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Chinese middle class in uproar over alleged police brutality 28 Dec 2016 - 06:10 pm

BEIJING: Thousands among China's middle class are signing online petitions to protest the dropping of an alleged police brutality case, representing a rare...

Serial testers and cursory checks: India’s flawed generic drug trials business 28 Dec 2016 - 05:49 pm

HYDERABAD: Vasudeva Prakash left his job as a mechanic in Hyderabad three years ago for what he calls a more lucrative career: taking...

Beijing buyers club? China’s cancer patients gamble on grey market 28 Dec 2016 - 05:22 pm

SHANGHAI: When her father’s lung cancer worsened, Yin Min, a 51-year-old financial broker from Shanghai, faced a choice: pay nearly $3,000 a month...

Rise in baby trafficking in India cuts adoption numbers and fuels trade 28 Dec 2016 - 04:55 pm

MUMBAI: An increase in baby trafficking in India is reducing the number of children available for adoption and fuelling the lucrative trade as...

Traffickers get life in prison in India for chopping off labourers’ hands 28 Dec 2016 - 04:55 pm

Eight human traffickers found guilty of torturing and chopping off the hands of two labourers have received life prison sentences and hefty fines,...

German police detain alleged contact of Berlin truck attacker 28 Dec 2016 - 04:44 pm

Berlin: German police on Wednesday detained a Tunisian national on suspicion of having ties to Anis Amri, the suspected Berlin truck attacker gunned...

Bahraini activist Rajab freed on bail after months of detention 28 Dec 2016 - 04:30 pm

DOHA: A leading Bahraini activist was granted bail on Wednesday after months of detention while facing trail over a series of tweets. Nabeel...

Another black box from Russian plane found in Black Sea 28 Dec 2016 - 03:30 pm

MOSCOW: Another black box from the Russian plane which went down over the Black Sea on Sunday, killing all 92 people on board,...

Jordan sentences five to death for 'terror' 28 Dec 2016 - 03:27 pm

Amman: A court in Amman on Wednesday sentenced to death five Jordanian members of a dismantled cell linked to the Islamic State jihadist...

Suspects held after Pakistan alcohol poisoning kills 34 28 Dec 2016 - 03:25 pm

Islamabad: Pakistani police on Wednesday caught three men accused of preparing home-made liquor mixed with aftershave that killed 34 people including a fourth...

Dozens of Jewish settlers storm Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa 28 Dec 2016 - 02:46 pm

JERUSALEM: Dozens of Jewish settlers on Wednesday forced their way into East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound where they tried to perform Talmudic...

Photos: Bright sunny day after snowfall in Turkey 28 Dec 2016 - 02:39 pm

Cold weather causes ice dams and icicles hang from gutter eaves of roofs. Weather affects the everyday lives of people where temperature dropped...

Dozens of Boko Haram fighters surrender in southern Niger 28 Dec 2016 - 02:18 pm

NIAMEY: Dozens of Boko Haram fighters have given themselves up to authorities in southern Niger, the interior minister said, days after the Islamist...

Lebanon’s parliament green-lights new cabinet lineup 28 Dec 2016 - 01:30 pm

ISTANBUL: Lebanon’s parliament on Wednesday approved a new cabinet lineup headed by Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, according to Lebanon’s official National News Agency....

Soviet Afghan war made radical groups: Russian diplomat 28 Dec 2016 - 01:12 pm

MOSCOW: Russia’s presidential envoy to Afghanistan admits that destabilization in the country following the 1979 Soviet invasion might have led to the emergence...

273 Aleppans get treatment in Turkey 28 Dec 2016 - 12:59 pm

Turkey: The number of injured Aleppans treated in Turkey reached 273 after evacuation from the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo, the Turkish government...

Five dead, many injured as train slams into bus near Tunis 28 Dec 2016 - 12:30 pm

Tunis: At least five people were killed and more than 30 injured on Wednesday when a train slammed into a public bus near...

Death toll from Pakistan toxic liquor incident rises to 34 28 Dec 2016 - 12:13 pm

Islamabad: Thirty-four people have now died after drinking toxic home-made liquor on Christmas Eve in central Pakistan, officials said Wednesday, one of the...