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Delhi shops stop selling US, Western products over Gaza 14 Aug 2014 - 09:39 pm

New Delhi: Gaza is impacting the national capital in more ways than one. Revlon, Loreal, Garnier and other products with US and western...

Rally for Gaza peace 14 Aug 2014 - 09:37 pm

Filipino protesters hold placards during a rally against Israel’s continued military strikes on the Gaza Strip, in front of the US embassy in...

Army, Marine soldiers get new ‘spouses’ 14 Aug 2014 - 09:36 pm

President Benigno S Aquino III (left) hands over a M4 rifle to an army soldier in Camp Aguinaldo, yesterday. MANILA: Army and Marine...

China blocks travel for papal visit 14 Aug 2014 - 09:35 pm

Pope Francis smiles after a meeting with bishops at the Korean Bishops’s Conference in Seoul yesterday. SEOUL: Pope Francis sent an unprecedented message...

Thai govt house 14 Aug 2014 - 09:34 pm

A worker trims plants to welcome the new cabinet at the Government House in Bangkok yesterday. Thai National Legislative Assembly is expected to...

Where’s the bell? 14 Aug 2014 - 09:33 pm

A Myanmarese ship yesterday joins in the search for the Great Bell of Dhammazedi, believed to have sunk in Rangoon River 400 years...

Pope Francis wishes end to show of force 14 Aug 2014 - 09:33 pm

SEOUL: Pope Francis called for an end to “displays of force” on the divided Korean peninsula yesterday, as North Korea marked his arrival...

Daughter in US tourist killing takes mental test 14 Aug 2014 - 09:32 pm

DENPASAR: Indonesian police yesterday ran psychiatric tests on the teenage daughter of an American woman found dead inside a suitcase on the resort...

Top US general visits wartime foes 14 Aug 2014 - 09:32 pm

HANOI: The most senior US military officer to visit Vietnam for decades held talks with Communist Party officials in Hanoi yesterday, in the...

Two N Koreans swim past sea border to South 14 Aug 2014 - 09:31 pm

SEOUL: Two North Koreans swam across the sea border with South Korea yesterday, Seoul’s Unification Ministry said, in a rare maritime defection across...

449 Filipino workers evacuated from Libya 14 Aug 2014 - 09:29 pm

MANILA: A Philippine-chartered ship evacuated 449 Filipinos and a small number of other foreigners from Libya yesterday, the foreign department said, due to...

Senators seek probe after Metro Rail Transit 3 crash 14 Aug 2014 - 09:29 pm

MANILA: Three senators have filed resolutions asking for an inquiry into the accident involving the Metro Rail Transit 3 (MRT 3), that left...

Three nabbed for killing Japanese, fiancée in Manila 14 Aug 2014 - 09:29 pm

MANILA: Three Filipino men have been detained after confessing to dumping the bodies of a missing Japanese man and his Filipina girlfriend at...

Manila vice-mayor defends truck ban as port congestion worsens 14 Aug 2014 - 09:28 pm

MANILA: Manila Vice-Mayor Isko Moreno renewed yesterday his defence of the city government’s truck ban, scored by businessmen and some officials for disrupting...

Palparan appeals against prison transfer order 14 Aug 2014 - 09:28 pm

MANILA: Nabbed kidnapping and serious illegal detention suspect Jovito Palparan Jr, a retired Army major general, filed a motion yesterday to stop his...

Pakistan anti-govt protest marches begin 14 Aug 2014 - 09:26 pm

Imran Khan (top centre) heads a protest march from Lahore to Islamabad yesterday. LAHORE: Thousands of protesters set off from the Pakistani city...

Haj training 14 Aug 2014 - 09:25 pm

Afghan Haj pilgrims attend a training workshop with a replica of the Holy Kaaba Sharif erected in a courtyard of Hazrat-e-Ali shrine, or...

Govt urges top court to form poll panel 14 Aug 2014 - 09:24 pm

ISLAMABAD: The government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif yesterday requested the Supreme Court (SC) to nominate three suitable sitting judges of the apex...