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Veterans to shun war commemoration 29 Aug 2015 - 12:00 am

President Pranab Mukherjee lays a wreath at Amar Jawan Jyoti-All India War Memorial at India Gate, in New Delhi, yesterday. New Delhi: India...

Border firing kills 10 civilians 29 Aug 2015 - 12:00 am

Pakistani activists from Shabab-e-Milli party shout anti-Indian slogans during a protest against cross-border fire along the India-Pakistan Line of Control in Peshawar, yesterday. ...

WB approves $75m to rehabilitate people displaced by militancy 29 Aug 2015 - 12:00 am

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank (WB) yesterday approved $75m credit line for Pakistan that would be mainly utilised for providing cash grants to Temporarily...

Four arrested over Austria truck tragedy 29 Aug 2015 - 12:00 am

A child of a migrant family creeps under the barbed fence near the village of Roszke on the Hungarian-Serbian border yesterday. Vienna: Hungary...

Syriza leads polls as Greece sets vote for Sept 20 29 Aug 2015 - 12:00 am

Athens: Greece geared up yesterday for a snap election next month, with an opinion poll showing leftist party Syriza ahead despite a wave...

Erika claims 12 lives in Dominican Republic 29 Aug 2015 - 12:00 am

General view after the passage of Tropical Storm Erika in the Eastern Caribbean in Roseau, Dominica, yesterday. MIAMI: Tropical Storm Erika threatened Haiti...

Bush hails New Orleans ‘resilience’ 29 Aug 2015 - 12:00 am

Former president George W Bush talks with Ashantae Martin (left) and Ronjae Pleasant at Warren Easton Charter High School one day before the...

Iraq PM orders forces to prepare to open Green Zone 29 Aug 2015 - 12:00 am

Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi has ordered security forces to prepare to open Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone government and embassy...

Huge protest against graft in Iraq capital 29 Aug 2015 - 12:00 am

Iraqi protesters wave their national flags and shout slogans during a demonstration against corruption in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square yesterday. Baghdad: Thousands of Iraqis...

2 British journalists detained in Turkey 28 Aug 2015 - 07:55 pm

Members of the riot police by an armoured vehicle during demonstration in Ankara on June 5, 2013 (AFP) ANKARA: Turkish police have detained...

9 hours battling death at sea off the Libyan coast 28 Aug 2015 - 07:05 pm

Migrants rescued by Libyan coastguard after their boat sank on August 28, 2015 (AFP) ZUWARA: Pakistani teenager Shefaz Hamza spent nine hours at...

Italy arrests 10 traffickers over migrant boat deaths 28 Aug 2015 - 06:32 pm

A boat carrying migrants when it sank is pulled to shore in Zuwara, Libya (AP) ROME: Italian authorities said Friday they had arrested...

US Teen jailed more than 11 years for IS conviction 28 Aug 2015 - 06:28 pm

WASHINGTON: A tech-savvy US teenager from Virginia was sentenced to 11 years and four months in prison on Friday for conspiring to provide...

Mozambican journalist shot dead in drive-by attack 28 Aug 2015 - 06:00 pm

MAPUTO: A veteran Mozambican crime journalist was killed in a drive-by shooting in downtown Maputo on Friday in an attack that echoed the...

At least 78 dead in Libya refugee boat disaster 28 Aug 2015 - 05:41 pm

Migrants wait to be rescued from an overcrowded boat off the coast of Libya on August 23, 2015 (AFP: Photo) LIBYA: At least...

At least 11 Daesh Militants Killed in Anbar 28 Aug 2015 - 05:01 pm

The photo shows security forces in Iraq’s western province of Anbar. (AFP) BAGHDAD: 11 Daesh militants, some of them belonging to foreign nationalities,...

About 50 migrants found dead inside truck in Austria 28 Aug 2015 - 01:19 am

Forensic experts investigate a lorry in which refugees were found dead on autobahn A4 between Parndorf and Neusiedl, Austria, yesterday. Vienna: Austrian police...