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PRAGUE: A Czech prosecutor has asked lawmakers to strip outgoing prime minister Petr Necas of his immunity from prosecution over a bribery and...

One of the vehicles that was destroyed by a bomb in a regime-held area in Homs yesterday. DAMASCUS: Syria’s ruling Baath party replaced...

AMMAN: The lawyer of cleric Abu Qatada, who pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges in Jordan following his deportation from Britain, said he...

TUNIS: Tunisia’s public prosecutor yesterday ordered police to investigate an attack on 19 actors by Salafist Muslims, while they decided whether to charge...

BAGHDAD: Two days of violence in Iraq killed 31 people, police and doctors said yesterday, the latest in a wave of unrest in...

ADEN: Gunmen shot dead a high-ranking Yemeni army officer Monday in the country’s southeastern Hadramawt province as he was heading to work, a...

A Turkish police officer fires tear gas to disperse protesters near Taksim Square in Istanbul yesterday. ISTANBUL: Turkish riot police yesterday fired rubber...

  CAIRO: The Deadlock over interim prime minister entered a third day yesterday after the Islamist Nour Party rejected candidates for interim prime minister,...

KHARTOUM: A suspect wanted for war crimes in Sudan’s Darfur has been left wounded after an attack which reportedly killed two of his...

JERUSALEM: Several thousand ultra-Orthodox protesters effectively blocked Jewish women activists campaigning for equal worship rights at the Western Wall from holding a monthly...

  TEHRAN: Moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani will assume Iran’s highest elected office on August 3, ending Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s controversial eight-year presidency, a deputy speaker...

Buddhist monks from Thailand offer prayers while armed security personnel stand guard in the background at the Mahabodhi temple complex in Bodh Gaya...

Police and rescue workers search for survivors trapped under the debris of the collapsed building in Hyderabad yesterday.  Hyderabad: Thirteen people were killed...

New Delhi: The CBI yesterday filed in the Supreme Court a status report on its ongoing investigation into the alleged irregularities committed in...

Hyderabad: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh has submitted his report on Telangana issue to party president Sonia Gandhi. He told reporters in the...

New Delhi: A team of Indian officials is in Kabul to hold talks on enhanced military cooperation between India and Afghanistan, which was...

PARIS:  French oil giant Total and its chief executive were acquitted on Monday in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal under Saddam Hussein's rule in...

DOHA: Gas-rich Qatar, a key backer of the Muslim Brotherhood to which Egypt's Mohamed Morsi belongs, condemned the killing of 42 loyalists of...