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MANILA:  President Benigno Aquino III faces another impeachment complaint, this time for the supposed unconstitutionality of the Philippines’ recently forged defence agreement with...

YANGON:  Myanmar yesterday invited Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to resume work in Rakhine state, which is gripped by a severe health crisis nearly...

JERUSALEM: Fifteen Palestinians were killed Thursday when an Israeli shell slammed into a UN-run school where hundreds of civilians had taken refuge, sending...

PARIS: An Air Algerie jet that went missing over Mali Thursday has probably crashed but there has been no trace of the plane...

DOHA: Qatar Exchange index dropped 236.74 points (-1.79) Thursday to go below the threshold of 13,000 points and finished the day's trading at...

BEIRUT: Around 700 tonnes of Syria's chemical agents have been delivered to specialised destruction facilities in Britain, Finland and the US, the watchdog...

ABU DHABI: The UAE's second largest telecommunications operator, du, reported Thursday a 15.5 percent increase in net profits in the second quarter of...

LONDON: Luxury carmaker Bentley, part of Germany's Volkswagen, expects to increase sales volumes this year by less than previously forecast, Chief Executive Wolfgang...

PARIS: Finnish telecom equipment group Nokia jumped back into profit in the second quarter, it reported on Thursday, boosted by restructuring after it...

DUBAI: Passenger traffic through Dubai's main airport dropped 8.5 percent from a year earlier in June to 5.07 million people, as construction temporarily...

ALGIERS: Air Algerie said it lost contact with one of its passenger aircraft nearly an hour after takeoff from Burkina Faso on Thursday...

LONDON: Standard Chartered bank stood behind its top management on Thursday after a report pointed to a possible boardroom shake-up at the bank...

HERAT: Two foreign female aid workers were shot dead by unknown gunmen while travelling in a taxi in the western Afghan city of...

KUNDUZ: A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-packed motorcycle in northern Afghanistan Thursday, killing six civilians and wounding more than 20 in a crowded...

GAZA CITY: Seven Palestinians were killed on Thursday in a series of Israeli air strikes and tank fire in a flashpoint area near...

BENGHAZI: At least nine people were killed and 19 wounded, mostly civilians, in Benghazi after heavy clashes between Islamist fighters and regular forces...

TOKYO: More than 2.2 billion people are "poor or near-poor", with financial crises, natural disasters, soaring food prices and violent conflicts threatening to...

BAGHDAD: A shooting and bombing attack on a bus near Baghdad killed 51 prisoners and nine policemen on Thursday, Ministry of Justice and...