Monday, 20 May 2013 - 10 Rajab 1434 H
World
Former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is already eagerly awaiting a Pasay court’s decision on her petition to be granted bail in relation to her poll sabotage case, her lawyer said, according to a report published in the GMA News, Thursday.
Sweden raised the security alert for the country’s nuclear power plants Thursday after explosives were found on a truck at the southwestern atomic power station Ringhals. Police said they were investigating possible sabotage.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai warned Thursday that attacks against local police and soldiers were increasing as they prepare to take responsibility for security when NATO combat troops leave in 2014.
Bahraini police Thursday arrested five out of 20 people wanted over “terror attacks” including for alleged bombings and causing harm to civilians and security personnel, a top official said.
Friday, 22 - June 2012
An onlooker uses his mobile phone to take pictures of the burning Mantralaya building, which houses the Maharashtra state secretariat, in Mumbai, Thursday.
Friday, 22 - June 2012
A lawyer for a Pakistani doctor jailed after he helped the US track down Osama Bin Laden says the first hearing in his appeal was delayed.
Friday, 22 - June 2012
At least 47 people thought to be illegal migrants from east Africa died when their boat capsized in Lake Malawi, Malawi police said Thursday.
Friday, 22 - June 2012
The Arab League demanded Thursday that Russia stop supplying arms to Syria, as a regime onslaught of Homs and its surrounds appeared to stall a Red Cross bid to rescue trapped civilians.
Friday, 22 - June 2012
The speaker of Iraq’s parliament reaffirmed Thursday that lawmakers are prepared to oust the nation’s prime minister if he refuses to share authority with his political opponents and break a deadlock that has all but paralyzed the government.
Friday, 22 - June 2012
Ecuador’s president said Thursday his government would take its time in deciding whether to grant asylum to Julian Assange as the WikiLeaks founder spent a second night at its embassy in London.
Friday, 22 - June 2012
British Prime Minister David Cameron (L) greets Myanmar opposition politician
Friday, 22 - June 2012
Pakistani officials said Thursday that a French Al-Qaeda militant linked to the 9/11 attacks was probably heading to Somalia when he was captured near the Iranian border.
Friday, 22 - June 2012
A Sri Lankan refugee boat with 200 people believed to be on board capsized off Australia’s remote Christmas Island Thursday, with police saying scores could have died.
Friday, 22 - June 2012
South Korea, Japan and the United States Thursday began a joint naval exercise involving destroyers, supply ships and helicopters in a move denounced by North Korea as a “reckless provocation”.
Friday, 22 - June 2012
Romania’s former prime minister Adrian Nastase attempted suicide late Wednesday, hours after the Supreme Court threw out his appeal against a two-year jail sentence over corruption.
Friday, 22 - June 2012
An Indonesian air force plane crashed into a military housing complex in Jakarta on Thursday, killing ten crew members on board and critically injuring at least five other people, officials said.
Friday, 22 - June 2012
More than 80 people have been killed in a wave of communal violence in western Myanmar this month, a government official said Thursday, as local people said they still feared for their lives.
Friday, 22 - June 2012
An Indonesian militant accused of helping to build a massive car bomb used in the deadly 2002 Bali nightclub attacks has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Friday, 22 - June 2012
Turkey Thursday praised the positive attitude adopted by the new French president toward relations with Ankara, saying that sanctions imposed on Paris would no longer be implemented.
Friday, 22 - June 2012
China is moving to cut its imports of Iranian oil, tracking earlier efforts by countries such as India, Japan and South Korea which won them exemptions from tough new US sanctions, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said late Wednesday.
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