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US President Barack Obama greets New York Governor Mario Cuomo watched by (from left) Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano,...

WOLSELEY, South Africa: Striking South African farmworkers resisted a government call to return to work yesterday and demanded action against police over the...

LONDON: Radio and TV presenter Dave Lee Travis was reportedly arrested yesterday as part of the British police investigation set up in the...

PARIS: A French mayor who went on hunger strike a week ago to demand emergency aid for his town ended his protest yesterday...

CAPE TOWN: South African President Jacob Zuma hit back at accusations he is failing the county before a raucous parliamentary hearing  yesterday, hours...

MOSCOW: The Kremlin denounced a rise in anti-Russian rhetoric in Germany yesterday before a visit by Chancellor Angela Merkel and made clear that...

By Mufti Taqi Usmani Muharram is the month with which the Muslims begin their lunar Hijrah calendar. It is one of the four...

There are many aspects of Prophet Muhammad’s (peace be upon him) personality that are not just admirable in and of themselves, but also...

Smoke rises from a Hamas site after it was hit by an Israeli air strike in the East of Gaza City, yesterday. GAZA...

MOSCOW: Israel was condemned yesterday by much of the Arab world while securing Western backing and pressing its biggest air assault on Gaza...

  cairo: Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil will visit the Gaza Strip today as Israel presses a major air campaign against the territory, the...

Senior Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal with Tunisian Islamist Ennahda party leader Rached Ghannouchi during the opening session of the 8th general conference of...

DOHA: The Muslim Brotherhood has no intention of monopolising the revolt in Syria, the group’s deputy leader said, despite fears its close ties...

  BEIRUT: Violence in Syria since an uprising against President Bashar Al Assad’s regime erupted 20 months ago has claimed the lives of more...

  ANKARA: Turkey’s Islamic-rooted ruling party has proposed removing references to the nation’s founding father Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the parliamentary oath, parliamentary sources...

Policemen stand behind barricades in a cordoned-off road leading to the residence of ailing right-wing Hindu party Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray in...

Guwahati: Indefinite curfew was imposed in Assam’s troubled Kokrajhar district yesterday after suspected militants shot dead a man and stabbed another. The stray...

New Delhi: Myanmar’s opposition leader and pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday hoped for deepening of exchanges between parliaments of the two...