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GE wins $2.2bn Algeria turbine contract 22 Sep 2013 - 07:19 pm

ALGIERS: General Electric Co. has won a $2.2-billion contract to provide turbines for six power plants in Algeria, state energy giant Sonelgaz announced...

Suicide bombers kill more than 70 at Pakistan church 22 Sep 2013 - 07:17 pm

Pakistani men carries an injured Christian woman into a hospital after two suicide bomb attacks on a Church in Peshawar. PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A...

Death toll in northeast Nigeria attack up to at least 142 22 Sep 2013 - 07:03 pm

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria: The death toll from an attack in northeastern Nigeria that saw insurgents dressed as soldiers set up checkpoints and gun down...

Saudi women call new day of defiance against driving ban 22 Sep 2013 - 06:53 pm

RIYADH: Saudi women activists have called for a new day of defiance next month of the longstanding ban on women driving in the...

Aquino to charge Philippine rebel leader over city attack 22 Sep 2013 - 06:52 pm

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines: President Benigno Aquino vowed Sunday to bring criminal charges against Muslim rebel leader Nur Misuari for a deadly attack on a...

March for peace 22 Sep 2013 - 04:36 am

People, including farmers and members of ethnic groups, hold signs during a march calling for an end to the nation’s civil conflicts, to...

Lanka Tamils vote after years of war 22 Sep 2013 - 04:35 am

JAFFNA: Minority Tamils voted in large numbers yesterday in a landmark election they hope will give them a chance at self-rule in Sri...

Bangladesh workers in huge protest 22 Sep 2013 - 04:35 am

DHAKA: About 50,000 garment industry workers held their largest protest so far in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka to demand an increase of...

N Korea puts off reunions 22 Sep 2013 - 04:35 am

SEOUL: North Korea yesterday ordered the indefinite postponement of a scheduled series of reunions for families divided since the 1950-53 Korean War, dealing...

Super typhoon whips Philippines, Taiwan 22 Sep 2013 - 04:34 am

Ships are docked to take cover from Typhoon Usagi at Manila Bay yesterday. MANILA: Super Typhoon Usagi, the most powerful storm of the...

Humanitarian crisis as troops go after rebel remnants 22 Sep 2013 - 04:34 am

ZAMBOANGA: The Philippines urged its citizens yesterday to send more aid for 100,000 people who had fled heavy fighting between troops and rebels...

Washington not seeking permanent base 22 Sep 2013 - 04:33 am

WASHINGTON: The United States has said that it is not seeking a permanent base in the Philippines as the allies expand military cooperation...

Forfeiture of assets eyed in fund scam 22 Sep 2013 - 04:33 am

MANILA: The Department of Justice (DOJ) is likely to initiate forfeiture proceedings in court to recover allegedly ill-gotten assets – including real estate...

Three killed in bus blast 22 Sep 2013 - 04:33 am

MANILA: Three people died while another one was wounded in an explosion inside a passenger bus in Zamboanga City late on Friday afternoon,...

Illegal weapons seized 22 Sep 2013 - 04:32 am

Afghanistan National Army soldiers display to media persons weapons seized during an anti-Taliban operation, at an army station on the outskirts of Jalalabad,...

Pakistan releases senior Taliban chief 22 Sep 2013 - 04:31 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan released its most senior Afghan Taliban detainee Abdul Ghani Baradar yesterday, a senior official said, a move welcomed by Kabul which...

Three US troops killed in Afghan ‘insider attack’ 22 Sep 2013 - 04:31 am

KHOST: An Afghan soldier shot dead three US troops yesterday, officials said, in the latest “insider attack” to shake efforts by the two...

US still hopes to win release of captured soldier 22 Sep 2013 - 04:31 am

WASHINGTON: The United States has not given up trying to win the release of an American soldier captured by the Taliban more than...