Australian senator Xenophon emerging as kingmaker in tight election
ADELAIDE, Australia: As Australians cast their ballots in a tight election on Saturday afternoon, senator Nick Xenophon worked up a sweat…
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China to hold drills in disputed waters ahead of court ruling
BEIJING: China will hold military drills in the disputed South China Sea, the government said yesterday, ahead of an international…
Doctors again drain water from Thai king’s brain
BANGKOK: Doctors treating Thailand’s ailing King Bhumibol Adulyadej have drained a fresh build-up of water on the brain, the palace…
NASA spaceship barrels toward Jupiter, ‘planet on steroids’
MIAMI: Juno, an unmanned NASA spacecraft, is barrelling toward Jupiter on a $1.1 billion mission to circle the biggest planet…
Singapore to pursue firms over fires, despite Indonesian ire
JAKARTA: Singapore is refusing to back down in its pursuit of those responsible for haze-belching forest fires in Southeast Asia last…
Hostage-takers were from Bangladesh group, not IS, says minister
The jihadists who slaughtered 20 hostages at a Dhaka restaurant were members of a homegrown Bangladeshi militant outfit and not…
Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel dies
Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, the World War Two death camp survivor who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming…
Bangladesh in mourning after hostage bloodbath
DHAKA: Bangladesh began observing two days of national mourning Sunday after 20 hostages were slaughtered at a restaurant packed with…