitoring group said

Gunmen armed with automatic weapons early Sunday attacked a small airport in Pakistan's remote and restive southwest, killing an officer and abducting another, officials said.

A Syriac Catholic bishop has been beatified in Lebanon, a century after he was beheaded in Syria by Ottoman security forces during a wave of religiously motivated killings.