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BAGHDAD: A US citizen convicted of links with Al Qaeda has been sentenced to life in prison by an Iraqi court, a copy...

DUBAI: Shops in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar stayed shut and police patrolled the area yesterday as authorities struggled to restore normalcy a day after...

CAIRO: An Egyptian court yesterday convicted a Hosni Mubarak-era steel magnate of money laundering, sentencing him to seven years in prison and fining...

ROME: The Estelle, the latest ship to try to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza as part of the “Freedom Flotilla” movement, will set...

Jeddah: A Saudi security chief warned yesterday that the Muslim kingdom will not tolerate any attempt to exploit the Haj pilgrimage to stage...

STOCKHOLM: Early October means it’s time for the annual Nobel Prize announcements and frenzied guessing over possible winners, with 231 Peace Prize nominees...

MOSCOW: Russian diplomats and security chiefs denied yesterday sending their spies to the United States to purchase high-tech military electronics and detonators in...

MADRID: Spanish police said yesterday that they had arrested a 21-year-old man as he received 140kg of explosives and chemicals to carry out...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin hits retirement age on Sunday but he appears determined to prove that 60 is the new 40. In...

The historian Eric Hobsbawm is rightly being mourned as a great intellectual of modern times. Yet he was more than a powerful historian...

DAMASCUS: The UN Security Council strongly condemned Syria over its deadly shelling of a Turkish border town as regime forces pounded the city...

NEW DELHI: US drug giant Pfizer said Friday it will appeal against an Indian ruling overturning a patent for a cancer drug, saying...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's anti-graft body is investigating the wedding of a top official's son -- attended by around 130,000 people -- after opposition...

ISTANBUL: Two suspects in the killing of U.S. ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens have been detained at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport, Turkish broadcaster Kanal...

JERUSALEM: A US tourist on Friday opened fire in the lobby of a hotel in the Israeli Red Sea resort town of Eilat...

SYDNEY: Australia on Friday unveiled a colossal radio telescope that will allow astronomers to detect distant galaxies and explore the depths of the...

MANILA: Philippine President Benigno Aquino defended a new cybercrime law Friday amid a storm of protests from critics who say it will severely...

MUBI, Nigeria:An explosion shook an area around an outdoor bar in the city of Jalingo in eastern Nigeria, police said Friday, with local...