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Japan issues highest alert over super typhoon 08 Jul 2014 - 05:45 am

TOKYO: Japan’s weather agency issued its highest alert as super typhoon Neoguri barreled towards the southern Okinawa island chain yesterday, with 55,000 people...

Bishops okay marijuana for terminally ill 08 Jul 2014 - 04:49 am

MANILA: Senior church leaders in the conservative Philippines said yesterday they supported the use of marijuana to ease the pain of the terminally...

Hanoi chopper crash kills 16, injures five 08 Jul 2014 - 04:49 am

HANOI: Sixteen people were killed and five injured when a Vietnamese military helicopter crashed in the capital Hanoi early yesterday during a training...

Court frees Kuwaiti opposition leader 08 Jul 2014 - 04:48 am

Supporters of Kuwaiti opposition leader and former MP Mussallam Al Barrak take part in a demonstration just before his release, in Kuwait City...

Hamas vows revenge, fires dozens of rockets 08 Jul 2014 - 04:47 am

Mourners carry the body of a Hamas activist during his funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, yesterday. Israeli air strikes on...

Three Israelis confess to killing Palestinian teen 08 Jul 2014 - 02:55 am

Tel Aviv: Three Israelis accused of kidnapping and burning to death a Palestinian teenager have reportedly confessed and re-enacted the murder for the...

Bahrain ejects US diplomat after he met with Shias 08 Jul 2014 - 02:54 am

MANAMA: Bahrain yesterday declared a senior US official persona non grata and asked him to leave the kingdom immediately, state news agency BNA...

Tunisia to host security meeting for Libya’s neighbours 08 Jul 2014 - 02:53 am

TUNIS: Tunisia said yesterday it will host a meeting of foreign ministers from the six countries neighbouring Libya, to discuss ways of helping...

Iraq parliament delayed for 5 weeks, general killed 08 Jul 2014 - 02:53 am

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s new parliament postponed its next session for five weeks yesterday, extending the country’s political paralysis in the face of a Sunni...

Saudi jails four for planning to fight in Iraq 08 Jul 2014 - 02:52 am

DUBAI: A Saudi court yesterday sentenced four people to jail terms for trying to go to Iraq to join fighting there and for...

Identity verification 08 Jul 2014 - 02:00 am

Internally displaced Pakistani civilians fleeing a military operation against Taliban militants in the North Waziristan tribal agency verify their identities at a government...

Suhour in Pakistan 08 Jul 2014 - 01:58 am

Men eat Suhour, the pre-dawn meal during the holy month of Ramadan, in Lahore yesterday. Men eat Suhour, the pre-dawn meal during the...

PML-N picks lawmakers for federal cabinet expansion 08 Jul 2014 - 01:56 am

LAHORE: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has picked out some six to eight lawmakers for possible induction into an expanded cabinet to...

Kabul to cut power transit fee 08 Jul 2014 - 01:55 am

ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan has hinted that it may reduce the transit fee it wants to levy on electricity imported from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan through...

Initial results show Ghani in the lead 08 Jul 2014 - 01:54 am

KABUL: Former World Bank economist Ashraf Ghani won Afghanistan’s presidential election, according to preliminary results yesterday, but his poll rival Abdullah Abdullah rejected...

Watchdog seeks support for displaced journalists 08 Jul 2014 - 01:54 am

PESHAWAR: Freedom Network (FN), a national media and development sector watchdog, yesterday appealed to the federal and provincial governments and military authorities to...

Illegal shops demolished in Peshawar 08 Jul 2014 - 01:54 am

PESHAWAR: In a major anti-encroachment drive, the district administration and the Irrigation Department, with the support of the police, demolished over 1,000 shops,...

Tributes pour in for Shevardnadze 08 Jul 2014 - 01:39 am

Former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze (left) with former US President George W Bush in the Oval Office in Washington on October 5, 2001....