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Top Bangladesh Islamist ‘may hang ...

Top Bangladesh Islamist ‘may hang next week’

DHAKA : Bangladesh may hang a senior Islamist leader as early as next week after the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence for war crimes, the law minister said Thursday. Mohammad Kamaruzzaman of the Jamaat-e-Islami party would be the second senior Islamist to hang for crimes committed during... read more »

China Develops Laser System Against Dron...

China Develops Laser System Against Drones

Chinese engineers have successfully tested a laser weapon that can shoot down low-flying, slow-moving drones, state media reported Tuesday. The Low Altitude Sentinel system can detect a small aircraft within a 2-kilometer (1.2-mile) radius and shoot it down within five seconds, the... read more »

9 killed in landslides in southwest Chin...

9 killed in landslides in southwest China

Nine people have been killed inlandslides that struck southwest China’s Yunnan province last week. Nine people were buried as the disasterhit Xiaoxin Village in Dongchuan District of the provincial capital Kunming City last Tuesday, the district’s publicity department said. Two bodies... read more »

Six killed in China bus accident

Six killed in China bus accident

Beijing: At least six people were killed and 40 injured Monday when a passenger bus overturned in China`s Shanghai city. The accident occurred on a road leading to a bridge connecting the country`s business and financial centre with Yangshan island, Xinhua reported. The injured have been rushed to... read more »

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Japan to set up US-style security agency

Shinzo Abe issues fresh warning to China for activity on disputed...

Tokyo – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has issued a fresh warning to China against its increasing maritime activities near the disputed Senkaku Island in the East China Sea. Abe promised... read more »

China aims at common development with neighbours: Xi Jingping

China aims at common development with neighbours: ...

Beijing – Chinese President Xi Jinping said Beijing will strive for a sound neighbouring environment for its own development and seek common... read more »

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Swine flu cases in Bahrain rise to six

TWO more swine flu cases have been recorded in Bahrain this week, bringing the total to six. The GDN yesterday obtained the Health Ministry’s Weekly Feedback Reports circulated to health... read more »

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MANAMA: London’s Lord Mayor yesterday described Bahrain as a gateway for Britain to do business with the region – and also enter Africa... read more »

Bank and Gulf Air sign agreement

MANAMA -Khaleeji Commercial Bank (KHCB) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Gulf Air which entitles KHCB’s credit card holders to discounts on... read more »

Winter Olympics begins

SOCHI, Russia: Russian President Vladimir Putin declared the Sochi Winter Games officially open yesterday at a high-octane opening ceremony before 40,000... read more »

Hyundai registers record sales in Middle East

MANAMA: Hyundai Motor Company has announced record sales across the Middle East region last year, for the second year in succession. The world’s fourth... read more »

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Tamil poet Jeyapalan arrested in Sri Lanka for violating visa condition

Tamil poet Jeyapalan arrested in Sri Lanka for violating visa con...

Norwegian Tamil poet and actor V.I.S. Jeyapalan has been arrested in Sri Lanka for violating visa regulations. Jaffna-born Jeyapalan, 79, was arrested on Friday at Mankulam in the country’s north,... read more »

Prachanda to visit India to meet ailing daughter

Nepal polls: Triple whammy for Prachanda

Kathmandu – The 2013 Constituent Assembly elections in Nepal have dealt a severe blow to Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M)... read more »

Relations with India a priority, says Maldives presiden...

Relations with India a priority, says Maldives president

New Delhi – Newly-elected! Maldives President Abdulla Yameen says his country’s relations with India were a priority. In a letter to Prime... read more »

No double standards on drone strikes: Sharif

No double standards on drone strikes: Sharif

Islamabad – Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Friday said the government has no double standards in condemning the drone strikes by the... read more »

US can’t be trusted on drones issue: Pakistan min...

US can't be trusted on drones issue: Pakistan minister

Islamabad – Pakistan’s Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Friday said US assurances over the drone attacks issue could not be trusted, a... read more »

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The number of victims of terrorist attacks Sunday in Xinjiang has increased to fifty

Chinese authorities announced that as a result of the terrorist attacks in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region on Sunday, September 21 killed 50 people. Among the dead – 40 suicide... read more »

13 dead in China firework plant explosion

CHANGSHA – Thirteen people have been confirmed dead and one more remained missing after an explosion at a firework plant in central China’s Hunan Province on Monday, local... read more »

Israeli Army kills suspected murderers of Jewish teens

Jerusalem: Two Palestinians suspected of having kidnapped and murdered three Jewish teenagers in June have been killed in an exchange of fire with Israeli security forces in the West Bank... read more »

Lawyer: Uighur scholar in China gets life sentence

BEIJING – An outspoken scholar who championed China’s Uighur minority was convicted of separatism Tuesday by a Chinese court and sentenced to life in prison, according to the... read more »

1,30,000 Syrian refugees reach Turkey fleeing IS

ANKARA, Turkey: The number of Syrian refugees who have reached Turkey in the past four days after fleeing the advance of Islamic State militants now totals 1,30,000, Turkey’s deputy prime... read more »