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Thai military stages coup after talks fail 23 May 2014 - 08:54 am

Thai soldiers with heavy machine gun take position as they advance on pro-government Red Shirts after the army declared a coup at the...

Vietnam mulls action against China 23 May 2014 - 08:52 am

Philippine President Benigno Aquino (left) smiles as he sits with his Indonesian counterpart Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, (second left), Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan...

Indian consulate attacked in Afghanistan 23 May 2014 - 08:52 am

KABUL: A group of militants attacked the Indian consulate in western Herat province of Afghanistan early Friday morning. The three gunmen opened fire...

Biggest attack in years kills 31 in China’s troubled Xinjiang region 23 May 2014 - 08:51 am

BEIJING: Explosives hurled from two vehicles which ploughed into an open market in China’s troubled Xinjiang region killed 31 people yesterday, state media...

S Korea’s Park names ex-chief justice as new PM 23 May 2014 - 08:50 am

SEOUL: South Korean President Park Geun-Hye yesterday named a former Supreme Court judge as her new prime minister, as the fallout from last...

Indian, guides missing after Nepal landslide 23 May 2014 - 08:49 am

KATHMANDU: A female Indian climber and two sherpas are missing after being hit by an avalanche while climbing on Mount Kanchenjunga, her family...

Dutch Eurosceptic party stumbles 23 May 2014 - 08:48 am

A woman drops her ballot into a container at the gym of an elementary school used as a polling station during European Parliament...

Thirteen Ukrainians killed in clash with pro-Russia rebels 23 May 2014 - 08:46 am

Supporters of Ukrainian independent presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko attend an election campaign rally in Lviv yesterday. KIEV: Ukraine said more than a dozen...

Europe kicks off parliamentary polls 23 May 2014 - 08:42 am

LONDON: Europe kicked off its mammoth parliamentary elections yesterday, with Britain and the Netherlands going to the polls in a vote that is...

Moscow scolds Prince Charles over remarks 23 May 2014 - 08:42 am

LONDON/MOSCOW: Prince Charles’s comparison of Vladimir Putin with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler triggered a diplomatic row yesterday when Moscow scolded the heir to...

Obama aims to lure more travellers 23 May 2014 - 08:41 am

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will move to reduce airport waiting times for foreign travellers arriving in the United States in order to...

Nigerian teachers strike, hold rallies over kidnapped girls 23 May 2014 - 08:40 am

MAIDUGURI: Nigerian teachers went on strike and staged rallies nationwide yesterday in protest against the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls by the...

IAEA report to show Tehran curbing atomic activity 23 May 2014 - 08:37 am

Iranian President Hassan Rowhani (right) and China’s President Xi Jinping attend a welcoming ceremony at the Xijiao State Guest House in Shanghai yesterday....

Army breaks Aleppo prison siege 23 May 2014 - 08:36 am

Free Syrian Army fighters sit on a vehicle mounted with an anti-aircraft gun in Hama yesterday. DAMASCUS: Syria’s army broke a year-long siege...

Vatican defends Palestinian sovereignty 23 May 2014 - 08:32 am

Palestinians hold pictures of loved ones in Israeli prisons in front of banners of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Pope Francis outside the...

Nuclear talks at tough juncture, says Rowhani 23 May 2014 - 08:29 am

SHANGHAI: Iranian President Hassan Rowhani said yesterday that talks over Tehran’s nuclear programme had reached an important and tough juncture, but an agreement...

No sign Syria is handing over last batch of chemical weapons: Official 23 May 2014 - 08:28 am

AMSTERDAM: Syria has made no progress in relinquishing a last batch of chemical weapons it says is inaccessible due to fighting, making it...

Lebanon heading for presidential vacuum 23 May 2014 - 08:28 am

BEIRUT: Lebanese parliamentarians failed yesterday in a last effort to elect a successor to President Michel Suleiman before his term expires, leaving a...