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IS praises attackers 10 Jan 2015 - 01:56 am

DUBAI: The Islamic State (IS) militant group praised the gunmen behind this week’s killings at the Paris headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo weekly...

Leftist group retracts claim of Istanbul attack 10 Jan 2015 - 01:55 am

ISTANBUL: A far-left Turkish group yesterday retracted its claim of responsibility for a suicide bombing of a police station in central Istanbul this...

Muslims with tattoos urged to repent 10 Jan 2015 - 01:55 am

Ankara: Turkey’s top religious body yesterday urged Muslims unable to remove their tattoos to beg God for forgiveness, the latest intervention in a...

UN confirms S Sudan massacre 10 Jan 2015 - 01:53 am

Juba: Rebels in South Sudan slaughtered at least 353 civilians in April last year, including people sheltering in a mosque, hospital and a...

Egypt begins doubling Sinai buffer zone 10 Jan 2015 - 01:53 am

Cairo: Egypt began work on doubling the width of a buffer zone along the border with the Gaza Strip to prevent militants infiltrating...

Attacker met Qaeda preacher in Yemen 10 Jan 2015 - 01:42 am

Members of the French police special forces evacuate hostages including a child (centre) after launching the assault at a kosher grocery store in...

Battle of New Orleans remembrance 10 Jan 2015 - 01:36 am

Re-enactors of the Battle of New Orleans march back to their camp from the re-created battlefield on the 200th anniversary of the battle...

West facing mass casualty attacks, warns British spy chief 10 Jan 2015 - 01:34 am

London: Islamist militants in Syria are planning “mass casualty attacks” on Western targets, the head of British spy agency MI5 has warned, saying...

Paris turns into war zone in hunt for attackers 10 Jan 2015 - 01:34 am

Paris/Dammartin-en-Goële: Pools of blood, shattered glass and bodies in the street — this was the day when the heart of France turned into...

Cuba frees 36 activists in two days: Dissidents 10 Jan 2015 - 01:33 am

HAVANA: One of Cuba’s most prominent dissident groups said yesterday that 36 opposition activists, including a popular hip-hop artist, have been freed in...

Abu Hamza gets life in prison on US conviction 10 Jan 2015 - 01:33 am

NEW YORK: Radical imam Abu Hamza Al Masri was sentenced to life in prison yesterday, eight months after he was convicted of federal...

Blast damages railway track 10 Jan 2015 - 01:31 am

Pakistani railway workers start their work for replacement of damaged railway track in Jaffarabad. A bomb blew up a section of the track...

Aspiring champions 10 Jan 2015 - 01:30 am

Afghan youths play football in a field at the Chaman-e- Huzuri ground in Kabul yesterday. Football is a popular sport in the war-torn...

SC can strike down fresh anti-terror law 10 Jan 2015 - 01:29 am

ISLAMABAD: Former chief justice of Pakistan Justice (Rtd) Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui has said that the Supreme Court (SC) can strike down the 21st Constitutional...

Islamabad police to act against Jamia Hafsa over IS video 10 Jan 2015 - 01:28 am

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad police department has decided to register criminal cases against the Shohada Foundation and students of Jamia Hafsa for ‘waging war’ and...

Bid to declare Imran’s NA seat vacant 10 Jan 2015 - 01:28 am

ISLAMABAD: Nine members of the National Assembly belonging to the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) of Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) have...

Pakistan govt approves $15m for GB hospitals 10 Jan 2015 - 01:28 am

ISLAMABAD: The Planning Commission of Pakistan has approved Rs1.5bn ($15m) for the purchase of modern machinery for government hospitals in Gilgit-Baltistan. The money...

Peshawar schools to reopen on Monday 10 Jan 2015 - 01:27 am

Peshawar: Schools in the restive northwestern Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will re-open on Monday, an official said, after an extended break following...