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Oil tanker crash 13 Jul 2014 - 06:40 am

A Ranger soldier (right) walks past an oil tanker after it skidded and crashed into a side grill of a bridge in Karachi...

Taliban attack kills 3 Pakistani soldiers 13 Jul 2014 - 06:39 am

KHAR: Militants killed at least three Pakistani soldiers in an attack early yesterday on a border post in the restive northwestern tribal belt,...

No fresh data on HIV patients in Islamabad 13 Jul 2014 - 06:37 am

ISLAMABAD: An official of the Ministry of National Health Services yesterday informed a National Assembly (the lower house) subcommittee that the country had...

Property, water taxes raised in Islamabad 13 Jul 2014 - 06:35 am

ISLAMABAD: The prime minister Nawaz Sharif has approved a summary to increase property and water taxes in the urban areas of Islamabad. However,...

Taliban attack kills 3 Pakistani soldiers 13 Jul 2014 - 06:35 am

KHAR: Militants killed at least three Pakistani soldiers in an attack early yesterday on a border post in the restive northwestern tribal belt,...

UN warns Iraq of chaos over standoff 13 Jul 2014 - 06:33 am

Iraqi security forces yesterday at the site of a suicide car bombing which killed 28 people and wounded 25 in Iraq’s disputed northern...

‘Jordan reluctant to host US-led Syria rebel training’ 13 Jul 2014 - 06:32 am

King Abdullah of Jordan & US President Barack Obama WASHINGTON: Jordan, where the US Central Intelligence Agency has been covertly training Syrian rebels...

British actress in South Sudan 13 Jul 2014 - 06:31 am

A handout photograph made available by the Charity Oxfam yesterday showing British actress Keira Knightley meeting Martha NyaKuma Ley, 30, in the Bor...

Mom of rescued Syria infant seeks help 13 Jul 2014 - 06:28 am

Khaled, a member of Syria Civil Defence, kisses Syrian baby Mahmud Idilbi yesterday. BEIRUT: The mother of a two-month-old Syrian baby rescued from...

Shia group gives back army camp to Yemen 13 Jul 2014 - 06:28 am

SANAA: Shia Muslim tribesmen handed back an army camp to the Yemeni government yesterday, an activist in the group said, to try to...

Gunmen kill 25 women in Baghdad buildings 13 Jul 2014 - 06:28 am

BAGHDAD: Gunmen killed 25 women and wounded at least eight people yesterday when they stormed two buildings in a residential Baghdad compound reputedly...

Refugees flee Ukraine rebel bastions 13 Jul 2014 - 06:27 am

Ukrainian troops near the eastern town of Seversk yesterday. Ukrainian war planes bombarded separatists along a broad front, inflicting huge losses after President...

Italy cruise ship wreck set to rise from waves 13 Jul 2014 - 06:26 am

The wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship seen off Giglio Island during the preparation of its refloating. ROME: The refloating of Italy’s ill-fated Costa...

Sarkozy hit by new phone tap leaks 13 Jul 2014 - 06:24 am

PARIS: A corruption scandal surrounding former French president Nicolas Sarkozy deepened further yesterday with fresh leaks of telephone conversations purporting to show he...

Merkel laments breakdown of trust in spy row 13 Jul 2014 - 06:24 am

BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel lamented yesterday the breakdown in trust between Germany and the United States amid a spying row that saw the...

Northern Ireland Orange parade 13 Jul 2014 - 06:24 am

Police prepare a barricade as the Ligoneil Lodge arrive back to the stopping point on the Woodvale Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, yesterday, following...

US activists protest Gaza bombing 13 Jul 2014 - 06:23 am

US activists gather to protest the Israeli bombing of Gaza during a rally in front of the Israeli Embassy late on Friday in...

Anglican archbishops clash over assisted dying ahead of UK law debate 13 Jul 2014 - 06:22 am

LONDON: The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has stressed his opposition to assisted dying as one of his predecessors announced he has changed...