Moderate earthquake hits Banda sea in Indonesia
KUALA LUMPUR: A moderate earthquake, measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, occurred in the Banda Sea in Indonesia at 1.28pm…
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Hezbollah claims bomb attack on Israeli border patro
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement said it had targeted an Israeli army border patrol with a bomb on Monday in an…
Sub-zero weather kills 21 in Poland over weekend
WARSAW: Twenty-one people died over the weekend in Poland because of freezing weather amid one of the country’s deadliest cold…
Saudi severs diplomatic ties with Iran
Protesters ransack Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Tehran after the execution of a Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr RIYADH: Saudi Arabia…
Suu Kyi says peace process will be government’s priority
YANGON: Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi said yesterday the country’s peace process will be the first priority of her new…
Sri Lanka president pledges land for 100,000 war victims
COLOMBO: Up to 100,000 people still living in camps six years after the end of Sri Lanka’s brutal ethnic war…
Dutch investigators to study citizen journalism probe into MH17
THE HAGUE: Dutch prosecutors said Sunday they would ‘seriously study’ claims by citizen journalists to have identified Russian soldiers implicated…
Charlie Hebdo marks year since attack with provocative cover
PARIS: French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo will mark a year since the jihadist attack on its offices with a cover…