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Tunisia’s Islamist leader Ghannouchi pelted with stones 04 Mar 2013 - 01:17 am

THALA, Tunisia: Angry residents of a town in northern Tunisia hurled stones at the car of visiting Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi yesterday, a...

Erdogan rules out amnesty for Kurdish rebels 04 Mar 2013 - 01:17 am

ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ruled out yesterday general amnesty for Kurdish rebels amid renewed peace talks between the country’s secret...

50 rebels killed in Mali fighting 04 Mar 2013 - 01:15 am

A city worker paints over a sign reading “Sharia Square” in Gao, yesterday. Radical Islamists painted many signs proclaiming Shariah law during their...

Austria far-right loses state election 04 Mar 2013 - 01:13 am

VIENNA: Austria’s far-right lost power yesterday in its late leader Joerg Haider’s stronghold of Carinthia after a drubbing in a state election, five...

Moscow cops interrupt play 04 Mar 2013 - 01:12 am

A group of Cossacks waits outside during a performance of the play “Moscow Trials” in the Sakharov centre in Moscow, yesterday. Moscow police...

Six Russian teens trapped in Siberia avalanche 04 Mar 2013 - 01:12 am

MOSCOW: Russian authorities say six teenagers are trapped in an avalanche in the region of Tuva in southern Siberia. The Emergency Situations Ministry...

Boko Haram leader rejects peace talks 04 Mar 2013 - 01:11 am

MAIDUGURI: The leader of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram rejected peace talks with the government in a video yesterday, distancing himself from a...

Army officer, businessman held for Benin coup attempt 04 Mar 2013 - 01:11 am

COTONOU: Benin said yesterday that authorities have thwarted an attempt to oust President Thomas Boni Yayi and install a military regime in the...

House where sinkhole swallowed man is partially razed in Florida 04 Mar 2013 - 01:10 am

Demolition crews and Hillsborough County Fire Department watch as the house, where Jeff Bush was swallowed by a sinkhole, is demolished in Seffner,...

Protest over secrecy about Chavez’s health 04 Mar 2013 - 01:09 am

Hundreds of opposition supporters participate in a march in Caracas, Venezuela, yesterday, demanding the government tell the truth on the health of President...

‘It kills me’ not to be president, says Romney 04 Mar 2013 - 01:09 am

WASHINGTON: Four months after his bitter election defeat, a reflective Mitt Romney said it “kills” him not to be president and admitted mistakes...

Queen Elizabeth in hospital with stomach bug 04 Mar 2013 - 01:09 am

LONDON: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth went into hospital here yesterday with symptoms of gastroenteritis, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said. The 86-year-old monarch first developed...

SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule docks at ISS 04 Mar 2013 - 01:08 am

CAPE CANAVERAL: A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule overcame a potentially mission-ending technical problem to make a belated but welcome arrival at the International...

British cardinal sorry for sexual conduct 04 Mar 2013 - 01:07 am

LONDON: Cardinal Keith O’Brien, who resigned last week as Britain’s most senior Roman Catholic cleric, yesterday admitted that his sexual conduct had “fallen...

Bangladesh deploys troops as toll hits 73 04 Mar 2013 - 01:06 am

Activists from Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami set fire to a pile of cotton material on a street during the first day of a two-day strike...

Five cops killed as Borneo violence spreads 04 Mar 2013 - 01:05 am

Filipino policemen secure the hometown of Rajah Mudah Abimuddin Kiram, in Simunul island, yesterday. KUALA LUMPUR: Gunmen have killed five policemen in Malaysia’s...

Bangkok governor gets second term 04 Mar 2013 - 01:04 am

Sukhumbhand Paribatra raises his arms with members of the Democrats party during a press conference in Bangkok, yesterday. BANGKOK: Bangkok’s governor swept back...

South Korean police shoot US soldier after chase 04 Mar 2013 - 01:04 am

SEOUL: An US soldier was shot and injured by South Korean police after a dramatic car chase through the capital Seoul early yesterday,...