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Joko Widodo submits new cabinet list 25 Oct 2014 - 04:23 am

JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo submitted a revised list of cabinet ministers to the country’s anti-graft agency on Thursday, in the hope that...

Cameron vows not to pay EU bill for Britain 25 Oct 2014 - 04:23 am

BRUSSELS: David Cameron furiously rejected a surprise demand from Brussels for more than ¤2bn in backdated charges yesterday, setting up a new showdown...

Queen joins Twitter club 25 Oct 2014 - 04:22 am

Queen Elizabeth II sends her first tweet during a visit to open the ‘Information Age’ exhibition at the Science Museum in London yesterday....

Putin accuses US of spoiling world order 25 Oct 2014 - 04:21 am

LAURA, Russia: Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States yesterday of endangering global security by imposing a “unilateral diktat” on the rest...

Canada vows tougher laws as citizens worry in face of attacks 25 Oct 2014 - 04:21 am

OTTAWA: Canada vowed yesterday to toughen laws against terrorism as an opinion poll showed a majority of Canadians lacked confidence in their security...

British cancer boy Ashya feeling better 25 Oct 2014 - 04:21 am

PRAGUE: Five-year-old British brain tumour patient Ashya King is feeling better after 30 sessions of proton therapy in Prague and is heading back...

Doctor with Ebola in New York hospital; nurse declared virus-free 25 Oct 2014 - 04:20 am

NEW YORK: A doctor who worked in West Africa with Ebola patients was in an isolation unit in New York City yesterday after...

US looking into possible chlorine gas attack in Iraq: Kerry 25 Oct 2014 - 04:09 am

An explosion after an apparent airstrike by the international anti-Islamic State (IS) coalition on Kobane, Syria, as seen from the Turkish side of...

Police kill six militants ahead of key Tunisian poll 25 Oct 2014 - 04:08 am

Members of the Tunisian military celebrate after a successful operation against gunmen in the town of Oued Ellil near the capital Tunis yesterday....

WW3 WORLD WAR FLAG IWO JIMA RUSSIA UKRAINE ISIS MIDEAST 25 Oct 2014 - 04:06 am

Group: ViewsAmerica Credit: BLEIBEL Source: Daily Star - Beirut, Lebanon Keywords: COLOR WW3 WORLD WAR FLAG IWO JIMA RUSSIA UKRAINE ISIS MIDEAST 102414...

Palestine defies US, issues statehood ultimatum 25 Oct 2014 - 04:04 am

Ramallah: Palestine’s chief peace negotiator has laid out in the clearest terms yet plans to establish an independent Palestinian state within three years,...

Saudi Shias protest death sentences 25 Oct 2014 - 04:02 am

Shia protestors take part in a demonstration against the death sentence on prominent cleric and anti-government protest leader Nimr Al Nimr, in the...

Syrian air strikes kill 10 children, 5 women in Aleppo 25 Oct 2014 - 03:59 am

BEIRUT: Ten children and five women have been killed in Syrian government air strikes in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group...

Suspicious powder sent to foreign missions in Istanbul 25 Oct 2014 - 03:59 am

ISTANBUL: Suspicious envelopes containing a yellow powder were sent yesterday to five Istanbul consulates of countries involved in airstrikes against IS militants, including...

Sinai attacks kill 28 Egyptian soldiers 25 Oct 2014 - 03:58 am

ISMAILIA, Egypt: Two attacks in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula killed at least 28 security personnel yesterday, security sources said, in some of the worst...

Masked men burn Saudi consulate cars in Egypt 25 Oct 2014 - 03:58 am

CAIRO/ISMAILIA: Masked men set fire to two cars belonging to the consulate of Saudi Arabia in the Egyptian city of Suez yesterday morning,...

Palestinian boy shot dead at West Bank protest 25 Oct 2014 - 03:58 am

RAMALLAH: A Palestinian boy was shot dead during clashes between Israeli soldiers and stone-throwing protesters in the occupied West Bank yesterday, medics and...

Suspicious powder sent to foreign missions in Istanbul 25 Oct 2014 - 03:57 am

ISTANBUL: Suspicious envelopes containing a yellow powder were sent yesterday to five Istanbul consulates of countries involved in airstrikes against IS militants, including...