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Girl injured with Malala gets UK student visa 03 Jul 2013 - 09:02 am

LONDON: A Pakistani schoolgirl injured in the Taliban attack on Malala Yousafzai last year has been granted a British student visa after receiving...

20 militants die in Afghan raids 03 Jul 2013 - 09:02 am

Kabul: Twenty Taliban insurgents were killed and nine arrested in operations carried out by Afghan forces and the International Security Assistance Force in...

Pakistan’s commercial hub faces growing extortion menace 03 Jul 2013 - 09:01 am

KARACHI: One afternoon a stranger called at Muhammad Faizanullah’s stationery shop in Karachi, Pakistan’s commercial capital, and wordlessly handed the man behind the...

China official sacked after graft allegations 03 Jul 2013 - 09:00 am

BEIJING: A senior Chinese regional official has been sacked, state media said Wednesday after his mistresses reportedly accused him of bribe-taking and nepotism,...

Kuwait urges citizens to leave Egypt immediately 03 Jul 2013 - 08:59 am

KUWAIT CITY: The Gulf state of Kuwait on Wednesday urged its citizens in Egypt to leave at the earliest and warned against travel...

China, Russia to hold largest drills 03 Jul 2013 - 08:59 am

BEIJING: China will join Russia later this week for its largest-ever naval drills with a foreign partner, underscoring deepening ties between the former...

Japan seeks answers on US bugging claims 03 Jul 2013 - 08:56 am

TOKYO: Japan sought answers from the US yesterday over claims it had bugged its key Asian ally, as the list of embarrassing revelations...

Bangla army rejects rescue ‘hoax’ 03 Jul 2013 - 08:56 am

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s army has rejected as “vile” newspaper reports that described the rescue of a textile worker trapped for 17 days in a...

North Korea under fire at Asia security forum 03 Jul 2013 - 08:56 am

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei: North Korea came under fire at an Asia-Pacific security forum yesterday as foreign ministers called on the defiant communist...

Five dead, dozens injured in Aceh quake 03 Jul 2013 - 08:55 am

LAMPAHAN, Indonesia: A powerful earthquake in Indonesia’s Aceh province flattened buildings and sparked landslides yesterday, killing at least five people and injuring dozens...

Philippines to deploy female labour officials in Middle East 03 Jul 2013 - 08:55 am

MANILA: The Philippines is to deploy female labour officers to the Middle East, an official said Tuesday, amid an enquiry into allegations some...

Sri Lanka bans Time edition 03 Jul 2013 - 08:54 am

Colombo: Sri Lanka has banned the July 1 issue of Time magazine because its cover story on Myanmar’s Buddhist-Muslim clashes could hurt religious...

Obama struggles to wow Africa 03 Jul 2013 - 08:53 am

JOHANNESBURG: It was billed as a new chapter in relations with a continent on the move, but US President Barack Obama’s whirlwind tour...

Snowden’s options narrow as nations reject asylum 03 Jul 2013 - 08:52 am

MOSCOW: Several countries rushed to reject asylum requests from fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden yesterday after he sought safe haven in 21...

Kashmir unrest 03 Jul 2013 - 08:51 am

Women mourn during the funeral of Kashmiri rebel Shahnawaz Ahmed alias Tahir Khan of Hizbul Mujahideen at Tral, some 40km south of Srinagar,...

National Cyber Security Policy 2013 unveiled 03 Jul 2013 - 08:50 am

New Delhi: The government yesterday unveiled the National Cyber Security Policy 2013 that aims at building a secure and resilient cyberspace for citizens,...

Cracks develop in Congress-IUML ties in Kerala 03 Jul 2013 - 08:50 am

Thiruvananthapuram: After hard bargaining over ministerial posts created strains between them, relations between the Congress and the IUML — the two largest parties...

Sujatha Singh to be foreign secretary 03 Jul 2013 - 08:50 am

New Delhi: Sujatha Singh, currently ambassador to Germany, was yesterday appointed India’s next foreign secretary. An Indian Foreign Service officer of the 1976...