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International
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Thursday, 14 April, 2011
Doha — The Libya Contact Group called for Muammar Gaddafi's departure from power and agreed on a funding mechanism for opposition forces, while stressing that a political solution was the only way out of the crisis in the North African country.
The group called for an immediate end to all attacks o
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Thursday, 14 April, 2011
AMMAN — Hundreds of women from a Syrian town that has witnessed mass arrests of its men marched along Syria's main coastal highway yesterday to demand their release, human rights activists said.
Security forces, including secret police, stormed Baida on Tuesday, going into houses and arresting men
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Thursday, 14 April, 2011
DUBAI — Bahrain should investigate the death in police custody of three people, US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said yesterday.
Bahrain has launched a security crackdown after its police forces quelled weeks of pro-democracy protests last month.
The opposition says hundreds have been arrested an
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Thursday, 14 April, 2011
Cairo — Egypt's prime minister has asked for the revision off all contracts to supply gas abroad, including to Israel, the official news agency MENA reported on yesterday.
Egypt supplies an estimated 40 per cent of Israel's gas in what, under ousted president Hosni Mubarak, was a highly controversi
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Thursday, 14 April, 2011
SANAA — At least seven people were killed, including four policemen who clashed with a dissident army unit, security sources and medics said, as anti-government protesters rallied across Yemen yesterday.
"Police attacked an army checkpoint in Jawlat Amran" in north Sanaa, "killing one officer and w
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Thursday, 14 April, 2011
NEW YORK — A Russian businessman bought a piece of history when he paid nearly $2.9 million at auction for the Vostok 3KA-2 capsule the Soviet Union launched on a test flight before sending the first human into space.
Evgeny Yurchenko bid $2,882,500 at Sotheby’s for the capsule, still scorched from
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Thursday, 14 April, 2011
SEOUL — South Korean troops staged a rare exercise yesterday to guard nuclear power plants against a possible attack by North Korean agents, the defence ministry said.
The drill involving hundreds of soldiers, anti-terror police, firefighters and government officials took place at the Gori complex
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Thursday, 14 April, 2011
SYDNEY — A British rower who has paddled across some of the world’s biggest seas to raise environmental awareness left Australia yesterday hoping to cross the Indian Ocean and complete a personal hat-trick.
Roz Savage, 42, set off from the western Australian city of Fremantle bound for Mumbai’s Gat
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Thursday, 14 April, 2011
SURABAYA, Indonesia — A biologist who enlisted schoolchildren in his fight to clean up an Indonesian river that led to an international prize said he hoped young people will do more for the environment.
Student research into a 41 km stretch of the Surabaya river that flows through Surabaya, Indones
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Wednesday, 13 April, 2011
TRIPOLI — Libyan dissidents reported heavy fighting in the besieged city of Misrata yesterday after France said Nato must step up bombing to stop Muammar Gaddafi's forces attacking civilians.
Nato took over air operations from a coalition of the United States, Britain and France on March 31 and dis
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