was held at Cairo airport on arrival and ordered to return on the flight back to Yemen, the officials said without providing further details. The activist, who was a leading figure during the 2011 youth uprising in Yemen that eventually forced out veteran ...
China building worlds highest altitude airport near Tibet
The 4,411-metre-high Daocheng Yading Airport will surpass the Bangda Airport in Qamdo Prefecture in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region which has an elevation of 4,334 metres above sea ...
US willing to engage with Iran on nuclear concerns White House says
Hasan Rouhani to address concerns about Iran's nuclear program if Iran will engage seriously on the issue. "The inauguration of President Rouhani presents an opportunity for Iran to act quickly to resolve the international community's deep concerns over Iran's nuclear ...
Heavy rains bring flash floods to eastern Afghanistan levelling homes and killing 58
Heavy rains swept across eastern Afghanistan, levelling homes and killing at least 58 people in five provinces, while an estimate 30 others remain missing, officials said Sunday.Provincial spokesmen in Nangarhar, Kabul, Khost, Laghman and Nuristan said that all the floods struck early Saturday. Flash floods are common in those provinces and all are fed by rivers that eventually intersect in ...
Syrias Assad bans foreign currency transactions SANA
"It is prohibited to make payments, reimbursements, commercial transactions and any other commercial operation in foreign currency or in precious metals," it quoted the decree as saying. "The Syrian lira is the only currency", allowed in business and commerce, SANA added. Those breaking the law risk jail sentences of between six months and 10 years of hard labour, depending ...
Iran makes Asian champ look ordinary
WITH its athletic forwards, gutsy guards and NBA center turning the Mall of Asia Arena into a playground of sorts, Iran roared to a third straight win, leaving traditional powerhouse China looking like a basketball program in disarray. The record of the continent's most successful basketball team says it all: 1-2. The defending champions got pipped by South Korea and then bamboozled ...
Asia will be worth 178 billion tourism Dollars for Australia
The Asia Marketing fund will be shifting the tourism industry in Australia. Tourism Australia would receive $11.1 million this financial year to entice further arrival growth from Asia. The Asian region could collectively be worth more than $17.8 billion to Australia's tourism industry by 2020, a media release by Tourism Minister Gary Gray quoted him as saying on Sunday. That would ...
Baby-shower thrown for 1st panda born in Taiwan
Taipei zoo held a "baby-shower" party on Sunday to celebrate the one month birthday of the first panda born in Taiwan as the cub continues to be a star attraction even though she has yet to appear in ...
Hasan Rouhani takes oath of office as Irans president
In this picture released by the official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (left) gives his official seal of approval to president-elect Hasan Rouhani in an official endorsement ceremony, in Tehran on August 3, 2013. (Via ...
Weeks ahead of Asia Cup injury forces SV Sunil out of Indian hockey squad
India's prospect in the upcoming Asia Cup hockey tournament were dealt a severe blow after star forward S V Sunil had to be ruled out of August 24-September 1 event due to an elbow injury.Sunil has become the latest casualty after injuries forced strikers Akashdeep Singh, Danish Mujtaba and Gurwinder Singh Chandi also to sit out of the all-important tournament.Sunil, a livewire on the turf ...
247000 people affected by flooding in Philippines
Maguindanao were affected by flooding following heavy rains, authorities said Sunday. The displaced came from 185 villages in 20 municipalities, Xinhua ...
Australian PM Rudd calls election on September 7Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd called a general election on Sunday for September 7 six weeks after he toppled former leader Julia Gillard in a party-room vote.
Julia Gillard in a party-room vote, ending a turbulent three years in power for the minority Labor government. He announced the election date in an email to supporters. Rudd, who was dumped by his centre-left party in June 2010, has generated a spike in public support since he returned but conservative opposition ...
Quake shakes northeastern Japan no tsunami riskA strong earthquake shook northeastern Japan on Sunday in the same region devastated by a giant tsunami and temblor 2-12 years ago but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
quake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 struck shortly after midday, and was centered off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture, and 50 kilometers (30 miles) below the seabed. The quake shook a wide region, including Fukushima and Iwate prefectures, and there was no risk of a tsunami, the Japan Meteorological Agency ...
Zimbabwe Mugabe faces growing fallout after disputed win
Official results showed Mugabe won 61 per cent of the presidential vote and his party got a super majority in parliament that will allow it to change the constitution. He routed Tsvangirai who trailed heavily with 34 per ...
SE Asian trip shows Abe?s game-playing
Illustration: Peter C.Espina/GT Right after the dust had settled in the election of the upper house of Japan's National Diet, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose bloc won the election by a large margin, paid another visit to Southeast Asia. Abe visited Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines in late July. The three-day trip covers a series of strategic plans and orientations. ...
Chinas largest search-and-rescue ship concludes goodwill visit to Australia Southeast Asia
Chinese patrol and search-and-rescue vessel "Haixun 01" left Malaysia for home on Sunday, concluding its goodwill visit to Australia and three Southeast Asian countries.Officials of the Chinese Embassy in Malaysia and representatives of Chinese enterprises waved off China Maritime Safety Administration (MSA)'s largest and most advanced vessel at port Klang.During the visit to ...
South Korea losing patience with North on Kaesong talks
South Korea on Sunday warned the North it was "reaching the limit" of its patience over stalled talks to revive a joint industrial complex once seen as a rare symbol of cooperation between the ...
Floods inundate 70 villages in Pakistan death toll at 50
Pakistan's Punjab province , leaving thousands of people stranded. At least 50 people have been killed so far and over 50 injured since yesterday as heavy rains played havoc in Punjab, parts of Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, while the financial hub of Karachi was inundated in torrential downpours. Water overflowing from Dek channel has inundated over 70 villages in the Pasrur and ...
Alliance with Syria to continue Rouhani
"No force in the world can shake the solid, strategic and historic relations that bind the two countries in friendship," Rouhani told Halqi, who was in Tehran for the Iranian president's swearing-in. "Syrian-Iranian relations are based on understanding and a common destiny," the Syrian Arab News Agency quoted him as saying. The new president pledged, "Iran's ...
Sri Lanka steps up security as protest toll rises
COLOMBO - Police poured into a village near Sri Lanka's capital ahead of the funeral Sunday of a teenager shot dead by troops during a protest against contaminated water, residents said. Security in the village was strengthened as a hospital official said a third person has died after succumbing to injuries sustained during the army's crackdown on the residents' protest on ...
Egypt army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi holds talks with Islamists
Mohamed Morsi against Egypt's new leaders. Sisi "met with several representatives of the Islamist movements and stressed that there are opportunities for a peaceful solution to the crisis provided all sides reject violence," army spokesman Colonel Ahmed Aly said in a statement, without specifying who his interlocutors were. Morsi loyalists have been holding two major sit-ins ...
Irans Rouhani tells Syria PM alliance will stay strong
The new president pledged, "Iran's unwavering support for the Syrian people and government, in order to restore stability, face up to challenges, support efforts for reform and find a peaceful solution to the ...
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