29 Jun 2012 - 3:08pm
DAMASCUS: Diplomats scrambled Friday to save a peace plan for Syria in the face of 11th-hour objections from Russia that threaten a key international conference on ending the nearly 16-month long conflict.
Western governments have told UN-Arab League peace envoy Kofi Annan that there is no point in going ahead with Saturday's planned...
29 Jun 2012 - 3:33am
LONDON: British police served an extradition notice Thursday on Julian Assange, but the WikiLeaks founder indicated he was staying put in the Ecuadorian embassy, where he is seeking asylum.
Scotland Yard said they had served a surrender notice on the 40-year-old Australian requiring him to attend a police station, adding that failure to do...
28 Jun 2012 - 3:36pm
DAMASCUS: Peace envoy Kofi Annan is proposing a transitional government for Syria including members from both sides of the country's war, diplomats said Wednesday.
The call came after UN investigators reported on atrocities committed inside the country, where rights groups say more than 15,000 people have been killed since an uprising...
27 Jun 2012 - 2:38pm
SINGAPORE: The founder of one of Singapore's richest churches was charged in court Wednesday for allegedly syphoning off nearly $19 million of the congregation's money to support his wife's singing career.
Pastor Kong Hee, 47, faced three charges of criminal breach of trust relating to the misuse of the funds of the City Harvest Church, one...
27 Jun 2012 - 2:26pm
CAIRO: Egypt's president-elect Mohamed Morsi pushed ahead on Wednesday with selecting a government, after a court delivered a blow to the ruling military, suspending its powers to arrest civilians.
Egypt's first civilian president, and its first elected leader since an uprising ousted president Hosni Mubarak early last year, still has to contend...
27 Jun 2012 - 2:04pm
DUSHANBE: Extending credits worth almost $2 billion, mighty China is spreading its influence to its poor ex-Soviet neighbour Tajikistan in the hope of winning mineral riches and a loyal strategic ally.
Tajikistan is the poorest nation to have emerged from the USSR's collapse, with a Gross National Income per capita of $780 per year and...
26 Jun 2012 - 3:15pm
PARIS: The willingness of Western powers to work with Egypt's Islamist president-elect Mohamed Morsi recognises the growth of the Muslim Brotherhood and shows a concern for regional stability, analysts say.The United States, the European Union, France and Britain, all hailed the vote as a historic moment for Egypt with its first...
26 Jun 2012 - 4:01am
MADRID: Spain formally requested Monday a banking rescue of up to 100 billion euros ($125 billion) and Cyprus also asked for a bailout, as a pivotal week for the eurozone's future began.
With EU leaders under mounting pressure to take steps to deepen integration to finally get to grips with the debt crisis at a two-day summit beginning on...
25 Jun 2012 - 5:15pm
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians should be careful not to fall for opposition promises, says former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, because it is unlikely the opposition could deliver on those promises without serious consequences. Dr Mahathir highlighted the difficulties currently plaguing Europe’s economies, and said Malaysians should look...
25 Jun 2012 - 3:28pm
LONDON: It sounds like a brainteaser: how could WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange get from Ecuador's embassy here onto a plane to its capital Quito, without setting foot on British territory?
When he walked into the embassy on Tuesday seeking political asylum, the Australian ex-hacker pinned his hopes on Ecuador as his ticket out of extradition to...
