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Funeral 27 Sep 2014 - 03:02 am

A boy holds a poster of a slain Shia Houthi rebel, who was killed in recent fighting against government forces, during the rebel’s...

IS tightens grip on Syria town; UK joins coalition 27 Sep 2014 - 03:01 am

F-16 fighter jets prepare to take off the military air base in Florennes yesterday. Belgium plans to send six F-16 fighter jets to...

Erdogan signals more active role 27 Sep 2014 - 02:59 am

ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday signalled Turkey would take a more active role in the coalition against Islamic State (IS) militants following...

US-led strikes compound humanitarian plight: ICRC 27 Sep 2014 - 02:52 am

GENEVA: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said yesterday that US-led air strikes on Islamist insurgents in Iraq and Syria had...

Nine Japanese said to have joined IS 27 Sep 2014 - 02:51 am

TOKYO: Nine Japanese nationals have joined Islamic State (IS), Japan’s former air force chief, Toshio Tamogami, quoted a senior Israeli government official as...

New sanctions warning to South Sudan leaders 27 Sep 2014 - 02:51 am

NEW YORK: The United States warned of possible new sanctions on South Sudanese leaders as President Salva Kiir snubbed talks in New York...

No progress in Iran nuclear talks 27 Sep 2014 - 02:50 am

NEW YORK: Top US diplomat John Kerry was to meet his Iranian counterpart for a second time in two days, amid reports that...

EBOLA AFRICA LIBERIA TRUCK VIRUS HEALTH 27 Sep 2014 - 02:46 am

Group: ViewsAfrica Credit: SAKURAI Source: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung - Essen, Germany Keywords: COLOR EBOLA AFRICA LIBERIA TRUCK VIRUS HEALTH 092214 Provider: CartoonArts International...

Ukip takes on Labour, Tories as polls loom 27 Sep 2014 - 01:52 am

Leader of the UK Independence Party Nigel Farage speaks to delegates at their Party conference in Doncaster, northern England, yesterday. DONCASTER, United Kingdom:...

Clooney wedding 27 Sep 2014 - 01:51 am

A gondolier waits for customers near the Aman hotel on the Grand Canal in Venice yesterday. George Clooney and his fiancée Amal Alamuddin...

Chicago air traffic centre fire grounds 1,500 flights 27 Sep 2014 - 01:51 am

Passengers wait in line at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago CHICAGO: A fire set by an employee at a Chicago-area air traffic control...

Three dead, 11 missing in Brazil boat accident 27 Sep 2014 - 01:50 am

RIO DE JANEIRO: Search and rescue teams yesterday combed the Paraguay River in search of 11 tourists still missing a day after their...

Former DJ Travis given suspended jail term 27 Sep 2014 - 01:50 am

LONDON: Dave Lee Travis, a leading BBC radio DJ in the 1970s and 1980s whose shows once delighted Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi,...

Dreamliner resumes flight after emergency landing 27 Sep 2014 - 01:49 am

LONDON/WARSAW: A Boeing Co Dreamliner travelling from Chicago to Poland resumed its flight yesterday after making an emergency landing at Glasgow, Scotland, to...

40 people killed in Xinjiang explosions 27 Sep 2014 - 01:47 am

University Professor Ilham Tohti BEIJING: Forty “rioters” were killed in China’s far-western Xinjiang region following a series of explosions last Sunday, the worst...

Students join HK democracy protests 27 Sep 2014 - 01:46 am

Students who joined democracy protests attend a lecture near Tamar Park in Hong Kong yesterday. HONG KONG: Nearly 1,000 Hong Kong secondary school...

Hanoi’s deforestation 27 Sep 2014 - 01:44 am

Workers prepare to unload a big tree from a truck before it is replanted at a new residential complex in the suburbs of...

Australia plans to ship refugees to Cambodia 27 Sep 2014 - 01:34 am

SYDNEY: Australia plans to start sending asylum-seekers to Cambodia by the end of the year and will pay the Southeast Asian nation Aus$40m...