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International
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Tuesday, 18 June, 2013
ATHENS — A looming political crisis in Greece over the shock shutdown of state broadcaster ERT came to a head yesterday, with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras summoning his coalition allies to an emergency meeting.
Samaras called the meeting with the leaders of the smaller socialist and moderate left
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Monday, 17 June, 2013
QUETTA — Weeping relatives gathered yesterday to identify the charred remains of loved ones killed in a double attack in southwest claimed by a banned group.
At least 25 people were killed on Saturday when insurgents blew up a bus carrying female students in Quetta, capital of Baluchistan province,
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Sunday, 16 June, 2013
PARIS — Three top European defence firms called yesterday on governments to launch a programme
to manufacture drones that European countries are currently having
to buy from Israel or the United States.
France's Dassault Aviation, European aerospace giant EADS and Italy's Finmeccanica argued such
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Monday, 17 June, 2013
SEOUL — North Korea yesterday proposed high-level talks with the US on denuclearisation and easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, just days after it abruptly cancelled a rare meeting with the South.
Tension has been high on the peninsula since the North's third nuclear test in February that trig
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Monday, 17 June, 2013
GENEVA — Swiss President Ueli Maurer said yesterday he doubted Edward Snowden's claims about his activities as a CIA man in Geneva and would back a criminal investigation into the secrets leaker if Swiss prosecutors called for one.
Ex-CIA operative Snowden broke cover in spectacular fashion earlier
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Monday, 17 June, 2013
ATHENS — Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras yesterday dismissed talk of an early election over the abrupt closure of the state broadcaster, which brought protests from viewers, workers, the opposition and his coalition partners.
Samaras defended his decision to close ERT and relaunch what he said
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Monday, 17 June, 2013
LONDON — An EgyptAir plane which made an emergency landing in
Britain en route from Cairo to New York after a suspicious note was found on board resumed its journey yesterday.
British fighter jets escorted the plane to Glasgow Prestwick Airport on Saturday after the discovery of a note threatening
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Monday, 17 June, 2013
MOSCOW — Russia celebrated yesterday the 50th anniversary of the maiden flight of the first woman in space — a Soviet national hero who went by the call name "Seagull" and captured the imaginations of girls around the world.
Valentina Tereshkova, now a lawmaker for Russia's ruling party, blasted of
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Sunday, 16 June, 2013
ISTANBUL — Turkish protesters yesterday refused to budge from an Istanbul park at the centre of nationwide demonstrations after rejecting a government olive branch aimed at ending two weeks of deadly unrest.
The government said it would "make an evaluation" after protesters rebuffed Prime Minister
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Sunday, 16 June, 2013
12 women students dead in bus blast; survivors targeted again in hospital; Historic building gutted in Baluchistan -
QUETTA — Insurgents in western Pakistan bombed a bus carrying women university students yesterday and then seized part of the hospital where survivors of the attack were taken, killi
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