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Thai junta leader Prayut warns against insulting monarchy 13 Sep 2014 - 06:27 am

BANGKOK: Thai junta leader Prayut Chan-Ocha yesterday said his regime would use legal, psychological and technological measures to protect the monarchy against defamation...

US teen faces grilling in Bali murder case 13 Sep 2014 - 06:27 am

JAKARTA: A US teenager detained in Bali in connection with the grisly murder of her mother was due to be questioned for a...

Former N-Irish leader Paisley dies aged 88 13 Sep 2014 - 06:26 am

First Minister of Northern Ireland, Peter Robinson, stands beside a portrait of late former First Minister Ian Paisley in the great hall of...

US exit 13 Sep 2014 - 06:26 am

US servicemen pull down the US flag for the last time during the closing ceremony at Warner Barracks at the US military grounds...

Scotland polls put ‘No’ camp ahead 13 Sep 2014 - 06:24 am

GLASGOW: Opinion polls gave campaigners for Scotland to stay in Britain a slight lead yesterday as First Minister Alex Salmond hit back at...

South Africa court finds Pistorius guilty of culpable homicide 13 Sep 2014 - 06:24 am

PRETORIA: Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius was convicted of culpable homicide yesterday, escaping the more serious charge of murder for the...

Poroshenko sees no military solution to crisis, vows reforms 13 Sep 2014 - 06:23 am

KIEV: Ukraine’s president said yesterday there could be no military solution to his country’s crisis and said he hoped “a very fragile” ceasefire...

Rousseff gaining on Silva in likely Brazil runoff race 13 Sep 2014 - 06:23 am

BRASILIA: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has narrowed the lead of her top challenger, Marina Silva, to one percentage point in a potential runoff...

US action not enough to bring stability: Turkey 13 Sep 2014 - 06:22 am

US Secretary of State John Kerry shaking hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a meeting in Ankara yesterday. ANKARA: Secretary of...

Hamas denies running ‘shadow govt’ in Gaza 13 Sep 2014 - 06:21 am

Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki (right), receiving Hamas Chief Khaled Meshaal in Tunis yesterday. TUNIS: The exiled leader of Hamas denied yesterday that the...

Rowhani with Putin 13 Sep 2014 - 06:20 am

Iranian President Hassan Rowhani (left), with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as they meet during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Dushanbe...

France to step up military assistance to Iraq 13 Sep 2014 - 06:20 am

BAGHDAD: President Francois Hollande said during a visit to Baghdad yesterday that France is ready to step up military assistance for Iraq, as...

Yemen rebels, officials to meet with UN to solve crisis 13 Sep 2014 - 06:19 am

SANA’A: Shia rebels and Yemeni officials met yesterday seeking to fine-tune a deal to end a standoff sparked by calls for the government...

Egypt urged to free activists who defied protest law 13 Sep 2014 - 06:16 am

CAIRO: Amnesty International called yesterday for the release of more than 20 demonstrators including two prominent female activists detained in June for defying...

US gives Lebanon Hellfire missiles, pledges aircraft 13 Sep 2014 - 06:15 am

BEIRUT: The United States has delivered Hellfire missiles to the Lebanese army and will also provide it with light aircraft including an armed...

43 Israeli soldiers protest abuses on Palestinians 13 Sep 2014 - 06:15 am

JERUSALEM: Forty-three reservists and former members of an elite Israeli army intelligence unit condemned alleged “abuses” of Palestinians in the occupied territories, in...

43 Israeli soldiers protest abuses on Palestinians 13 Sep 2014 - 06:15 am

Thousands mourn Palestinian prisoner dead in Israeli jail HEBRON: Some 4,000 mourners turned out yesterday for the West Bank funeral of a man...

US gives Lebanon Hellfire missiles, pledges aircraft 13 Sep 2014 - 06:14 am

BEIRUT: The United States has delivered Hellfire missiles to the Lebanese army and will also provide it with light aircraft including an armed...