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Grand funeral awaits Mandela 08 Dec 2013 - 07:08 am

A boy walks past a poster of Nelson Mandela on Vilakazi Street in Soweto where he once used to stay, yesterday. RIGHT Girls...

Pro-Europe Ukrainians raise protest pitch 08 Dec 2013 - 07:07 am

Protesters prepare hot meals in an outddor kitchen on another day of protest at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, yesterday. KIEV: Pro-Europe protesters...

French troops pour into Central African Republic 08 Dec 2013 - 07:04 am

France’s President Francois Hollande (centre) and Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete (left) attend a news conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris at...

Haiti protest 08 Dec 2013 - 07:03 am

Haitians protest against a court ruling in neighbouring Dominican Republic that strips Dominican citizenship from hundreds of thousands of children born over the...

Obama: ‘Ideal’ Iran N-deal not possible 08 Dec 2013 - 06:58 am

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama warned yesterday that an “ideal” agreement to eliminate “every nut and bolt” of Iran’s disputed nuclear program was...

Scrap vote result: Honduras left 08 Dec 2013 - 06:56 am

TEGUCIGALPA: The leftist Libre party in Honduras late on Friday formally asked election officials to overturn the results of the November 24 presidential...

Eight killed in Colombia blast 08 Dec 2013 - 06:55 am

BOGOTA: Eight people were killed in a car bombing in Colombia yesterday which was immediately blamed on leftist FARC rebels currently engaged in...

Computer fault hits flights 08 Dec 2013 - 06:54 am

LONDON: Thousands of travellers were delayed at major airports across England yesterday because of a technical problem at an air traffic control centre....

Three members of ‘Muslim patrol’ jailed in London 08 Dec 2013 - 06:54 am

LONDON: Three members of a self-styled “Muslim patrol” in London who harassed passers-by for wearing short skirts, holding hands and drinking alcohol have...

Ice storm causes blackouts, flight delays in US 08 Dec 2013 - 06:53 am

Dallas: Freezing weather in the US gripped parts of Texas and Arkansas yesterday, with hundreds of thousands of people coping in the cold...

Egypt courts release 21 female protesters 08 Dec 2013 - 06:51 am

Egyptian female members of the Muslim Brotherhood hold roses as they stand in the defendants’ cage during their trial at the Appeals Court...

US teacher killed in Libya remembered as a force for change 08 Dec 2013 - 06:50 am

Ronnie Smith with his wife, Anita, and young son. Benghazi: Ronnie Smith, the American teacher shot dead by gunmen in Libya, was remembered...

Rowhani seen on casual hike in the hills 08 Dec 2013 - 06:49 am

Iranian President Hassan Rowhani (second right) greeting youngsters during a hike in the Tochal mountain. TEHRAN: The personal website of Iranian President Hassan...

US to maintain 35,000 troops in Gulf 08 Dec 2013 - 06:44 am

MANAMA: The US is committed to maintaining a 35,000-strong force in the Gulf region regardless of a nuclear deal with Iran, Pentagon chief...

Israeli troops kill Palestinian teen in West Bank 08 Dec 2013 - 06:44 am

RAMALLAH: Israeli troops shot dead a 15-year-old Palestinian during a clash in Jelazoun refugee camp yesterday, near the West Bank city of Ramallah,...

Missing Syrian nuns appear in video, say they are fine 08 Dec 2013 - 06:43 am

BEIRUT: A group of nuns who went missing in Syria after Islamist fighters captured a Christian village this week have appeared in a...

Islamists seize Free Syrian Army arms depots 08 Dec 2013 - 06:43 am

BEIRUT: The largest Islamist rebel force in Syria seized arms depots belonging to the mainstream Western-backed Free Syrian Army yesterday, a watchdog said,...

Yemen says defence complex attackers were mostly Saudi 08 Dec 2013 - 06:43 am

SANA’A: Militants who launched a brazen daylight assault on the Yemeni defence ministry that killed 56 people were mostly Saudis, investigators said yesterday....