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Meet adopts climate action document 15 Dec 2014 - 10:25 am

Peruvian Minister of Environment Manuel Pulgar-Vidal (right) and Executive Secretary of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Christiana Figueres (left) applauding after...

Haiti PM resigns amid political crisis 15 Dec 2014 - 10:25 am

PORT-AU-PRINCE: Haiti’s Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe announced his resignation early yesterday, following repeated calls for him to step down amid anti-government protests and...

GhostSwimmer vehicle 15 Dec 2014 - 10:24 am

A US Navy handout picture shows the GhostSwimmer vehicle, developed by the Chief of Naval Operations Rapid Innovation Cell project Silent NEMO, undergoing...

Battle of the Bulge 15 Dec 2014 - 10:23 am

Actors in period German uniforms take cover by a German Jagpanther tank destroyer as they take part in the reanactment of the Battle...

Bush had authorised interrogation: Cheney 15 Dec 2014 - 10:22 am

WASHINGTON: Former US vice-president Dick Cheney yesterday defended America’s now-banned programme that tortured Al Qaeda suspects, praising the CIA operatives who ran it...

Coalition partner accuses Cameron of ‘devastating’ spending cuts 15 Dec 2014 - 10:21 am

LONDON: The junior partner in Britain’s two-party coalition government, the Liberal Democrats, yesterday accused Prime Minister David Cameron of planning “devastating” spending cuts,...

UK lawmakers to ask for secret parts of CIA report 15 Dec 2014 - 10:21 am

LONDON: A powerful British parliamentary committee will ask the United States to hand over blacked out parts of a report into the CIA,...

US Senate okays $1.1trn spending bill, ends govt shutdown threat 15 Dec 2014 - 10:21 am

WASHINGTON: The US Senate on Saturday passed a $1.1 trillion spending bill that lifts the threat of a government shutdown as Congress attempts...

Families of Newtown school shooting victims plan lawsuits 15 Dec 2014 - 10:20 am

NEWTOWN: Parents of almost half the young children killed by a gunman at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, two years ago yesterday...

129 dead as ship capsizes in DR Congo 15 Dec 2014 - 10:20 am

LUBUMBASHI: At least 129 people drowned when a passenger ship capsized on Lake Tanganyika in the southeast of Democratic Republic of Congo, according...

Rights group office burnt down in Chechnya 15 Dec 2014 - 10:20 am

MOSCOW: Members at one of the last human rights groups active in Chechnya said yesterday that their office has been torched after they...

Oil workers to launch indefinite strike in Nigeria from today 15 Dec 2014 - 10:20 am

LAGOS: Nigeria’s two main oil workers’ unions said they would launch an indefinite strike today, threatening to hurt the output of Africa’s largest...

Kerry in Rome talks on Palestinian statehood 15 Dec 2014 - 10:19 am

(From left) The top Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, Ezzedine Al Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Ubaida, and Mussa Abu Marzuq greet supporters...

Uber case reignites women's fears 2 years after fatal gang-rape 15 Dec 2014 - 10:19 am

NEW DELHI: The class of middle-aged, male rickshaw drivers obediently raised their hands and loudly pledged to "respect and protect women" while plying...

Their choice 15 Dec 2014 - 10:19 am

Supporters of Tunisia’s President Moncef Marzouki wave flags during his presidential election campaign rally in Tunis yesterday. The run-off of the country’s first...

On the move 15 Dec 2014 - 10:18 am

A convoy of returning South Sudanese residents is seen along a dirt road to Bor, in Jonglei state. Around a million children in...

Show of force by Hamas in Gaza 15 Dec 2014 - 10:17 am

GAZA: Vowing to destroy Israel, Hamas paraded some 2,000 of its armed fighters and truck-mounted rockets through Gaza yesterday, marking its 27th anniversary...

Saudi security man shot dead in Shia area 15 Dec 2014 - 10:16 am

RIYADH: An unidentified attacker killed a member of Saudi Arabia’s security forces yesterday, police said in a statement on state media, near a...