31 May 2012 - 11:08pm
CAIRO: Egypt's decades-old state of emergency came to an end on Thursday as its last renewal expired, the ruling military said, vowing to continue to protect the nation.
The military will continue its national and historic responsibility, taking into account that the state of emergency has ended, in accordance with the constitutional...
31 May 2012 - 3:18pm
BEIRUT: Armed rebels have given the Damascus regime until noon (0900 GMT) Friday to stick to Kofi Annan's peace plan to end the violence in Syria, warning they themselves will quit the truce unless the ultimatum is met.
"If the Syrian regime does not meet the deadline by Friday midday, the command of the Free Syrian Army announces that it...
31 May 2012 - 2:42pm
WASHINGTON: India called Wednesday for greater coordination with the United States on Afghanistan, voicing fear that Islamic radicals would gain strength once Western forces pull out.
NATO leaders in a May 21 summit in Chicago committed to pulling combat troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014 as Western nations grow tired of...
30 May 2012 - 11:12pm
LONDON: Britain's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden, but put his deportation on hold to give his lawyers a final chance to reopen the case.
The court, which handed down its decision after an 18-month legal marathon, rejected Assange's argument that the Swedish prosecutor who...
30 May 2012 - 12:00am
DAMASCUS: Western governments ordered out top Syrian diplomats on Tuesday in protest at the killing of at least 108 people in a central town last week as international envoy Kofi Annan met President Bashar al-Assad in a bid to rescue his battered peace plan. The apparently coordinated moves by the European Union, the United States and other...
29 May 2012 - 5:18pm
VATICAN CITY: The flood of secret Vatican documents leaked to the press, enraging the Holy See, aims to oust the Church's powerful number two and maybe to replace the pope himself, experts say.
The so-called Vatileaks scandal is a plot within the intrigue-filled Vatican City to unseat Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, seen by some as wielding...
29 May 2012 - 3:02pm
SINGAPORE: Singapore police warned Tuesday that members of a Chinese crime syndicate were believed to be stealing money from the bags of passengers while they slept on flights to and from the country.
Eighteen reports about in-flight thefts have been filed so far this year, up from only one in 2011, said Assistant Commissioner of Police Sam...
29 May 2012 - 2:23pm
DENPASAR: Four Britons and one Indian national were arrested on the resort island of Bali for drug smuggling, police said Monday, and could face death under Indonesia's stiff anti-drug laws.
Briton Lindsay June Sandiford, 56, was arrested on May 19 with almost five kilos of cocaine at the airport here, arriving on a Thai Airways flight from...
28 May 2012 - 4:41pm
KUALA LUMPUR: In a recent speech, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said that with the economies of America and Europe in trouble due to decades of financial mismanagement, Asian countries should work more closely together and play a leading role in creating a new economic and political system for the benefit of the world. Speaking at the Future of...
28 May 2012 - 2:44pm
DAMASCUS: UN-Arab envoy Kofi Annan expressed horror at the Houla massacre of more than 100 people as he began a visit to Syria on Monday aimed at salvaging his battered peace plan.Annan called the tragic massacre in the central town an appalling moment with profound consequences. The former UN chief said those responsible for the massacre...
