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ICC drops charges against Kenyatta 06 Dec 2014 - 03:39 am

A surpporter of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (poster) celebrates in the streets of Nairobi yesterday. THE HAGUE: The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor...

Jury to decide charges in New York shooting 06 Dec 2014 - 03:39 am

A protester, demanding justice for Eric Garner, holds a placard while staging a “die-in” with dozens of others in downtown White Plains, New...

LEBANON HELMET TREE 06 Dec 2014 - 03:36 am

Group: ViewsMideast Credit: BLEIBEL Source: Daily Star - Beirut, Lebanon Keywords: COLOR LEBANON HELMET TREE 120414 Provider: CartoonArts International / The New York...

Ashton Carter named new Pentagon chief 06 Dec 2014 - 03:11 am

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama yesterday named Ashton Carter, a highly regarded technocrat, to lead the Pentagon as the US military embarks on the...

France to pay $60m to US for Nazi deportations 06 Dec 2014 - 03:11 am

WASHINGTON: In a landmark deal, France will pay $60m to the United States to be shared among American and foreign nationals deported to...

US spaceship completes flawless test flight 06 Dec 2014 - 03:10 am

CAPE CANAVERAL: A US spaceship designed to one day fly astronauts to Mars made a near-bullseye splashdown in the Pacific Ocean yesterday, wrapping...

South Africa’s Zuma says China a ‘non-colonial power’ 06 Dec 2014 - 03:10 am

BEIJING: South African President Jacob Zuma said yesterday that China’s growing influence in Africa would allow the continent to free itself from “colonial...

Twin bomb attack in Somali town kills nine 06 Dec 2014 - 03:09 am

MOGADISHU: At least nine people were killed yesterday in a twin bomb attack in the central Somali town of Baidoa, police said, the...

Slain Moroccan singer’s driver jailed for life 06 Dec 2014 - 03:09 am

RABAT: A court in the Moroccan city of Casablanca has condemned the chauffeur of popular traditional singer Abdellah El Bidaoui to life imprisonment...

British Museum lends statue to Russia 06 Dec 2014 - 03:03 am

LONDON/ATHENS: A British museum spirited one of the world’s most hotly disputed artistic masterpieces to Russia for a loan yesterday, causing an outcry...

20 dead as militants storm army camp 06 Dec 2014 - 01:16 am

Indian soldiers search for suspected militants as smoke rises from a bunker after a gunbattle in Mohra in Uri yesterday. URI, India: It...

Centre repeating empty words, say kin of 40 abducted Indians 06 Dec 2014 - 01:15 am

Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj (right) with the family members of Indians trapped in Iraq, in New Delhi yesterday. New Delhi: Increasing...

Kejriwal rapped over business class trip to Dubai 06 Dec 2014 - 01:14 am

NEW DELHI: The leader of India’s anti-corruption “Common Man’s Party”, a long-time scourge of the country’s elite, drew widespread ridicule yesterday after being...

Modi refuses to fire minister for derogatory remark 06 Dec 2014 - 01:12 am

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterdayrejected demands to fire a government minister whose derogatory comments about non-Hindus have led to a furore...

Doctor held after cataract surgery leaves 20 blind 06 Dec 2014 - 01:11 am

NEW DELHI: Police have detained two people after at least 20 patients who had free cataract surgery at a camp in northern India...

Germany vows to keep up support for Kabul 06 Dec 2014 - 01:06 am

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (second left) and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani inspect the guard of honour outside Federal Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, yesterday....

Noble blood 06 Dec 2014 - 12:58 am

The bloodied shawl and the school uniform put on by Nobel Peace Laureate Malala Yousafzai, when she was shot in Pakistan on October...

Blood banks faulted for infections 06 Dec 2014 - 12:57 am

ISLAMABAD: Lax oversight of blood banks means about a fifth of patients in Pakistan who get regular transfusions have been infected with hepatitis,...