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Bangla textile workers clash with police over wages 13 Nov 2013 - 06:55 am

DHAKA: Bangladesh police fired rubber bullets and teargas at garment workers who stitch clothes for Western retailers during clashes yesterday as demonstrations against...

Thai PM urges end to rallies 13 Nov 2013 - 06:54 am

BANGKOK: Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra appealed yesterday for anti-government groups to end ongoing street protests after the parliamentary defeat of an amnesty bill...

Myanmar monks protest ahead of OIC visit 13 Nov 2013 - 06:54 am

YANGON: Around 500 Buddhist monks marched through Yangon yesterday in protest at a looming visit by delegates from the world’s top Islamic body...

S Korea MP denies pro-North revolt plot 13 Nov 2013 - 06:54 am

SEOUL: A leftist South Korean lawmaker yesterday denied charges of plotting an armed revolt in support of North Korea, calling himself the victim...

Standing tall 13 Nov 2013 - 06:52 am

New York’s One World Trade Center is seen towering over the lower Manhattan skyline yesterday. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat...

EU leaders promise jobs for youth 13 Nov 2013 - 06:52 am

PARIS: European leaders pledged yesterday to make fighting youth unemployment in the bloc a priority but came up with no new ideas to...

Ukraine-EU deal hangs in balance 13 Nov 2013 - 06:51 am

KIEV: A planned deal between Ukraine and the European Union was hanging in the balance yesterday after President Viktor Yanukovich made a mysterious...

Russia demands Polish apology over violence 13 Nov 2013 - 06:51 am

MOSCOW: Russia demanded an apology from Poland yesterday after far-right rioters threw firecrackers at the Russian embassy in Warsaw, reviving tension between countries...

Detained Arctic activists moved to St Petersburg 13 Nov 2013 - 06:51 am

SAINT PETERSBURG: Russia on Tuesday put 30 crew members of a Greenpeace protest ship in prisons in Saint Petersburg, after moving them from...

Congo blames Uganda for collapse of rebel talks 13 Nov 2013 - 06:50 am

KINSHASA/KAMPALA: The Congolese government delegation has quit Ugandan-hosted talks with M23 rebels, saying Kampala’s support for insurgents was to blame for the failure...

Cyberattack ‘war game’ tests London banks 13 Nov 2013 - 06:49 am

LONDON: A cyberattack by a foreign government on financial markets played out in one of London’s historic halls yesterday in a “war game”...

Canada goes to court to reform, abolish Senate 13 Nov 2013 - 06:48 am

OTTAWA: Canada’s federal government went to the nation’s highest court yesterday seeking legal backing for its proposals to reform or abolish its Senate...

Azeri leader in Ankara 13 Nov 2013 - 06:46 am

From left: Azerbaijan’s First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev, Turkish President Abdullah Gul, First Lady Hayrunisa, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip...

Kuwait House session 13 Nov 2013 - 06:45 am

Kuwaiti Health Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al Abdullah Al Sabah getting ready to speak during a grilling session filed by Hussein Al Qwaiaan MP,...

Iran blames West for snag in nuclear talks 13 Nov 2013 - 06:44 am

DUBAI: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif rejected US Secretary of State John Kerry’s pinning of blame on Iran for the lack of...

Protest in Sudanese town continues 13 Nov 2013 - 06:44 am

KHARTOUM: Thousands of Sudanese demanded the removal of a local police chief yesterday, witnesses said, on the third day of unrest sparked by...

Briton hurt in Iraq oilfield row over Shia insult 13 Nov 2013 - 06:43 am

BASRA: Iraqis angry over alleged religious insults beat up a Briton working at an energy company’s camp in the country’s south and spurred...

Morocco unveils scheme to recognise illegal immigrants 13 Nov 2013 - 06:42 am

SALE, Morocco: Morocco has unveiled details of an “exceptional operation” to give official papers to some of its 25,000-40,000 illegal immigrants from sub-Saharan...