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NSA DRONE EUROPEAN UNION MEETING SPYING MICROPHONE PRIVACY ITELLIGENCE 04 Jul 2013 - 02:22 am

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Anti-Mursi protesters erupt in joy 04 Jul 2013 - 02:15 am

Anti-Mursi protesters react in Tahrir Square yesterday. CAIRO: Jubilant crowds across Cairo cheered, chanted pro-army slogans and set off fireworks after the military...

Army chief Sisi emerges as new strongman 04 Jul 2013 - 02:15 am

CAIRO: When President Mohammed Mursi swept aside the ageing commanders of Egypt’s military a year ago and named a soft-spoken, deeply religious younger...

Iran president-elect urges end to meddling in private lives 04 Jul 2013 - 02:15 am

DUBAI: Iranian President-elect Hassan Rowhani called yesterday for the government and powerful clergy to end interference in the private lives of the Iranian...

Turkey summons US diplomat over spying claims 04 Jul 2013 - 02:15 am

ANKARA: Turkey yesterday summoned the US embassy’s number two diplomat over allegations that Washington spied on a number of embassies and missions including...

A defeat for political Islam: Assad 04 Jul 2013 - 02:14 am

BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, fighting to crush a two-year-old uprising, said yesterday that the upheaval in Egypt was a defeat for...

Mandela children’s remains exhumed 04 Jul 2013 - 02:13 am

A man forces open the gate of the property of Mandla Mandela yesterday. MTHATHA, South Africa: The remains of three of Nelson Mandela’s...

Force-feeding to go on at Guantanamo 04 Jul 2013 - 02:13 am

MIAMI: A US federal court has no jurisdiction and no reason to intervene in the force-feeding of prisoners at the Guantanamo naval base,...

Hidden microphone found at Ecuador mission in Britain 04 Jul 2013 - 02:01 am

LONDON: Ecuador has found a hidden microphone inside its London embassy, where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is living, and said will disclose who...

Britain wants Abu Qatada ‘on a plane to Jordan soon’ 04 Jul 2013 - 02:00 am

LONDON: Britain said yesterday it wanted to see radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada on a plane “at the earliest opportunity”, after Jordan said...

Belgian King to announce abdication 04 Jul 2013 - 02:00 am

BRUSSELS: Belgium’s King Albert II is to announce he will abdicate on July 21, the country’s National Day, in a speech to the...

French law to push for male parental leave 04 Jul 2013 - 02:00 am

PARIS: Frenchmen will be encouraged to take more parental leave and state firms will have to bring more women onto their boards under...

House razed by quake 04 Jul 2013 - 01:58 am

Family members inspect their collapsed house in Blang Mancung in Indonesia’s Aceh province yesterday following an earthquake.

Dhaka plans stronger labour reforms 04 Jul 2013 - 01:58 am

DHAKA: Bangladesh plans more sweeping labour law reforms after the US withdrew trade privileges over a deadly garment factory collapse, officials said yesterday....

Manila to buy Maestrale class frigates from Italy 04 Jul 2013 - 01:58 am

MANILA: The Philippines is set to buy two Maestrale-class frigates from Italy, a defence official said yesterday, as the Asian nation races to...

Myanmar general blacklisted over arms deals 04 Jul 2013 - 01:58 am

WASHINGTON: The United States placed a Myanmar general on its sanctions blacklist on Tuesday for arms deals with North Korea that violated the...

Filipina drug mule executed 04 Jul 2013 - 01:57 am

MANILA: China put to death a Filipina drug-trafficker yesterday, the Philippines’ Foreign Ministry said, after Beijing ignored Manila’s request to spare her life....

Japan protests over China drilling rig 04 Jul 2013 - 01:57 am

TOKYO: Japan said yesterday it had voiced “serious concern” to China over the construction of a drilling rig near a disputed and potentially...