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Reforms in focus as Myanmar hosts leaders 13 Nov 2014 - 01:18 am

Leaders pose for a family photo at the 25th Association of South East Asian Nations summit and Related Summits at the Myanmar International...

China shows off new stealth fighter jet 13 Nov 2014 - 01:17 am

ZHUHAI: China’s new stealth jet fighter rocketed skywards yesterday as Beijing put on an unprecedented display of openness — and military force —...

Island quarantine for Philippine UN troops returning from Liberia 13 Nov 2014 - 01:15 am

MANILA: More than a hundred Filipino UN troops returning from Ebola-hit West Africa were swiftly packed off to an isolated island yesterday as...

Time for reset in Pak-Afghan ties: US envoy 13 Nov 2014 - 01:10 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan have a historic opportunity to reset long-fraught ties following the election of democratic governments in both countries, the United...

Afghan poppy cultivation at record high 13 Nov 2014 - 01:05 am

KABUL: Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan reached a record high in 2014, a United Nations report revealed yesterday, highlighting the failure of the...

Gunmen kill five shopkeepers 13 Nov 2014 - 01:04 am

QUETTA: Unidentified gunmen yesterday killed five people in Pakistan’s troubled southwest in an apparently ethnically motivated attack, police said. The incident took place...

Pakistan likely to revive traditional justice system 13 Nov 2014 - 01:04 am

ISLAMABAD: The government of Pakistan has prepared the third draft bill to introduce the Panchayat and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) system in the...

Aid worker stabbed 13 Nov 2014 - 01:03 am

MAZAR-I-SHARIF: A French aid worker with the Red Cross in Afghanistan was stabbed in the throat by a prisoner during a visit to...

Some reforms have slowed down: Obama 13 Nov 2014 - 01:03 am

NAYPYIDAW: US President Barack Obama expressed concerns ahead of a visit to Myanmar starting yesterday that the pace of democratic reforms in the...

Japan mulls snap polls 13 Nov 2014 - 01:02 am

TOKYO: Japan could face snap elections next month, two years ahead of schedule, if Prime Minister Shinzo Abe moves to pump his public...

More Cambodia land rights activists jailed 13 Nov 2014 - 01:02 am

PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian court yesterday sentenced three female land rights activists and a defrocked monk to one year in prison each after...

Glass walk 12 Nov 2014 - 11:22 pm

A visitors on the glass walk at Tower Bridge in London yesterday. The glass walkway which provides visitors with a bird’s eye view...

Romanian run-off vote 12 Nov 2014 - 11:19 pm

A supporter of Romania’s Prime Minister Victor Ponta waits for him in Dobrun village, southern Romania, yesterday. Ponta is widely expected to win...

Spain brands Catalan vote a failure 12 Nov 2014 - 11:16 pm

MADRID: Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy yesterday branded the Catalonia region’s symbolic vote on independence a failure and rejected its call for a...

Republicans criticise Obama’s climate deal 12 Nov 2014 - 11:15 pm

WASHINGTON: House Speaker John Boehner warned that President Barack Obama was waging a “crusade” against affordable energy after the United States and China...

Armenia says Azerbaijan shot down military copter 12 Nov 2014 - 11:15 pm

BAKU/YEREVAN: Armenia’s Defence Ministry accused Azerbaijan’s armed forces yesterday of shooting down a military helicopter belonging to Nagorno-Karabakh, a region in Azerbaijan which...

Russia denies Nato claims over troops in Ukraine 12 Nov 2014 - 11:15 pm

MOSCOW: Moscow yesterday denied it was ramping up its military presence in neighbouring Ukraine after Nato sounded the alarm over columns of Russian...

At least 10 feared dead at Nigerian blast 12 Nov 2014 - 11:15 pm

KANO: At least 10 people were feared dead yesterday after a suspected suicide bombing at a Nigerian teaching college as students were sitting...