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Powerful cyclone nears Australia’s Barrier Reef coast 11 Apr 2014 - 11:22 pm

SYDNEY: A cyclone packing winds of up to 270km an hour swept towards Australia’s Great Barrier Reef coast yesterday, forcing tens of thousands...

French lawyer convicted of murder 11 Apr 2014 - 11:22 pm

RENNES: A former Riviera lawyer was convicted yesterday of killing a glamorous casino heiress 36 years ago, after a legal battle that has...

Ukraine PM offers more powers to regions 11 Apr 2014 - 11:22 pm

DONETSK/LUHANSK: Ukraine’s prime minister offered yesterday to boost local powers in the regions in an effort to undercut pro-Russia separatists who have occupied...

Sikh pilgrims in Islamabad 11 Apr 2014 - 10:21 pm

Sikh pilgrims attend a religious ceremony at Gurudwara Panja Sahib in Hassan Abdal, some 55km from Islamabad yesterday. The gurudwara is one of...

Vendors protest 11 Apr 2014 - 10:20 pm

Businessmen and labourers hold placards carrying slogans "People will be dying until when?" during a protest over a bomb blast at a fruits...

Pakistan Taliban plot to assault capital 11 Apr 2014 - 10:18 pm

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani Taliban will coordinate with Islamist activists at major seminaries in or near the capital, Islamabad, to launch attacks if peace...

13 Pakistani militants die in fresh infighting 11 Apr 2014 - 10:18 pm

MIRANSHAH: At least 13 militants were killed in a bombing and a gunfight in Pakistan’s restive tribal areas yesterday, the latest clashes in...

Pakistan’s public debt may increase in 2014 11 Apr 2014 - 10:18 pm

ISLAMABAD: The cap on Pakistan’s public debt - currently at 60 percent of GDP - will be breached again by end of 2014,...

Govt facing battle over anti-terror bill 11 Apr 2014 - 10:17 pm

ISLAMABAD: The government is facing a battle to enact a tough anti-terror law rights activists and opposition parties have attacked as repressive. The...

MH370 freezes ‘panda diplomacy’ 11 Apr 2014 - 10:17 pm

Crew members of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion operate radar and sensor systems while taking part in the search for...

Convicted 11 Apr 2014 - 10:16 pm

Cambodian police escort seven of 13 people convicted yesterday of plotting to overthrow the government, a case seen by rights groups as politically...

Five killed, 29 hurt in Philippine gunbattle with rebels 11 Apr 2014 - 10:11 pm

ZAMBOANGA: Three Muslim rebels and two soldiers were killed yesterday in a day-long gunbattle between troops and Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf extremists blamed...

Signals are from missing jet: Abbott 11 Apr 2014 - 10:05 pm

PERTH: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said yesterday he is “very confident” that signals detected in the search for Flight MH370 are from...

Rights group decries jailing of Myanmar reporter 11 Apr 2014 - 10:04 pm

YANGON: Reporters Without Borders said yesterday it was “outraged” by the imprisonment of a Myanmar journalist for trying to interview an education official,...

Five killed, 29 hurt in Philippine gunbattle with rebels 11 Apr 2014 - 10:04 pm

ZAMBOANGA: Three Muslim rebels and two soldiers were killed yesterday in a day-long gunbattle between troops and Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf extremists blamed...

China’s bird flu toll 100 in three months 11 Apr 2014 - 10:03 pm

BEIJING: Almost 100 people in China died from the H7N9 bird flu strain in the first three months of the year, but the...

Rahul mocks rival Modi over marriage confession 11 Apr 2014 - 10:03 pm

Narendra Modi (left), and Rahul Gandhi. NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi, vice president of the ruling Congress party, yesterday accused opposition election frontrunner Narendra...

NRI voters will have to wait for future polls 11 Apr 2014 - 10:02 pm

Independent political candidate Gaurav Sharma, wearing a ‘spiderman’ costume, greets residents while climbing up a residential building as he campaigns for the Lok...