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Philippines orders crackdown on privileged jailbirds 21 Dec 2014 - 06:20 am

MANILA: Philippine authorities have given privileged inmates in the country’s main prison until Christmas Eve to turn over their hidden guns, drugs and...

Japan scientists develop tiny adhesive sensors 21 Dec 2014 - 06:20 am

TOKYO: Scientists in Japan have developed a sticky sheet of tiny sensors that can be put directly on moving joints, beating hearts or...

Kurds expand assault on jihadists in Iraq 21 Dec 2014 - 06:09 am

Children play on a swing in what remains of the park of Safir Maalula Hotel, in the ancient Christian town of Maalula, 56km...

Erdogan praises crackdown on enemies 21 Dec 2014 - 06:08 am

Police spray water cannon to disperse a rally making its way to Kizilay Square in Turkey’s capital Ankara, as teachers demonstrated against the...

Tunisia votes today 21 Dec 2014 - 06:08 am

Employees from the Independent High Authority for Elections unload ballot boxes from a military vehicle for distribution to polling centres in the governorate...

Yemen protest 21 Dec 2014 - 06:07 am

Yemeni women take part in a protest against the Shia Houthi insurgency, in Sana’a, yesterday.

Egypt backs Palestinian UN resolution 21 Dec 2014 - 06:06 am

CAIRO: Egypt said yesterday it supports a draft resolution submitted by the Palestinians to the UN Security Council setting out terms for a...

Gaza crossing to reopen today 21 Dec 2014 - 06:06 am

CAIRO: Egypt is to reopen the Rafah border crossing with Gaza today for the second time in two months to allow those stranded...

Bahrain blast wounds three policemen 21 Dec 2014 - 06:05 am

MANAMA: A bomb blast in a Shia Muslim village in Bahrain late on Friday injured three policemen, the interior ministry said, in a...

Egypt receives 10 US Apache helicopters 21 Dec 2014 - 06:05 am

CAIRO: Egypt received 10 Apache helicopters from the United States in the past week, security sources said yesterday, a sign of easing tensions...

IS executes Syrian for aiding air strikes 21 Dec 2014 - 06:05 am

BEIRUT: The Islamic State group has publicly executed a Syrian it accused of planting tracking devices for deadly regime air strikes, SITE Intelligence...

100 foreigners trying to quit IS executed 21 Dec 2014 - 06:05 am

LONDON: The Islamic State extremist group has executed 100 of its own foreign fighters who tried to flee their headquarters in the Syrian...

Sudan postpones elections by 11 days 21 Dec 2014 - 06:04 am

KHARTOUM: Sudan’s electoral body said yesterday it had postponed elections planned for next year by 11 days to April 13, without giving reasons...

UN asks Israel to pay Lebanon $856m for oil spill 21 Dec 2014 - 06:04 am

UNITED NATIONS: Israel was asked by the UN General Assembly on Friday to compensate Lebanon for $856.4m in oil spill damages it caused...

Somali ex-warlord removed from sanctions list 21 Dec 2014 - 06:04 am

UNITED NATIONS: A former Somali warlord who renounced his alliance with the Islamist Shebab group this summer was removed from a UN sanctions...

Jordan Islamists threaten legal action over Israel deal 21 Dec 2014 - 06:03 am

AMMAN: Jordan’s main opposition Islamist party threatened yesterday to take legal action against anyone in the kingdom who signs a controversial gas deal...

Algeria army kills three Islamists 21 Dec 2014 - 06:03 am

ALGIERS: Algerian soldiers shot dead three Islamist gunmen yesterday in the Boumerdes area around 50 kilometres east of the capital, the defence ministry...

QF impresses at Darb Al Saai 21 Dec 2014 - 06:01 am

Visitors sign their names on a blackboard at Qatar Foundation’s National Day celebrations tent at Darb Al Saai. DOHA: Qatar Foundation (QF) wrapped...