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Four Afghan cops die in blast 06 Jun 2014 - 06:38 am

GHAZNI: An explosion killed four Afghan police including a district chief yesterday as they attempted to defuse a roadside bomb in the restive...

Court orders police to charge former CIA station chief 06 Jun 2014 - 06:37 am

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad’s High Court yesterday ordered police to press charges against the CIA’s former station chief for murder, conspiracy and waging war against...

Senior Taliban head killed in clash with rival group 06 Jun 2014 - 06:37 am

MIRANSHAH: A senior Taliban commander known for training suicide bombers was killed yesterday in a clash between rival factions in Pakistan’s restive northwest,...

Prisoner swap shows Taliban’s ‘legitimacy’ 06 Jun 2014 - 06:37 am

KANDAHAR: The prisoner swap that freed the last US prisoner of war in Afghanistan shows the Taliban have legitimacy as a movement capable...

Senior Taliban head killed in clash with rival group 06 Jun 2014 - 06:36 am

MIRANSHAH: A senior Taliban commander known for training suicide bombers was killed yesterday in a clash between rival factions in Pakistan’s restive northwest,...

Pakistan woman survives after being shot for marrying for love 06 Jun 2014 - 06:36 am

LAHORE: An 18-year-old woman has survived after being shot and thrown in a canal by her family for marrying the man she loved,...

Dalai Lama seeks autonomy anew 06 Jun 2014 - 06:35 am

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (left), accompanied by Sikyong Lobsang Sangay, the prime minister (second left), speaks during the launch of a...

China cleans web of Tiananmen references 06 Jun 2014 - 06:34 am

BEIJING: China’s state censors yesterday scrubbed the Internet of references to commemorations of the Tiananmen crackdown including a huge vigil in Hong Kong,...

Thailand’s junta sidelines pro-Thaksin police, governors 06 Jun 2014 - 06:33 am

BANGKOK: Thailand’s military is conducting a systematic reshuffle to blunt the power of officials seen as loyal to former premier Thaksin Shinawatra in...

Manila, Hanoi in ‘sports diplomacy’ 06 Jun 2014 - 06:33 am

MANILA,: Filipino and Vietnamese troops will engage in a light-hearted round of sports diplomacy on contested islands in the South China Sea, the...

Green tax to fight Bangla pollution 06 Jun 2014 - 06:32 am

DHAKA: Bangladesh imposed a radical new “green tax” yesterday to force polluting factories to pay extra levies as it looks to clean up...

Nine get death for terrorism in Xinjiang 06 Jun 2014 - 06:32 am

BEIJING: Authorities in China’s restive Xinjiang region sentenced nine people to death yesterday for “violent terrorism” crimes, state media reported, as part of...

Veterans make emotional return to mark D-Day 06 Jun 2014 - 06:32 am

LEFT: US war veteran Jim “Pee Wee” Martin (left), 93, prepares to land with a parachute yesterday over Carentan, where he landed 70...

Top EU job: Merkel, Cameron talk tough 06 Jun 2014 - 06:29 am

BRUSSELS: A bitter row over the top EU job escalated yesterday after German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron had...

Obama wants UK to remain inside the EU 06 Jun 2014 - 06:28 am

BRUSSELS: US President Barack Obama yesterday gave the strongest signal yet that the United States wanted to see the United Kingdom remain inside...

‘Hundreds dead’ in Boko Haram village rampage 06 Jun 2014 - 06:27 am

MAIDUGURI: Hundreds of people are feared dead in a suspected Boko Haram attack on four villages in northeast Nigeria, in the latest upsurge...

Shard tower evacuated after smoke alert 06 Jun 2014 - 06:27 am

LONDON: Some 900 people had to evacuate The Shard, western Europe’s tallest building, yesterday after smoke was reported in the London skyscraper’s basement....

Pope fires entire board of Vatican financial watchdog 06 Jun 2014 - 06:27 am

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis sacked the five-man board of the Vatican’s financial watchdog yesterday — all Italians — in the latest move to...