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GENEVA: The Swiss banking giant UBS could shed 10,000 jobs in the near future, according to a report on Saturday in the TagesAnzeiger...

MANILA: A court has blocked the export of 25 captive dolphins trained in the Philippines to become show animals at a Singapore casino,...

DAMASCUS: International peace envoy LakhdarBrahimi was in Istanbul on Saturday for talks with Turkish officials as tensions soared between Damascus and Ankara over...

DUBAI: Iran's oil exports have remained steady in recent months, Iran's OPEC governor said on Saturday, denying a report from the International Energy...

DUBAI: Iran would negotiate on halting higher-grade uranium enrichment if given fuel for a research reactor, senior officials said, reviving a previous offer...

TOKYO: Japan's state-backed turnaround fund and leading domestic manufacturers will invest 200 billion yen ($2.55 billion) in troubled chipmaker Renesas Electronics, a business...

ADEN: Yemeni tribesmen freed four Syrian and four Yemeni truck drivers on Saturday five days after they were abducted in an attempt to...

TOKYO: Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is facing mounting pressure following his justice minister's admission to past links with a yakuza gang, just...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A suicide bombing at a market in northwest Pakistan killed at least 10 people on Saturday, local security officials said.    The...

KABUL: Two foreigners, thought to be a Canadian and a U.S. citizen, were reported missing on Saturday by a provincial reconstruction team in...

Pakistani students pray for the recovery of Malala Yousafzai in Peshawar, yesterday.  ISLAMABAD: The next 36 to 48 hours will be critical for...

PESHAWAR: One of the Taliban’s most feared commanders, Maulana Fazlullah, carefully briefed two killers from his special hit squad on their next target....

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Thursday initiated a frantic move to pacify former Prime Minister...

ISLAMABAD: A bill for creating a Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP), drafted in the aftermath of the ephedrine scandal, suggests that a...

  PESHAWAR: Pakistan’s Federal Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour has been barred by the British government from travelling to the UK in retaliation for...

Inmates from the Cebu City provincial jail dance the worldwide hit “Gangnam Style” in Cebu City yesterday. Roughly 1,500 convicted murderers, rapists and...

MANILA: The uproar over the inclusion of the libel provision in the controversial Republic Act 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act has led...

MANILA: Former Philippine leader Gloria Arroyo was moved to intensive care yesterday to stop her suffering a possible heart attack, a week after...