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Russia backs rebel vote in Kiev 29 Oct 2014 - 01:40 am

KIEV: Moscow has announced it will recognise separatist polls in Ukraine next weekend, fuelling tensions with the country’s newly elected pro-western leaders as...

Unrest in Burkina Faso 29 Oct 2014 - 01:39 am

Burkina Faso riot police face opposition supporters in Ouagadougou yesterday as hundreds battled police after a mass rally against plans to let the...

Another mass grave shocks Mexico 29 Oct 2014 - 01:39 am

MEXICO CITY: Mexico recoiled in fresh horror yesterday over the discovery of yet another mass grave, in the futile monthlong search for 43...

US nurse leaves hospital after Ebola cure 29 Oct 2014 - 01:38 am

ATLANTA: The second of two American nurses who became infected with Ebola while treating a Liberian man who died of the disease in...

Canadians pay tribute to soldier killed in terror attack 29 Oct 2014 - 01:36 am

OTTAWA: Thousands of mourners lined the streets of the Canadian city of Hamilton yesterday for the funeral procession of a soldier killed last...

UN votes to lift US embargo on Cuba 29 Oct 2014 - 01:33 am

UNITED NATIONS: For the 23rd straight year, the United Nations voted yesterday in favour of lifting the US embargo on Cuba, with Iran...

UK tightens security at top tourist site 29 Oct 2014 - 01:33 am

LONDON: Armed soldiers have been deployed at a top tourist attraction in the heart of London’s government district as a precautionary measure after...

Vaccine trials to start this week in Switzerland 29 Oct 2014 - 01:32 am

GENEVA: Ebola vaccine trials are set to start in Switzerland this week after receiving the green light from the country’s authorities, the World...

Italy president testifies in mafia case 29 Oct 2014 - 01:31 am

ROME: Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano testified for more than three hours yesterday in an unprecedented appearance in a major trial that accuses the...

Mugabe skirts raging succession battle 29 Oct 2014 - 01:31 am

HARARE: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe opened parliament yesterday, steering clear of a succession struggle raging in his ZANU-PF party following his wife’s sensational...

India, Vietnam to boost energy, defence ties 29 Oct 2014 - 12:28 am

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (left) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speak at a function in New Delhi yesterday. New Delhi:...

Pushkar Fair 29 Oct 2014 - 12:26 am

A camel herder walks his camels at Pushkar Fair in Rajasthan yesterday. Thousands of animals, mainly camels, are brought to the fair to...

Cleaning up for Chhath festival 29 Oct 2014 - 12:23 am

A worker cleans the banks of Yamuna river on the eve of the Chhath festival in New Delhi yesterday. Chhath is an ancient...

Bahrain bans opposition for three months 29 Oct 2014 - 12:23 am

Sheikh Ali Salman, Secretary General of Al Wefaq (centre), meets top members of the party during a closed-door meeting in Manama yesterday. DUBAI:...

Iraq Kurdish fighters head to Kobane 29 Oct 2014 - 12:20 am

A convoy of Kurdish peshmerga fighters drive through Arbil after leaving a base in northern Iraq, on their way to Kobani, yesterday. ARBIL/MURSITPINAR:...

Syrian neighbours risk ‘host-country fatigue’, Berlin meet hears 29 Oct 2014 - 12:19 am

From left: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam, German Minister for Economic Cooperation Gerd Mueller and President of the...

New Turkish Presidential Palace 29 Oct 2014 - 12:17 am

Workers clean the area in front of the new Turkish Presidential Palace prior to an official reception on Republic Day in Ankara, Turkey,...

Israel denies barring Palestinians from buses 29 Oct 2014 - 12:16 am

JERUSALEM: An Israeli official denied yesterday the existence of a blanket ban on Palestinians sharing buses with settlers in the occupied West Bank,...