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Palestinian solidarity 17 Nov 2014 - 06:44 am

Indonesian Muslims attend a rally showing support for Palestinians and calling for the protection of Al Aqsa mosque outside the United States embassy...

Special powers for Aquino this month 17 Nov 2014 - 06:43 am

MANILA: Congress aims to give President Aquino special powers within the month to resolve a looming electricity shortage next year. House of Representatives...

20 die in fresh unrest in southern Philippines 17 Nov 2014 - 06:42 am

MANILA: Twenty people died in a single day in the southern Philippines following a fresh outbreak of unrest in the strife-torn region, officials...

China opens first leg of high-speed railway in Xinjiang 17 Nov 2014 - 06:42 am

BEIJING: China opened the first stretch of a new high-speed railway in the western region of Xinjiang yesterday, a milestone in the central...

Myanmar students protest against education law 17 Nov 2014 - 06:42 am

YANGON: Hundreds of Myanmar university students marched through Yangon for a third day in a row yesterday, in a rare and illegal protest...

Rally in support of Aafia 17 Nov 2014 - 06:41 am

Protesters carry portraits of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist who is currently serving a prison term in the US, as they stage a...

Legislator hurt in suicide bombing 17 Nov 2014 - 06:41 am

Afghan security officials inspect the scene of a suicide car bomb attack that targeted a female legislator Shukria Barakzai in Kabul, yesterday. At...

Major among four soldiers killed in attack 17 Nov 2014 - 06:40 am

DERA ISMAIL KHAN/WANA: Four Pakistani soldiers were killed and at least eight were missing after insurgents using rockets and grenades stormed a checkpoint...

Govt looking to outlaw protests inside Islamabad’s Red Zone 17 Nov 2014 - 06:40 am

ISLAMABAD: Following months of protests on Constitution Avenue that all but crippled the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for some time, the...

Haqqani sanctuary a thing of the past: Army 17 Nov 2014 - 06:39 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has ruled out any discrimination in its on-going operation against militants in North Waziristan, with a military spokesman stressing that the...

Man suspected of planning to kill Musharraf arrested 17 Nov 2014 - 06:39 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Lahore police claimed yesterday to have arrested a hardened criminal, allegedly involved in a conspiracy to murder former president Pervez Musharaf,...

G20 endorses India’s concerns on black money 17 Nov 2014 - 06:34 am

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the G20 Summit in Brisbane yesterday. Brisbane: The G20 Summit...

Election campaign 17 Nov 2014 - 06:33 am

Hina Bhat (left), a candidate for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), during her door to door campaign for upcoming assembly election on the outskirts...

The NR Eye: Government should push through new emigration law 17 Nov 2014 - 06:30 am

by Moiz Mannan Be it the ‘sweat shops’ or battle grounds of West Asia or the ‘body shops’ in America, thousands of gullible...

Modi unveils Gandhi statue 17 Nov 2014 - 06:29 am

Brisbane: Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday unveiled a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in this Australian city, saying that the Mahatma’s legacy is still...

Pakistan envoy moots sister-city relations 17 Nov 2014 - 06:28 am

Hyderabad: Pakistan’s High Commissioner Abdul Basit yesterday mooted the idea of sister city relations between the two Hyderabad cities - one in India’s...

Civil service schools told to ditch German 17 Nov 2014 - 06:28 am

NEW DELHI: India’s right-wing Hindu nationalist government has ordered the country’s civil service schools to replace the teaching of German with an Indian...

BJP, Trinamool clash in Bengal village; one killed 17 Nov 2014 - 06:27 am

Kolkata: One person was killed and another injured as Trinamool Congress and BJP supporters clashed in villages in West Bengal’s Birbhum district yesterday,...