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Blatter in Palestine 28 May 2014 - 01:43 am

Fifa President Sepp Blatter (in glasses) and the head of the Palestinian Federation of Football, Jibril Rajoub, watch a girl performing a kick-up...

Chemical arms team attacked in Syria 28 May 2014 - 01:42 am

Syrian residents and rescue workers search the rubble for survivors following a reported air strike by government forces in the Al Maghayer Al...

Shia mosque bombed; 27 die in Iraq 28 May 2014 - 01:41 am

A view shows the damage at the site of a bomb attack inside a Shia mosque in Baghdad, yesterday. BAGHDAD: A wave of...

Hezbollah commander killed 28 May 2014 - 01:40 am

BEIRUT: A senior Lebanese-Canadian commander in the Shia Muslim militant group Hezbollah has been killed in Syria where he was fighting alongside Syrian...

Death row convict gives birth in jail 28 May 2014 - 01:39 am

KHARTOUM: A Christian Sudanese woman, sentenced to hang for apostasy in a case that has sparked international outcry, has given birth in jail,...

In polarised Egypt, Mursi’s village has unusual calm 28 May 2014 - 01:39 am

AL ADWA: In the Egyptian village where Islamist President Mohamed Mursi was born, police and soldiers guard voting booths during a presidential election...

Gunmen fire grenades at Libya PM’s home 28 May 2014 - 01:39 am

TRIPOLI: Gunmen fired grenades at the Tripoli home of Libya’s new Prime Minister, Ahmed Maiteeq, and his guards killed at least one assailant...

Iran-IAEA talks advancing too slowly: France 28 May 2014 - 01:38 am

PARIS: Iran is cooperating “too slowly” with a UN watchdog investigation into suspected nuclear weapons research, France said yesterday, warning that world powers...

Next round of talks with six powers set for June 16-20 28 May 2014 - 01:38 am

BRUSSELS: The next round of talks between six world powers and Iran on resolving a dispute over Tehran’s nuclear programme will be held...

MERS infections in Saudi Arabia drop to four a day 28 May 2014 - 01:37 am

RIYADH: The rate of infection of a deadly virus in Saudi Arabia has slowed since mid-May and Monday was the first day free...

Iran confirms two cases of MERS 28 May 2014 - 01:37 am

DUBAI: Iranian officials say they have confirmed the country’s first two cases of MERS. “Four suspected cases of new coronavirus infection were observed...

200,000 Somali kids risk starvation 28 May 2014 - 01:37 am

GENEVA: The United Nation’s children’s agency yesterday said that 200,000 children may die of starvation this year in war-ravaged Somalia if it does...

40 prisoners on hunger strike hospitalised 28 May 2014 - 01:36 am

JERUSALEM: Israel hospitalised 40 hunger-striking Palestinian detainees this week as their fast entered a second month, the spokeswoman of Israel’s Prison Authority said...

Turkish activists call for protests on anniversary of ‘Gezi’ unrest 28 May 2014 - 01:36 am

ISTANBUL: Activists behind last summer’s anti-government demonstrations in Turkey called yesterday for a mass protest this weekend to mark the first anniversary of...

Poroshenko in action; 50 rebels killed 28 May 2014 - 01:31 am

Pro-Russian militants guard their base in an abandoned hospital in Semyonovka village, outside Slaviansk, Ukraine, yesterday. DONETSK: Ukrainian aircraft and paratroopers killed more...

Rainy days 28 May 2014 - 01:30 am

Tourists walk wearing rain ponchos on Westminster Bridge near the Houses of Parliament in London, yesterday.

Scots get new weapon in battle for independence: Europe 28 May 2014 - 01:28 am

EDINBURGH: A surge in Euroscepticism in England has handed secessionists in Scotland a new weapon in their battle to break away from the...

Prince Charles stirs controversy with warning over climate 28 May 2014 - 01:28 am

LONDON: Prince Charles warned business leaders yesterday to take action against climate change or watch the world continue on a path to destruction...