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Nothing can keep us from being friends: Outgoing Chinese envoy 19 Dec 2013 - 08:23 am

MANILA: Despite the row over maritime territories and occasional exchange of bitter words, China and the Philippines still enjoy a “deep historical friendship,”...

Clash avoided in Midsayap 19 Dec 2013 - 08:23 am

NORTH COTABATO: Local officials and the military were able to prevent Tuesday a near encounter between heavily armed Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF)...

Merkel says EU must be ready for treaty changes 19 Dec 2013 - 08:22 am

Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers her first government statement for the new legislature period in the German Parliament ‘Bundestag’ in Berlin, yesterday. BERLIN: German...

Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs dies 19 Dec 2013 - 08:21 am

LONDON: Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs, whose audacious escape from jail and decades spent on the run made him one of Britain’s most...

Snowfall in Massachusetts 19 Dec 2013 - 08:20 am

Traffic on Route 1 moves slowly in heavy snowfall as the second snowstorm in as many days hit the Northeastern region of the...

UK rushes out curbs to deter EU migrants 19 Dec 2013 - 08:15 am

LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday that he was rushing out regulations to stop EU migrants being able to claim welfare...

Obama to release review panel’s report on surveillance practices 19 Dec 2013 - 08:14 am

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama prepared to release an independent panel’s review of US intelligence practices in a prelude to announcing a broad...

British singer sentenced to 35 years for child abuse 19 Dec 2013 - 08:14 am

LONDON: The lead singer of British rock group Lostprophets was sentenced yesterday to 35 years for child sex offences, and police said they...

Alleged 9/11 conspirator kicked out of Gitmo hearing 19 Dec 2013 - 08:14 am

FORT MEADE: An accused conspirator in the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington was for the second day in a...

Bomb hoax: Harvard student in court 19 Dec 2013 - 08:13 am

BOSTON: A Harvard Unive-rsity student who told investigators he had sent hoax e-mails claiming there were bombs planted around the school this week...

Thousands rally in Rome demanding govt resign 19 Dec 2013 - 08:13 am

ROME: Thousands of protesters furious about high unemployment and a political class they regard as corrupt rallied in central Rome yesterday demanding the...

Mali president’s party wins legislative poll 19 Dec 2013 - 08:13 am

BAMAKO: The party of Mali’s president and its political allies have won a comfortable majority in a parliamentary election intended to seal to...

South Africa’s ‘Dr Death’ guilty of misconduct 19 Dec 2013 - 08:12 am

PRETORIA: South Africa’s “Dr Death” Wouter Basson, who headed the apartheid regime’s germ warfare programme, was found guilty yesterday of unprofessional conduct by...

Syria 19 Dec 2013 - 07:03 am

Syria’s Islamic Front spurns talks with US 19 Dec 2013 - 06:57 am

A building is damaged after an air strike from forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad in Aleppo yesterday. BEIRUT: Islamist rebels...

Mursi to be tried for ‘espionage’ 19 Dec 2013 - 06:55 am

CAIRO: Egypt’s deposed president Mohamed Mursi and ex-aides will stand trial for “espionage” that helped a “terrorist” campaign involving the Palestinian militant Hamas...

Tunisia’s PM-designate holds talks on forming govt 19 Dec 2013 - 06:53 am

Newly appointed Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa arrives to meet Tunisian Constituent Assembly President Mustapha Ben Jaafar in Tunis yesterday. TUNIS: Tunisia’s designated prime...

Nuclear talks to resume today: Iran 19 Dec 2013 - 06:52 am

DUBAI/VIENNA: Iran says it will resume expert talks with six world powers in Geneva today about how to implement a landmark nuclear agreement,...