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Pakistan to help China fight Xinjiang militants 09 Nov 2014 - 02:52 am

BEIJING: Pakistan will help China with its fight against extremists Beijing says are active in its unruly far western region of Xinjiang, the...

Pakistan wins investment worth $42bn 09 Nov 2014 - 02:51 am

BEIJING: China yesterday promised neighbouring Pakistan investment worth $42bn, an official said. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif oversaw the signing of 19 agreements...

17 militants killed in tribal district 09 Nov 2014 - 02:51 am

PESHAWAR: Pakistani security forces killed at least 17 militants in heavy overnight shelling in a restive northwestern tribal area, officials said yesterday. The...

New ISI chief takes charge 09 Nov 2014 - 02:51 am

ISLAMABAD: Lt-General Rizwan Akhtar took over as head of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) yesterday, succeeding retired Lt-General Zaheerul Islam. “Gen. Akhtar has...

Musharraf told to appear in court 09 Nov 2014 - 02:51 am

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court yesterday said former military ruler Pervez Musharraf must appear at a hearing in December over a cleric’s death during...

Panel ignores report on lawmakers’ fake medical bills 09 Nov 2014 - 02:50 am

ISLAMABAD: A report detailing irregularities in issuing medicines and medical allowances to lawmakers was not tabled at a meeting of a parliamentary panel...

N Korea frees two American prisoners 09 Nov 2014 - 02:50 am

A composite file photo showing Kenneth Bae (left) and Matthew Miller. WASHINGTON: Two Americans serving lengthy prison sentences in North Korea were released...

Umbrella revolution 09 Nov 2014 - 02:49 am

Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong open their umbrellas for 87 seconds, marking the 87 rounds of tear gas that were fired by police...

Asia-Pacific backs China on drive against corruption 09 Nov 2014 - 02:43 am

BEIJING: China secured backing from Asia-Pacific ministers yesterday to deepen anti-graft efforts, in a move that dovetails with a high-profile Communist Party “fox...

Sri Lanka rejects UN remark on war probe 09 Nov 2014 - 02:43 am

GENEVA: Sri Lanka yesterday angrily rejected accusations by the UN rights chief that it was sabotaging a war crimes probe into the country’s...

China, Japan foreign ministers agree to reduce border tension 09 Nov 2014 - 02:43 am

BEIJING: The foreign ministers of China and Japan held their first formal talks in more than two years yesterday, a day after the...

Berlin Wall’s peaceful fall a miracle: Merkel 09 Nov 2014 - 02:43 am

Thousands of people look at the balloon lanterns at remains of the Berlin Wall at Topography of Terror Documentation Centre between Martin Gropius...

Catalans vote today 09 Nov 2014 - 02:42 am

A man waves a pro-Catalan independence flag known as the Estelada as others take part in a Sardana dance near the Cathedral in...

World on brink of new Cold War: Gorbachev 09 Nov 2014 - 02:40 am

BERLIN: Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned in a speech here yesterday that East-West tensions over the Ukraine crisis were threatening to push...

Mexican gang admits mass killing 09 Nov 2014 - 02:40 am

AYOTZINAPA: Mexico was confronted yesterday with possibly one of the grisliest massacres in years of drug violence after gang suspects confessed to incinerating...

Gitmo closure by 2016 unrealistic: Official 09 Nov 2014 - 02:40 am

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE: The commander of the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay believes there is little chance of the controversial facility...

Obama picks Lynch to be the next AG 09 Nov 2014 - 02:39 am

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama yesterday picked Brooklyn federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch to be the next US Attorney General, praising her as someone...

Darfur refugee camp dwellers stalked by militia 09 Nov 2014 - 02:38 am

Sudanese displaced women carry humanitarian aid supplies provided by the US development agency USAID in the Kalma camp for internally displaced people (IDP)...