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Stacked up graves 27 Oct 2014 - 06:55 am

A child climbs a wooden ladder beside stacked graves at the Navotas Municipal Cemetery in Manila yesterday. Millions of Filipinos will soon flock...

Indonesia gets first woman foreign minister 27 Oct 2014 - 06:54 am

JAKARTA: New Indonesian President Joko Widodo yesterday unveiled a cabinet including the country’s first female foreign minister, as well as political allies and...

UN seeks China help in referring N Korea to ICC 27 Oct 2014 - 06:54 am

UNITED NATIONS: The chief UN investigator into human rights cases in North Korea said yesterday he has appealed to China to support calls...

Vietnam arrests top banker over fraud 27 Oct 2014 - 06:53 am

HANOI: Police have arrested one of Vietnam’s richest businessmen as part of an investigation into banking fraud that could deepen investor concerns about...

Beijing to tighten control on military spending 27 Oct 2014 - 06:52 am

BEIJING: China intends to improve efficiency in military spending through tighter monitoring of how funds are used, state media reported yesterday. Under the...

Ukraine: Pro-West parties and nationalists win vote 27 Oct 2014 - 06:52 am

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko casting his ballot at a polling station in Kiev yesterday. KIEV: Pro-Western and nationalist parties swept Ukraine’s parliamentary election...

Brazilians vote 27 Oct 2014 - 06:50 am

Brazil’s President and Workers’ Party (PT) presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff gestures to photographers after voting in the run-off election in Porto Alegre yesterday....

US nurse says ‘made to feel like a criminal’ 27 Oct 2014 - 06:48 am

NEW YORK: Illinois joined New York and New Jersey in imposing mandatory quarantines for people arriving with a risk of having contracted Ebola...

Thirty adolescents abducted in northeast Nigeria 27 Oct 2014 - 06:48 am

MAIDUGURI: Around 30 adolescents — some of them girls aged as young as 11 — have been abducted in northeast Nigeria over the...

No laughing matter: Clown terror spreads in France 27 Oct 2014 - 06:48 am

PARIS: A wave of panic sparked by evil clowns stalking French towns has spread to the south of France where police on Saturday...

Britain hints at curbing migrant workers from EU 27 Oct 2014 - 06:47 am

LONDON: Limiting the number of European Union citizens who are allowed to work in Britain is among proposals to curb immigration being looked...

Uruguay votes for new president 27 Oct 2014 - 06:47 am

MONTEVIDEO: Uruguayans voted yesterday in a presidential election that has the leftist ruling coalition battling to hold onto power for a third term...

Bashir wins party backing for vote, set to extend 25-year rule 27 Oct 2014 - 06:46 am

Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al Bashir speaks during the fourth General Conference of the ruling National Congress Party in Khartoum yesterday. Khartoum: Sudan’s...

Cairo court sentences 23 protesters to three years 27 Oct 2014 - 06:45 am

Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah (left) and his mother Laila Soueif react after hearing a court sentence against Fattah’s sister, Sanaa...

Kurds thwart IS bid to cut off Kobane 27 Oct 2014 - 06:43 am

People watch as smoke rises from the town of Kobane, also known as Ain Al Arab, at the Turkish border near the southeastern...

Yes to democracy 27 Oct 2014 - 06:42 am

Rached Ghannouchi (centre), leader of the Tunisian Islamist party Ennahda, gestures with his wife and two daughters Yousra (left) and Soumaya (second left)...

Egypt defers talks on Gaza’s future 27 Oct 2014 - 06:41 am

cairo: Egypt announced yesterday it was postponing talks in Cairo on cementing the Gaza war ceasefire after closing its border with the Palestinian...

Muslim Brotherhood condemns Sinai attacks 27 Oct 2014 - 06:41 am

CAIRO: Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood has condemned attacks in the Sinai Peninsula that killed at least 33 security personnel on Friday but said...