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Omar urges PM to help return Guru’s body 27 Feb 2013 - 05:13 am

Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for the return of the remains of executed...

Karnataka CM in Delhi to lobby over Cauvery row 27 Feb 2013 - 05:13 am

Bangalore: Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar said here yesterday that he would meet central ministers and MPs from the state in New Delhi...

Govt defends Kerala leader over rape slur 27 Feb 2013 - 05:11 am

New Delhi: The government yesterday came out in defence of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P J Kurien in the 1996 Suryanelli rape case...

Robot restaurant 27 Feb 2013 - 05:09 am

A robot pushing a tray with dishes at a robot-themed restaurant in Harbin, China, yesterday. The outlet opened in June 2012 and has...

Aquino warns sultan in Malaysia standoff 27 Feb 2013 - 05:09 am

MANILA: Philippine President Benigno Aquino warned a sultan yesterday that he would face the “full force of the law” unless he withdrew his...

Japan will not stop whaling: Minister 27 Feb 2013 - 05:08 am

TOKYO: Japan’s fisheries minister said yesterday the country will not stop hunting whales, despite fierce criticism from other countries and clashes at sea...

HK maid residency trial begins 27 Feb 2013 - 05:08 am

HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s top court yesterday began a hearing to decide if the hundreds of thousands of domestic workers who make a...

Call for UN probe into Pyongyang’s violations 27 Feb 2013 - 05:07 am

GENEVA: Japan and the EU want the UN to launch an in-depth probe into rights abuses in North Korea, Japan’s vice foreign minister...

Lanka detainees continue to be abused: HRW 27 Feb 2013 - 05:07 am

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan security forces continue to use rape and other forms of sexual violence to torture suspected Tamil rebels nearly four years...

US sailors admit Okinawa rape 27 Feb 2013 - 05:07 am

TOKYO: Two US sailors yesterday admitted raping a Japanese woman in Okinawa last October, reports said, in a case that generated anti-US anger...

USS Guardian set to be dismantled 27 Feb 2013 - 05:06 am

MANILA: Forty days after it ran aground, the salvors who will remove the USS Guardian from the Tubbataha Reef will begin cutting the...

Kerry defends liberties, says Americans have ‘right to be stupid’ 27 Feb 2013 - 05:05 am

US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a news conference at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, Germany....

Italy at crossroads 27 Feb 2013 - 05:04 am

ROME: Italy was at an impasse yesterday after an election seen as crucial for the eurozone failed to produce a clear winner and...

Ten years on, Blair admits Iraq is not as he’d hoped 27 Feb 2013 - 05:04 am

LONDON: Former British prime minister Tony Blair admitted yesterday that the situation in Iraq is “not nearly” what he hoped it would be...

US Treasury pick Lew gets nod from senate panel 27 Feb 2013 - 05:04 am

WASHINGTON: The US Senate Finance Committee yesterday voted yesterday to back President Barack Obama’s nominee Jack Lew as Treasury secretary despite qualms about...

Benedict to become ‘Pope Emeritus’ 27 Feb 2013 - 05:03 am

VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI will be known as “Pope Emeritus” and can continue to wear the white papal cassock after he steps...

Strauss-Kahn in court to seek ban on tell-all book 27 Feb 2013 - 05:02 am

PARIS: Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn appeared in a Paris court yesterday to try to ban a graphic new book by author...

19 killed in Egypt hot air balloon crash 27 Feb 2013 - 04:59 am

Security personnel guard the wreckage of the hot air balloon that crashed in Luxor, yesterday. LUXOR, Egypt: At least 19 people, most of...