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Lebanon car bombing kills 4 02 Feb 2014 - 04:56 am

Lebanese emergency personnel are seen at the site of a car bomb explosion targeting a petrol station in eastern Lebanese town of Hermel,...

Yemen’s main oil pipeline bombed 02 Feb 2014 - 04:55 am

SANA’A: Armed tribesmen bombed Yemen’s main oil pipeline yesterday, halting crude flow to the country’s main export terminal less than a month after...

At least 733 Iraqis killed in Jan 02 Feb 2014 - 04:54 am

Iraqi troopers take part in an intensive security deployment on the outskirts of the city of Ramadi, 100km west of Baghdad, yesterday. BAGHDAD:...

Syria toll tops 136,000; future talks uncertain 02 Feb 2014 - 04:45 am

DAMASCUS: The death toll in Syria’s civil war has topped 136,000 after January saw one of the conflict’s bloodiest months, an NGO said...

Obama to visit Saudi amid tensions over Iran, Syria 02 Feb 2014 - 04:45 am

Washington/riyadh: President Barack Obama plans to travel to Saudi Arabia in March on a mission to smooth tensions with Washington’s main Arab ally...

Ship sinks off Yemen killing 12 Indian crew 02 Feb 2014 - 04:44 am

ADEN: A cargo ship sank off the coast of Yemen killing all 12 Indian crew, the Interior Ministry said yesterday. The ship, which...

Iran gets first instalment of frozen assets 02 Feb 2014 - 04:40 am

TEHRAN: Iran has received the first instalment of $4.2bn in frozen assets as part of a nuclear deal with world powers, Deputy Foreign...

Top clergy back Rowhani’s nuclear approach 02 Feb 2014 - 04:37 am

DUBAI: President Hassan Rowhani has secured the backing of senior conservative clerics against hardliners opposed to a nuclear deal reached with major powers,...

Iraq forces hit militants; attacks kill 8 02 Feb 2014 - 04:37 am

RAMADI, Iraq: Security forces and allied tribal fighters mounted major offensives yesterday against militants in the conflict-hit cities of Ramadi and Fallujah as...

GENEVA PEACE TALKS WAR ON TERROR PARROT SYRIA AL QAEDA 02 Feb 2014 - 02:52 am

Group: ViewsMideast Credit: BLEIBEL Source: Daily Star - Beirut, Lebanon Keywords: COLOR GENEVA PEACE TALKS WAR ON TERROR PARROT SYRIA AL QAEDA 012914...

West, Russia clash over Ukraine 02 Feb 2014 - 02:46 am

Volunteers carry hot food to distribute it to anti-government protesters near a barricade at the site of clashes with riot police in Kiev...

Thousands march in Madrid against abortion limits 02 Feb 2014 - 02:46 am

Thousands of people protest a government plan to limit abortions, in Madrid yesterday. MADRID: Thousands of pro-choice campaigners converged on the Spanish capital...

Labour leader plans to reduce trade union ties 02 Feb 2014 - 02:45 am

LONDON: The leader of Britain’s opposition Labour party, Ed Miliband, revealed plans yesterday to further reduce the influence of trade unions on the...

1,000 evacuated from snow-hit cars, buses in northern Serbia 02 Feb 2014 - 02:44 am

BELGRADE: Rescuers, army and police have evacuated about 1,000 people from cars and buses stranded in deep snow in northern Serbia, but several...

Head of Italy’s state pension agency resigns after scandal 02 Feb 2014 - 02:44 am

ROME: The head of Italy’s state pension agency resigned yesterday after a scandal involving conflict of interest and pension contribution irregularities that has...

Rivals clash on Thailand election eve 02 Feb 2014 - 02:43 am

(LEFT) A government supporter is helped by pro-government protesters after being shot; (RIGHT) an anti-government protester with a rifle hidden in a sack...

11 killed after Indonesian volcano erupts 02 Feb 2014 - 02:41 am

KARO: Eleven people, including four schoolchildren, were killed yesterday after they were engulfed by scorching ash clouds spat out by Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung...

China woos Taiwan with offshore ‘common homeland’ 02 Feb 2014 - 02:40 am

PINGTAN: A few kilometres off the Chinese coast, Beijing has appointed a Taiwanese citizen as deputy chief of an experimental “common homeland” that...