Russian PM Medvedev visits Crimea

SIMFEROPOL, Crimea: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev visited Crimea on Monday, flaunting his country's grip on the Black Sea peninsula following its annexation from Ukraine.Medvedev took several government officials with him on the highest-level...

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Turkish PM set to tighten grip after poll

ISTANBUL: Turkey's premier is bound to tighten and extend his grip on power, emboldened by sweeping local poll wins that came despite damaging graft claims and internet clampdowns, analysts said on Monday.Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after delivering a rousing...

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Security tightened at Malaysian airports

KUALA LUMPUR: In the wake of the crash of flight MH370, Malaysian authorities have issued new security instructions ordering that the pilot and co-pilot are not allowed to be left alone in the cockpit, even when one of them is taking a toilet break.Under...

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Sri Lanka ruling party wins vote test with lower margin

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's ruling party won local elections, but with smaller than expected margins in a crucial mid-term test for President Mahinda Rajapakse, official results showed on Sunday.The president campaigned for polls held Saturday for southern...

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Egypt: Soldier killed, 3 hurt in attack on bus

CAIRO: An Egyptian soldier was killed on Sunday when militants attacked the bus he was driving in the town of Al-Arish in the Sinai Peninsula, an army source said.The bus was transporting police officers, three of whom were wounded, the source said.There...

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Berlusconi's latest political strategy: Pet adoptions

ROME: Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has unveiled a scheme to boost his flagging popularity: finding homes for hundreds of thousands of stray dogs and cats to win the hearts of animal lovers, media reports said on Sunday."We need to find a...

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Russia agrees to turn over some weapons to Ukraine

MOSCOW: Russia's foreign ministry on Friday alleged that ethnic minorities in Ukraine are living in fear after the ouster of the country's president and the coming to power of interim authorities that include right-wing nationalists.The statement by...

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Libya releases video of Gadhafi's son apologizing

TRIPOLI (Libya): Libyan state TV has aired footage showing one of late dictator Moammar Gadhafi's sons jailed in Libya apologizing to the nation and asking for forgiveness.Prison authorities say the video, broadcast late on Thursday, is in response to...

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Obama makes fence-mending trip to S Arabia

ROME: President Barack Obama is making a fence-mending mission to Saudi Arabia, an important Middle East ally that's grown nervous as the US negotiates with Iran and pulls out troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.Obama on Friday left for an overnight trip...

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Ukraine defence chief resigns, troops leave Crimea

KIEV, Ukraine: Lawmakers in Ukraine accepted the resignation of the defence minister on Tuesday as thousands of troops began withdrawing from the Crimean Peninsula, now controlled by Russia.In address to parliament, Igor Tenyukh said he rejected criticism...

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Taliban attack Kabul poll office, 2 policemen killed

KABUL: Taliban militants staged a gun and suicide attack on an Afghan election commission office in Kabul on Tuesday, killing two police officers, with less than a fortnight to go before the presidential poll.The insurgents have vowed a campaign of violence...

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Rescue workers scour US mudslide rubble, up to 176 still missing

ARLINGTON, Washinton: Rescue workers sifted through mucky rubble on Tuesday amid dwindling hopes of finding any more survivors from among scores of people still missing from a devastating weekend mudslide in Washington state that killed at least 14.About...

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Thai protesters return to Bangkok's streets

BANGKOK: Anti-government demonstrators in Thailand resumed street protests on Monday after lying low for weeks, piling pressure on increasingly beleaguered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who is expected to face impeachment within days.Her opponents...

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China jails man for seeking repeat of Tiananmen protest: Amnesty

BEIJING: China has jailed for 18 months a man who tried to stage a repeat of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protest, rights group Amnesty International said on Monday, in another sign of the ruling Communist Party's intolerance of dissent.Public...

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Commuter train derails at Chicago airport: Police

CHICAGO: An eight-car Chicago commuter train plowed across a platform and scaled an escalator at an underground station at one of the nation's busiest airports on Monday, injuring 32 people on board, officials said.No one suffered life-threatening injuries...

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Pope appoints child victim to church group

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Saturday named a victim of sexual abuse by a priest to be part of a core group formed to help the Catholic Church tackle the problem of clerical pedophilia that has dogged it for two decades.The formation of a group of experts...

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Venue set for Pakistan, Taliban direct talks

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's negotiators have agreed on a location to hold direct peace talks with the Taliban, the head of the militant group's negotiation committee said on Saturday."The process of talking directly to the Taliban will start in two to three...

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Ecuadoran lawmaker jailed for slandering president

QUITO: An Ecuadoran lawmaker has been sentenced in absentia to 18 months in prison for slandering President Rafael Correa, with the judge issuing a warrant for his arrest.Opposition member Clever Jimenez was ruled to have defamed Correa by filing charges...

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France offers 4 warplanes for Baltic air patrols

PARIS: France is offering to send warplanes to help provide air patrols over the Baltic states and Poland, officials said Friday, amid growing tensions between the West and Russia and despite a looming big-ticket military deal between Paris and Moscow.Defense...

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Nato, Ukraine join military exercise in Bulgaria

SOFIA (Bulgaria): Ukraine has joined two weeks of multinational military exercises that involve troops from 12 Nato member and partner nations, and demonstrate that cooperation continues between the alliance and the crisis-torn former Soviet republic....

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Attack closes airport in Libyan capital

TRIPOLI, Libya: Libyan officials say they stopped planes from landing and taking off at Tripoli's international airport after two explosive projectiles struck a runway.Nasser el-Kerewi, head of the Tripoli security and stability committee, said it was...

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Train crashes into minibus in Turkey, 10 dead

ANKARA: A commuter train smashed into a minibus on a railway track in southern Turkey on Thursday, killing 10 people and injuring several others.The bus, which was carrying workers to an industrial zone in the Mediterranean province of Mersin, was hit...

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'Nearly half of Syrian chemical weapons removed'

BEIRUT: Nearly half of Syria's declared chemical weapons have been shipped out of the country after two more cargoes were loaded onto vessels in the Mediterranean over the last week, the international team overseeing the disarmament process said.The...

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Michelle Obama in China on hotly anticipated trip

BEIJING: US first lady Michelle Obama arrived in Beijing on Thursday evening, the official Xinhua news agency said, beginning a hotly anticipated week-long trip during which she will promote education and cultural ties.Obama, a Harvard-educated lawyer,...

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S Africa's Zuma slammed for $23m home makeover

PRETORIA: South African President Jacob Zuma "benefitted unduly" from a $23 million state-funded security upgrade to his private home that included a swimming pool, cattle enclosure and amphitheatre, the public protector said on Wednesday.In a damning...

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Malaysian shooting relatives lose UK court battle

LONDON: Britain's appeals court has rejected a bid by Malaysian families for an investigation into the deaths of 24 rubber plantation workers shot by British troops 66 years ago.Relatives have fought for years to force the British government to hold...

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Gun used against Pope John Paul II to be exhibited

WARSAW, Poland: The gun used by a would-be assassin to shoot Pope John Paul II will be on display at a museum dedicated to the pontiff as a sign of God's protection of him, according to a priests in charge of the museum.John Paul II, who died in 2005,...

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Suicide attack kills 16 in north Afghanistan

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Afghanistan): A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people at a crowded market in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, officials said, despite a tightening of security for presidential elections less than three weeks away.There was no immediate...

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Arrests of rights defenders in Lanka condemned

NEW YORK: The detention of prominent human rights defenders in Sri Lanka is an attempt to silence criticism and divert the spotlight from ongoing abuses, leading rights monitors have said.A joint statement was issued on Monday by Amnesty International,...

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UN identifies Syrian war criminals

GENEVA: A UN panel investigating human rights abuses in Syria has identified those responsible for crimes including hostage-taking, torture and executions and has put their names on a list of people who should eventually be held accountable for their...

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Final Crimea count: 97% back Russia

MOSCOW: The final results of the referendum in Crimea show that 97 per cent of voters have supported leaving Ukraine to join Russia, the head of the referendum election commission said on Monday.Mikhail Malyshev told a televised news conference that...

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NKorea crimes on par with Nazis: UN

GENEVA: The crimes of North Korea's regime are as chilling as those of the Nazis, South Africa's apartheid regime or Cambodia's Khmer Rouge and must be stopped, the head of a UN inquiry said on Monday."Contending with the great scourges of Nazism, apartheid,...

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Firearms expert testifies at Pistorius trial

PRETORIA: The manager of a South African gun training academy has said at Oscar Pistorius' murder trial that the athlete had "a great love and enthusiasm" for firearms. Sean Patrick Rens testified on Monday that he met the double-amputee runner in 2012...

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Heavy fighting near Syria rebel bastion

BEIRUT: Heavy clashes were underway Saturday at the entrance to the Syrian rebel bastion of Yabrud, a monitoring group said, a day after a military source said troops had entered the town.Yabrud sits near key rebel supply lines stretching into nearby...

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Gunmen kill 6 Egyptian soldiers at checkpoint

CAIRO: Egypt's state news agency said gunmen attacked a checkpoint manned by the military police in a suburb north of Cairo on early on Saturday, killing six of them, officials said.Separately, the country's most active militant group said that one of...

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Afghanistan doesn't need US troops: Karzai

KABUL: In his final address to Afghanistan's parliament on Saturday, President Hamid Karzai told the United States its soldiers can leave at the end of the year because his military, which already protects 93 per cent of the country, was ready to take...

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Extremists attack northern Nigeria city

MAIDUGURI (Nigeria): Suspected Islamic militants struck the northern city of Maiduguri on Friday morning, attacking the main military barracks and causing panicked residents to flee.Children walking to school when the shooting erupted cried in fear and...

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Venezuela cracks down as protests rage on

CARACAS: Police in protest-hit Venezuela stepped up a campaign of arrests and raids on Thursday, as authorities said the death toll from more than a month of anti-government demonstrations had risen to 28.President Nicolas Maduro has vowed to take "drastic...

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US to seek pledge on Crimea from Russia

LONDON: US secretary of state John Kerry will seek assurances from Russia at talks in London on Friday that it will not try to annex Crimea and will address concerns over Ukraine through negotiation, a senior state department official said.Kerry and...

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Japan won't change 1993 apology on 'comfort women'

TOKYO: Japan says it won't change its 1993 apology over a system of forced prostitution for its military during World War II, but will continue to re-examine a 20-year-old study on which it was based. Japan has come under fire from Asian neighbors for...

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Oscar Pistorius vomits in court as girlfriend’s autopsy discussed

PRETORIA: An overcome Oscar Pistorius vomited in court on Monday as he listened to harrowing expert testimony about the autopsy of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, whom he is accused of murdering.Sitting in the dock, a clearly emotional Pistorius retched...

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Thailand grapples with ‘massive’ fake passport racket

BANGKOK: With huge numbers of visitors and patchy law enforcement, Thailand has a booming black market for fake identity documents, and it was here that two passengers on a missing Malaysia Airlines jet were apparently able to get hold of stolen passports.Thai...

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Revolutionary opera director Gerard Mortier dies

BRUSSELS: Gerard Mortier, the Belgian opera director whose nonconformist style often grated the tradition-bound elite and who worked tirelessly to bring the art closer to the public, has died. He was 70.Belgium's prime minister made the announcement...

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Mother held in stabbing deaths of three daughters

MILAN: Authorities in the northern Italian city of Lecco say they have arrested a mother who confessed to stabbing to death her three young daughters.Carabinieri Col. Rocco Italiano said they arrested the mother, an Albanian national, after discovering...

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​No to Israel as Jewish state: Arab League chief

CAIRO: Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby has urged Arab countries to take a "firm stand" against Israel's demand that the Palestinians recognize it as a Jewish state, calling it a deviation from an agreed-upon framework for peace talks.Elaraby delivered...

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Stern Israeli airport security measures questioned

JERUSALEM: Jack Angelides was about to board a flight out of Israel's international airport when he was given a curious choice that baffles him to this day. Traveling with a laptop and a stack of printed reading material, he was told to part with one...

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