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TAIPEI: Taiwan and the Philippines swapped teams of investigators yesterday following weeks of acrimony over the fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman. A...

BEIJING: The relationship between Beijing and Washington is at a “critical juncture”, China’s President Xi Jinping told a senior advisor to Barack Obama...

TOKYO: The number of researchers exposed to low-level radiation in an accident at a nuclear laboratory in Japan last week hit 30, officials...

  MANILA: The Navy spotted two Chinese ships intruding in Philippine-owned Ayungin Shoal. Colonel Edgard Arevalo, Navy spokesman on West Philippine Sea issues, over...

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (centre), arrives at the French charity association Emmaus second-hand store in Bougival, west of Paris, yesterday during an official...

LONDON: Police investigating the grisly murder of a soldier in London by two Islamists made another arrest yesterday, as 1,000 far-right protesters demonstrated...

ADDIS ABABA: African leaders said yesterday that they would immediately create a military rapid reaction force to deal with regional coups, rebellions and...

ARLINGTON: US President Barack Obama paid tribute yesterday to fallen men and women of the US armed services during a Memorial Day ceremony...

GENEVA: United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay told governments yesterday that trying to fight terrorism by limiting personal freedoms and mistreating suspects...

LONDON: Two British men accused of threatening to blow up a Pakistan International Airways (PIA) plane and kill its passengers and crew were...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur arriving at Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport yesterday. TOKYO: Japan is close to signing an...

New Delhi/Panaji: Six bookies allegedly involved in the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing scandal were arrested by Goa Police yesterday. “Ketan Chavera, Amit...

Pune: Spelling fresh trouble for Sanjay Dutt, the Yerawada Central Jail here has decided to oppose home-cooked food permitted to the Bollywood actor,...

  LUCKNOW: At least 19 people were killed yesterday when a bus plunged into a canal in Uttar Pradesh. Twenty-three others were rescued and...

Officials of Qatar Science and Technology Park and iHorizons exchange the agreement. Doha: Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP) and iHorizons have tied...

Secretary-General of Q22, Hassan Al Thawadi DOHA: The Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee (Q22) has appointed Amsterdam Arena and IMG as the Stadium Operations...

DOHA: Students of MES Indian School, Birla Public School (BPS) and DPS Modern Indian School scored the highest marks in the CBSE Class...

DOHA: Haemophilia patients and their families and friends recently gathered in Doha to mark World Haemophilia Day under the slogan “Let’s live with...