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Air raids hit rebel-held Syrian areas 04 Apr 2013 - 06:55 am

A Syrian Army tank bearing a Syrian national flag is seen in Sheikh Maksoud, Aleppo, yesterday. BEIRUT: Syria’s air force staged new strikes...

Israel issues warning against fire from Golan, Gaza 04 Apr 2013 - 06:54 am

JERUSALEM: Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon warned yesterday that Israel would respond to any attacks on its territory and not allow its people to...

Tunisia jails jihadist over call to join Syria rebels 04 Apr 2013 - 06:54 am

Tunis: Tunisia has jailed an Islamist militant on suspicion of incitement to terrorism after he called on television for young compatriots to join...

Kidnapped Eritreans face extreme violence: Amnesty 04 Apr 2013 - 06:54 am

KHARTOUM: Eritrean refugees kidnapped in Sudan are raped, beaten, chained and sometimes killed after being forcibly transported to Egypt’s Sinai peninsula and held...

Cairo summons UAE diplomat over detained Egyptians 04 Apr 2013 - 06:53 am

CAIRO: Egypt’s foreign ministry summoned the charge d’affaires of the United Arab Emirates over the case of 11 Egyptians detained in the Gulf...

Fire rages in showpiece Grozny skyscraper 04 Apr 2013 - 06:51 am

Policemen watch flames rising from the burning ‘Grozny City’ luxury apartment tower in Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russia, yesterday. MOSCOW: A fire raged in...

Minister’s lie deals blow to French govt 04 Apr 2013 - 06:50 am

PARIS: The French government yesterday fought to limit the damage from a former minister’s admission that he had lied over the existence of...

Europe readies for solar storm risks 04 Apr 2013 - 06:48 am

The operation centre of the European Space Agency’s Space Weather Coordination Centre in Brussels. BRUSSELS: Europe launched its first space weather coordination centre...

Blow to Serbia’s EU bid as Kosovo talks deadlocked 04 Apr 2013 - 06:47 am

BRUSSELS/BELGRADE: Crunch talks to end the ethnic partition of Serbia’s former Kosovo province broke up without result yesterday , in a potential blow...

WWII bomb defused near Berlin’s main train station 04 Apr 2013 - 06:47 am

BERLIN: German sappers successfully defused a World War II bomb unearthed near Berlin’s main train station in a delicate operation that snarled rail...

Dhahi Khalfan rails against Brotherhood 04 Apr 2013 - 06:45 am

Dubai police chief Dhahi Khalfan in his office during an interview. DUBAI: Sunni Muslim-ruled Gulf Arab states are often wary of subversion from...

Palestinians stage general strike 04 Apr 2013 - 06:43 am

A Palestinian protester peeks at Israeli troops from behind old doors used as cover during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron...

Rights groups urge UAE to open Islamist trial to public 04 Apr 2013 - 06:43 am

DUBAI: Seven international human rights groups yesterday criticised a “secret” trial in the United Arab Emirates of 94 Islamist dissidents, saying refusal to...

Kuwait parliament approves personal debt relief law 04 Apr 2013 - 06:43 am

KUWAIT: Kuwait’s parliament approved a law yesterday to buy some citizens’ personal loans and write off the interest after lawmakers argued that banks...

UAE relaxes travel curbs on Canadians 04 Apr 2013 - 06:42 am

DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has reinstated a visa waiver for Canadian citizens it withdrew amid a dispute over landing rights more than...

Abbas to meet Kerry in Jordan on Sunday 04 Apr 2013 - 06:42 am

RAMALLAH: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to meet on Sunday in Amman with US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is pushing for...

EU patch up 04 Apr 2013 - 06:38 am

Qaradawi’s fatwa on IPO subscription 04 Apr 2013 - 06:34 am

DOHA: Prominent Islamic scholar Dr Yousuf Al Qaradawi has issued an edict (fatwa) urging fellow Islamic clerics and senior members of management of...