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German vice-chancellor takes time off to be a dad 06 Jan 2014 - 04:59 am

BERLIN: As the vice-chancellor of Europe’s largest economy, the leader of Germany’s second largest party and the minister in charge of one of...

More than 10,000 rally in Kiev 06 Jan 2014 - 04:59 am

KIEV: More than 10,000 people gathered in central Kiev yesterday for the first major opposition rally of the new year as protests against...

Italy’s Bersani suffers brain haemorrhage 06 Jan 2014 - 04:58 am

ROME: Pier Luigi Bersani (pictured), the former head of Italy’s centre-left who narrowly missed out on the post of premier last year, suffered...

Khodorkovsky in Switzerland 06 Jan 2014 - 04:56 am

BERLIN: Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky is now in Switzerland after leaving Berlin, where he had been staying since his release from a...

Most Spaniards want king to abdicate: Poll 06 Jan 2014 - 04:56 am

MADRID: Almost two thirds of Spaniards want their king to abdicate and hand the crown to his son, according to a poll released...

Cameron promises pension protection 06 Jan 2014 - 04:55 am

LONDON: Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron promised yesterday to protect pensioners’ income if his Conservative party wins the 2015 election, laying out his...

Migrant becomes star in Britain 06 Jan 2014 - 04:55 am

LONDON: The British media had warned of a flood of new Bulgarian and Romanian migrants arriving on January 1, but judging by this...

US Senator wants light punishment for Snowden 06 Jan 2014 - 04:55 am

WASHINGTON: The public debate over the fate of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden intensified yesterday with conservative US Senator Rand Paul...

IRAQ SYRIA NEW YEAR TERROR TRACK & FIELD 06 Jan 2014 - 04:54 am

Group: ViewsMideast Credit: BLEIBEL Source: Daily Star - Beirut, Lebanon Keywords: COLOR IRAQ SYRIA NEW YEAR TERROR TRACK & FIELD 010213 Provider: CartoonArts...

Baghdad prepares to retake Fallujah 06 Jan 2014 - 04:49 am

Burnt out lorries are seen littering the side of the main highway of Fallujah, yesterday. FALLUJAH, Iraq: Iraq is preparing a “major attack”...

30,000 African migrants protest in Israel 06 Jan 2014 - 04:48 am

Thousands of African asylum seekers who entered Israel via Egypt stage a protest in Tel Aviv yesterday. TEL AVIV: More than 30,000 African...

Cairo court jails 12 activists 06 Jan 2014 - 04:47 am

CAIRO: Twelve prominent Egyptian dissidents were given one-year suspended jail terms yesterday in a case brought over an attack on the campaign headquarters...

Iran could help on sidelines of Syrian peace talks: Kerry 06 Jan 2014 - 04:47 am

US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) and the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi...

29 injured in emergency landing 06 Jan 2014 - 04:46 am

A Saudia Boeing 767-300ER after an emergency landing at Madinah airport early yesterday. Twenty-nine people were injured during the incident.

S Sudan rivals in fresh battle, talks delayed 06 Jan 2014 - 04:45 am

JUBA: Government forces and rebels fought fresh battles across South Sudan yesterday, vowing to step up their offensives as regional peace brokers struggled...

Militants kill 50 rebels in new front, Syrian monitor says 06 Jan 2014 - 04:44 am

BEIRUT: Militants killed at least 50 rival rebels yesterday in a new front in Syria’s brutal war, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

Tunisia constitution debate halted after ‘death threat’ 06 Jan 2014 - 04:44 am

TUNIS: Debate over Tunisia’s new constitution was suspended yesterday after a deputy claimed he had received death threats because a colleague had accused...

US warns citizens against Lebanon travel after attacks 06 Jan 2014 - 04:44 am

BEIRUT: The US embassy in Beirut yesterday warned its citizens against travel to Lebanon after a wave of bomb attacks, and to exercise...