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UN rights panel challenges N Korea over slander claim 27 Aug 2013 - 03:39 am

SEOUL: The head of a UN inquiry into human rights in North Korea challenged Pyongyang yesterday to back its allegation that testimony gathered...

Sri Lanka monks protest UN rights chief’s visit 27 Aug 2013 - 03:39 am

COLOMBO: Buddhist monks led protests in the Sri Lankan capital yesterday against the UN’s top rights official, who began a fact-finding mission to...

Biggest Philippine anti-graft protest 27 Aug 2013 - 03:37 am

Protesters gather in Luneta Park in Metro Manila and (right) former Supreme Court chief justice Renato Corona sings ‘Bayan ko’ (My Country), demanding...

US to build $18m coastal system 27 Aug 2013 - 03:37 am

MANILA: An American firm has bagged a contract to build a coast watch centre aimed at boosting the Philippines’ maritime border security. Massachusetts-based...

Court junks senator’s plea to stop Manila Bay project 27 Aug 2013 - 03:37 am

MANILA: The Court of Appeals (CA) has affirmed its earlier ruling dismissing the petition of Senator Cynthia Villar seeking to stop a Manila...

Kong-Rey intensifies into tropical storm; alert up in Luzon 27 Aug 2013 - 03:36 am

MANILA: Five areas in Luzon were placed under public storm warning signal number one as Kong-Rey intensified into a tropical storm, the state...

Cave closed to tourists 27 Aug 2013 - 03:36 am

BAGUIO CITY: Sumaguing Cave, a popular spelunking destination in Sagada town, Mt Province, remains closed to tourists while Dagupan, Pangasinan native Eufrocinia “Irene”...

Hagel holds Indonesia talks 27 Aug 2013 - 03:36 am

JAKARTA: US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel held talks in Indonesia yesterday as part of a tour to bolster ties with Southeast Asia. He...

Utilities threatened as Yosemite blaze rages 27 Aug 2013 - 03:35 am

NPS crews dig hand line along a sprinkler hose as part of a multi-pronged approach to protecting the Giant Sequoias against the Rim...

Snowden won’t be tortured, US tells Russia 27 Aug 2013 - 03:34 am

MOSCOW/WASHINGTON: The United States has made a formal promise to Russia not to execute or torture Edward Snowden if he is sent home...

Fort Hood jury begins weighing fate of convicted shooter 27 Aug 2013 - 03:34 am

FORT HOOD, Texas: A US Army staff sergeant partly paralysed and brain damaged from the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, yesterday...

London streets packed for Notting Hill Carnival 27 Aug 2013 - 03:34 am

LONDON: Hundreds of thousands of revellers hit the streets yesterday for the Notting Hill Carnival, the celebration of Caribbean culture that filled west...

Brazil diplomat says he helped dissident flee Bolivia 27 Aug 2013 - 03:33 am

BRASILIA: A Brazilian diplomat revealed yesterday that he helped a Bolivian opposition senator escape to Brazil after 15 months asylum in Brasilia’s embassy...

Rudd backs high-speed rail to link east coast cities 27 Aug 2013 - 03:31 am

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd (right) speaks alongside Deputy Prime Minister and Transport Minister Anthony Albanese during a press conference, in Sydney yesterday....

South African workers widen wave of strikes 27 Aug 2013 - 03:31 am

JOHANNESBURG: South African construction and airport workers went on strike for higher wages yesterday, extending a series of industrial action threatening to slow...

Snowden got stuck in Russia after Cuba blocked entry 27 Aug 2013 - 03:31 am

MOSCOW: Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden got stuck in the transit zone of a Moscow airport because Havana said it would...

Italian PM meets centre-right official to defuse growing row 27 Aug 2013 - 03:30 am

ROME: Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta met with a top official from Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right party yesterday to try to defuse a row...

Italy rescues 200 asylum-seekers on large dinghies 27 Aug 2013 - 03:27 am

ROME: Two large dinghies carrying 204 asylum-seekers landed in Italy yesterday after being intercepted by coast guards south of the Italian island of...