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Attacks mar high turnout at Afghan vote 15 Jun 2014 - 12:25 am

Independent Election Commission workers count ballots after the run-off vote, in Mazar-e-Sharif, yesterday. KABUL: Millions of Afghans turned out to vote yesterday in...

Govt to appeal ruling allowing Musharraf to leave 15 Jun 2014 - 12:25 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s government yesterday appealed to the country’s Supreme Court to overturn a decision allowing Pervez Musharraf to leave the country, his lawyer...

Airport attack protest 15 Jun 2014 - 12:24 am

Families of airport attack victims hold placards demanding proper investigation during a protest in Karachi yesterday. Uzbek fighters were involved in the all-night...

Philippines protests Chinese reef ‘reclamation’ for the fourth time 15 Jun 2014 - 12:23 am

Protesters hold placards in front of the Chinese consulate office in Makati City yesterday. MANILA: The Philippines said yesterday it had filed a...

Suu Kyi seeks support for charter change 15 Jun 2014 - 12:22 am

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (left) and Nepalese President Ram Baran Yadav shake hands during a meeting at the Office of...

Hong Kong police arrest 21 in ‘new town project’ protest 15 Jun 2014 - 12:21 am

Police block demonstrators from the Legislative Council in Hong Kong yesterday. HONG KONG: Police used pepper spray to scatter protesters at Hong Kong’s...

Oil rig spat: Beijing not to send army 15 Jun 2014 - 12:20 am

BEIJING: A Chinese official said on Friday that China will never send military forces to the scene of an increasingly ugly spat with...

9 killed in Bangladesh refugee camp clashes 15 Jun 2014 - 12:20 am

DHAKA: Clashes in a refugee camp north of Dhaka killed at least nine people during festival celebrations yesterday. The shanty town in Mirpur...

N-talks: Seoul envoy due in Moscow soon 15 Jun 2014 - 12:19 am

Seoul: South Korea’s top nuclear envoy Hwang Joon-kook will leave for Moscow tomorrow for talks with his Russian counterpart Igor Vladimirovich Morgulov. The...

Dawn fire razes school buildings in Malolos City 15 Jun 2014 - 12:19 am

MALOLOS CITY: Two two-storeyed buildings of a Catholic school here, built in 1937 and had withstood the war, were razed in a matter...

WORLD CUP CORRUPTION BRAZIL 2014 PROTESTS STADIUM 15 Jun 2014 - 12:18 am

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Bomb found near Ukrainian president's office 14 Jun 2014 - 02:08 pm

KIEV: Ukrainian presidential bodyguards have disposed of a powerful explosive device discovered near President Petro Poroshenko's headquarters, a security source said on Saturday....

Syria TV says 30 killed in blast near Iraq border 14 Jun 2014 - 02:04 pm

DAMASCUS: A bomb attack targeting a weapons bazaar in eastern Syria close to the Iraqi border killed 30 "terrorists" on Saturday, state television...

Philippine police seize half-tonne of shark meat 14 Jun 2014 - 02:02 pm

CEBU: Police in the central Philippines have seized half a tonne (1,100 pounds) of shark meat destined for use in fried fish snacks,...

49 killed in east Ukraine plane downing 14 Jun 2014 - 01:13 pm

LUGANSK, Ukraine: Pro-Russian gunmen shot down a Ukranian military transport plane Saturday in the separatist east, killing all 49 people on board in...

Nine killed in riots in Bangladesh capital 14 Jun 2014 - 12:19 pm

DHAKA: Clashes in a refugee camp north of Dhaka killed at least nine people during festival celebrations Saturday. The shanty town in Mirpur...

Iraq forces preparing for counter-offensive 14 Jun 2014 - 11:42 am

BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces readied a counter-offensive against militants north of Baghdad on Saturday, an army colonel said, after the prime minister announced...

Drone strikes kill three suspected militants in Yemen 14 Jun 2014 - 11:39 am

ADEN: A drone strike killed three suspected al Qaeda militants in Yemen late on Friday, a local official and a tribal source told...