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Path cleared for sending more Gitmo detainees 21 Dec 2013 - 07:10 am

WASHINGTON: The US Senate eased the way for President Barack Obama to speed up the transfer of prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to their...

NSA spied on Israel, EU official and aid groups: Report 21 Dec 2013 - 07:10 am

WASHINGTON: US and British spy agencies eavesdropped on an Israeli prime minister, energy firms, aid agencies and an EU official overseeing anti-trust cases,...

Militia attacks Muslim neighbourhoods in Bangui 21 Dec 2013 - 07:09 am

BANGUI: Christian militia attacked Muslim neighbourhoods in the capital of Central African Republic yesterday, as France appealed to European partners for assistance in...

South Africa’s biggest union cuts political ties with ANC 21 Dec 2013 - 07:08 am

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s biggest union will not support the ruling ANC in elections next year, its general secretary said yesterday, in a blow...

Polio vaccine 21 Dec 2013 - 07:07 am

Imran Khan (left), head of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf ruling militancy-hit Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, administers polio drops on a child in Nowshera on Wednesday. The Pakistani...

Poverty 21 Dec 2013 - 07:07 am

An Afghan girl looks on as she walks home at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul yesterday. Some nine million Afghans,...

US to stop aid if Nato supplies disrupted 21 Dec 2013 - 07:05 am

ISLAMABAD: A proposed new law that has the White House’s approval seeks to fiscally squeeze Pakistan if interruptions to the US/Nato ground supply...

Moderate earthquake hits southern Pakistan 21 Dec 2013 - 07:05 am

KARACHI: A 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit south Pakistan early yesterday, seismologists said. The quake struck at 00.28am local time (1928GMT) at the relatively shallow...

Sharif cabinet finalises five-year plan 21 Dec 2013 - 07:05 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan was being run without any concrete plan, and the situation has worsened so much that banks refuse to offer even $50,000...

Musharraf lawyers complain to UN over ‘show trial’ 21 Dec 2013 - 07:04 am

LONDON: Lawyers for Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf said yesterday a treason charge against him was politically motivated and he would face a...

No promotions unless officials medically fit 21 Dec 2013 - 07:04 am

ISLAMABAD: For the first time thousands of civil bureaucrats from Grade 17-20 would not be able to move into next grade without submission...

Troops pound militant hideouts as toll hits 40 21 Dec 2013 - 07:03 am

MIRANSHAH: Pakistani troops pounded suspected militant hideouts in a lawless tribal district for a third day yesterday, as the death toll rose to...

India begins training Afghan commandos ahead of Nato withdrawal 21 Dec 2013 - 07:03 am

NEW DELHI: India is training a group of Afghan special forces in the deserts of Rajasthan, army officials said yesterday, deepening its involvement...

14 students hurt as van overturns 21 Dec 2013 - 07:03 am

Peshawar: At least 14 children were injured when their school van overturned in Peshawar yesterday morning. Police said the school van, carrying about...

No dropping of charges against diplomat 21 Dec 2013 - 07:02 am

An employee enters the Dominos Pizza outlet after it was ransacked by the activists of Republican Party of India (RPI) in a Mumbai...

First home-built fighter jet passes operational clearance 21 Dec 2013 - 07:01 am

Bangalore: Thirty years after it was conceived, India’s indigenous light combat aircraft Tejas — the lightest military jet in its class — yesterday ...

Govt presses Supreme Court to drop gay sex ban 21 Dec 2013 - 07:00 am

New Delhi: The Indian government yesterday moved the Supreme Court seeking the review of its December 11 verdict holding that the homosexual relationships...

Five cops gangrape teenager 21 Dec 2013 - 07:00 am

NEW DELHI: Five policemen have been arrested for allegedly gangraping a teenage schoolgirl in northern India, police said yesterday. The alleged sexual assault...