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India's HPCL to buy up to 40,000 bpd of Basra from Total 24 May 2013 - 09:40 am

NEW DELHI: Hindustan Petroleum Corp will buy up to 40,000 barrels per day (bpd) of Basra light oil from France's Total at a...

Obama orders review of guidelines for probing journalists 24 May 2013 - 09:32 am

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama said on Thursday he directed Attorney General Eric Holder to conduct a review of Department of Justice guidelines for...

HH the Emir congratulates Eritrean President on National Day 24 May 2013 - 08:38 am

DOHA: HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has sent a cable of congratulations to HE Isaias Afwerki, President of Eritrea...

Google faces new federal antitrust probe 24 May 2013 - 08:26 am

WASHINGTON: U.S. regulators are in the early stages of an antitrust probe into whether Google Inc , the top player in web display...

Li invites Sharif to visit China; praises ties 24 May 2013 - 03:02 am

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (right) with Pakistan’s incoming prime minister Nawaz Sharif prior to their meeting in Islamabad, yesterday. ISLAMABAD: Chinese Premier Li...

Historic sculptures 24 May 2013 - 03:01 am

A police officer displays historic sculptures, recovered from alleged smugglers in Peshawar, yesterday. Police seized a cache of sculptures dating to thousands of...

High costs drop drone strikes in Pakistan 24 May 2013 - 03:01 am

ISLAMABAD: Ahead of President Barack Obama’s long-awaited address on drones at Washington’s National Defence University, the American media said that drone strikes in...

Roadside bomb kills 13 in Quetta 24 May 2013 - 03:00 am

ISLAMABAD: A roadside bomb killed 13 people, including 11 security personnel, yesterday in southwestern Pakistan where separatist rebels have for decades been battling...

Women from northwest fail to win Pakistan poll 24 May 2013 - 03:00 am

PESHAWAR: A woman contender from Pakistan’s northwestern province of Fata and a couple of others from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa made headlines in national and...

Turkish trader freed by rebels 24 May 2013 - 03:00 am

KABUL: A Turkish restaurant owner kidnapped 11 days ago in Kabul was freed in an overnight raid by elite commandos from Afghanistan’s intelligence...

China offers 500 troops to UN Mali force 24 May 2013 - 02:58 am

Chinese troops march at the Bayi Building in Beijing. UNITED NATIONS: China has offered to send more than 500 soldiers to the UN...

North Korea wants peace 24 May 2013 - 02:58 am

BEIJING: A special envoy from North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un told a top Chinese official yesterday that Pyongyang wants peace and is willing...

Alleged embassy ‘plotter’ arrested 24 May 2013 - 02:58 am

JAKARTA: Indonesian police have arrested the alleged mastermind of a failed plot to bomb the Myanmar embassy, an official said yesterday. Sigit Indrajit...

China eyes Swiss free trade deal 24 May 2013 - 02:58 am

ZURICH: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang sees a looming free-trade deal with Switzerland as a touchstone for Beijing’s growing ties with foreign nations, he...

Blind dissident warned ahead of Taiwan visit 24 May 2013 - 02:57 am

BEIJING: China warned blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng yesterday to mind his language ahead of his trip next month to political rival Taiwan,...

Death for four over murders 24 May 2013 - 02:57 am

KUALA LUMPUR: A court yesterday sentenced a lawyer and three farm workers to death over the murder of a glamorous cosmetics tycoon and...

Anti-Taiwan protest 24 May 2013 - 02:56 am

Filipino protesters flash peace signs in a rally in front of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Makati City. They called on...

Manila to send Navy ship to Ayungin 24 May 2013 - 02:55 am

BRP Sierra Madre, the 100-metre amphibious vessel built for the US in 1944 and acquired by the Philippine Navy in 1976, grounded at...