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Mukul Rohatgi named attorney general 29 May 2014 - 06:52 am

New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government yesterday appointed senior Supreme Court counsel Mukul Rohatgi, who appeared for the Gujarat government in several 2002...

Delhi court rejects plea against Kejriwal letter 29 May 2014 - 06:51 am

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court yesterday refused to entertain a plea seeking action against former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal for writing an...

Suitcase vehicle 29 May 2014 - 06:47 am

He Liang rides his home-made suitcase vehicle along a street in Changsha in China’s Hunan province, yesterday. He spent 10 years modifying the...

Ukraine region calm after assault 29 May 2014 - 06:40 am

Armed pro-Russian militants guard Denis Pushilin (centre), the self-styled governor of the so-called People’s Republic of Donetsk, during a demonstration by coal miners...

Crash claims five 29 May 2014 - 06:39 am

Uruguay’s forensic and justice personnel work on an Argentine aircraft that crashed in the Rio de la Plata, some 10km south of Carmelo,...

Military action not always right: Obama 29 May 2014 - 06:37 am

WEST POINT, United States: President Barack Obama mounted a defiant defence of his global leadership yesterday, rebuking critics who see him as weak...

Africans storm through Spain border fence 29 May 2014 - 06:37 am

MADRID: About 500 African migrants leapt a towering, triple-layer border fence to cross from Morocco to the tiny Spanish territory of Melilla yesterday,...

Cuban website interviews US vice-president 29 May 2014 - 06:36 am

HAVANA: Fledgling Cuban independent online newspaper 14ymedio yesterday published an interview with US Vice-President Joe Biden, who expressed hope that Havana’s economic reforms...

Many in the race for EU presidency 29 May 2014 - 06:29 am

BRUSSELS: Chancellor Angela Merkel’s diluted support for Jean-Claude Juncker’s bid to be European Commission president has thrown the field open to other candidates,...

Four girls escape Boko Haram custody 29 May 2014 - 06:29 am

MAIDUGURI: Four more girls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants last month have escaped their captors, the education commissioner for Nigeria’s Borno state said...

Low turnout in Egypt election 29 May 2014 - 06:28 am

Officials wait for voters in a polling station near the Saladin Citadel on the third day of voting in Cairo yesterday. CAIRO: Egyptian...

Jerusalem Day clashes 29 May 2014 - 06:27 am

Israeli border guards detain a Palestinian man as ultra-nationalist Israelis take part in the “flag march” through Damascus Gate in east Jerusalem yesterday...

Saudi working with WHO to fight MERS 29 May 2014 - 06:25 am

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is working with international scientific organisations to improve its response to a deadly new virus that has killed 186 people...

Syrian refugees, expats abroad vote 29 May 2014 - 06:24 am

BEIRUT: Refugees waved flags and held pictures of Bashar Al Assad as they crushed into Damascus’s embassy in Lebanon yesterday to join Syrians...

Israel troops raid Palestinian newspaper offices 29 May 2014 - 06:24 am

RAMALLAH: Israeli soldiers raided the offices of a Palestinian newspaper here yesterday, ordering them to stop printing publications by Hamas, managers said. “Officers...

Iran’s Zarif sees progress in EU nuclear talks 29 May 2014 - 06:24 am

ALGIERS: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said yesterday that progress has been made in his talks with EU diplomatic chief Catherine Ashton...

Chaos deepens in Libya with air raid on Benghazi jihadists 29 May 2014 - 06:23 am

TRIPOLI: A rogue ex-Libyan general resumed air strikes on jihadists in the city of Benghazi yesterday, while gunmen attacked an interior ministry team...

‘Better Connections Programme’ launched 29 May 2014 - 05:34 am

Officials at the event. Doha: Within the framework of its digital inclusion programmes, the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology yesterday launched ‘Better...