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US calls on Moscow to get rid of banned arms 30 Jul 2014 - 01:36 am

WASHINGTON: Ratcheting up tensions with Moscow, Washington yesterday urged Russia to destroy prohibited weapons after it accused Russian leaders of flouting a 1987...

Uruguay launches tobacco crackdown 30 Jul 2014 - 01:35 am

MONTEVIDEO: During the two decades Daniel Gomez spent in the cigarette business at Philip Morris in Uruguay, he never imagined he would one...

US Ebola doctor ‘weak and quite ill,’ says colleague 30 Jul 2014 - 01:35 am

WASHINGTON: An American doctor who has contracted the dangerous Ebola virus in Liberia is “weak and quite ill,” a colleague of his said...

McDonald is new US Veterans Affairs chief 30 Jul 2014 - 01:34 am

WASHINGTON: The US Senate unanimously confirmed a former army officer and corporate leader as secretary of veterans affairs yesterday, as lawmakers acknowledged he...

Steady decline in newspaper jobs in US 30 Jul 2014 - 01:34 am

WASHINGTON: US daily newspapers slashed some 1,300 jobs in 2013, extending the steady declines over the past decade, a survey showed yesterday. The...

30 killed as Libya fighting escalates 30 Jul 2014 - 01:32 am

Plumes of smoke rise from a fire burning at a fuel depot near the airport road in Tripoli yesterday. BENGHAZI: Libyan forces yesterday...

No kidding 30 Jul 2014 - 01:30 am

A soldier serving in the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) frisks a child before allowing him entry to Eid Al Fitr prayers...

Women shouldn’t laugh loudly in public, says Turkish minister 30 Jul 2014 - 01:20 am

ISTANBUL: One of the most senior members of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government sparked an outcry yesterday after declaring that women...

Erdogan willing to return award given by Jewish association 30 Jul 2014 - 01:19 am

ISTANBUL: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan would be glad to return an award given to him by a Jewish-American association a decade...

Eid celebrations 30 Jul 2014 - 01:19 am

Muslims offer prayers at the historical Eidgah on the occasion of Eid Al Fitr in Bhopal yesterday.

33 killed in two road accidents 30 Jul 2014 - 01:17 am

An injured bus passenger is taken to the Indira Gandhi Medical College and Hospital in Shimla yesterday. PATNA: A speeding truck driver ran...

Nurses trapped in Libya conflict 30 Jul 2014 - 01:16 am

New Delhi: In a near replay of the incidents in Iraq, large numbers of Indian nurses are caught in spiralling violence in Libya,...

UPSC aspirants protest over CSAT 30 Jul 2014 - 01:15 am

UPSC aspirants protest demanding the scrapping of Civil Services Aptitude Test (CSAT) from the entrance examination of UPSC in New Delhi yesterday.

Food for pigeons 30 Jul 2014 - 01:09 am

Pigeons eat grains from stacked sacks at the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) market yard, on the outskirts of the western Indian city...

Endangered mammal rescued 30 Jul 2014 - 01:08 am

A volunteer, of Delhi-based NGO Wildlife SOS, poses with Palm Civet, an endangered mammal which looks like a cross between a mongoose and...

Take up fishermen issue with Sri Lanka: TN CM 30 Jul 2014 - 01:06 am

Chennai: Expressing anguish at the arrest of 50 Tamil Nadu fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy yesterday, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa urged Prime...

Look into Trinamool violence: BJP 30 Jul 2014 - 01:06 am

Kolkata: Claiming that minorities in West Bengal were living in fear in the wake of “violence unleashed by the ruling Trinamool Congress”, the...

Odisha village head killed in terror blast 30 Jul 2014 - 01:05 am

Bhubaneswar: A village headman in Odisha’s Malkangiri district was killed and his wife critically injured yesterday in a bomb blast triggered by Maoists,...