TOULOUSE: Shots rang out Wednesday as French police surrounded a self-declared member of the Al-Qaeda network holed up in a house after a series of shooting attacks that shocked the nation.
Police sources told that officers investigating three...
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Bodies of victims land in Israel
TEL AVIV: The bodies of three children and a rabbi who were shot dead at a Jewish school in France arrived in Israel early on Wednesday ahead of a burial service in Jerusalem, an airport source said.
The bodies of 30-year-old Rabbi Jonathan Sandler,...
Sarkozy puts region on highest alert
PARIS: French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday he was putting the country's southwestern region on its highest terror alert level after a shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse left four dead.
Sarkozy said the same gunman had attacked the...
Gunman kills 4 at French Jewish school
TOULOUSE: A suspected serial killer shot dead three children and a teacher at a Jewish school in France on Monday, in what was branded an anti-Semitic attack, plunging the nation into shock.
President Nicolas Sarkozy declared the murders a "national...
China closes 16 websites
BEIJING: China has shut down websites, made a string of arrests and punished two popular microblogs after rumours of a coup linked to a major political drama that led to the fall of a rising star.
Authorities closed 16 websites for spreading...
China pressures NK over missile plan
SHANGHAI: China put rare public pressure on ally North Korea over the reclusive state's plan to launch a long-range rocket which is raising tension in the region and could scupper a recent aid deal with the United States.
The announcement of...
China's Communist Party sacks top leader
BEIJING: Bo Xilai, the charismatic but controversial Communist Party leader of China's Chongqing metropolis, has been removed from his post, the state news agency Xinhua said on Thursday.
The move, which comes ahead of a major leadership transition...
China passes controversial criminal law
BEIJING: Chinese lawmakers on Wednesday passed into law controversial changes that give the police powers to detain some suspects for up to six months in secret locations known as "black jails".
Detentions in unofficial locations such as hotels...
Clinton urges China to prove intentions
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday called on China to show in "concrete ways" that its rise is in the world's interest, saying that Beijing needs to take greater responsibility.
In a wide-ranging speech on relations...
China urged to increase military ability
BEIJING: China must enhance the ability of its military to win "local wars", Premier Wen Jiabao will tell the parliament at the opening of its annual session on Monday.
"We will enhance the armed forces' capacity to accomplish a wide range of...
China boosts security spending by 11.5pc
BEIJING: China will increase spending on police and other arms of "public security" by 11.5percent to $111 billion this year, according to figures released on Monday that showed outlays on domestic law and order again exceeded the defence budget.
The...
China steps up Internet control in Tibet
BEIJING: China's top leader in Tibet has ordered increased controls over the Internet and mobile phones, state press said Thursday, ahead of upcoming sensitive anniversaries in the restive region.
Chen Quanguo, Communist Party head of Tibet,...
Twenty dead in attack in China's west
BEIJING: Attackers wielding knives killed 13 people in China's Xinjiang region before police shot seven of them dead, the government said, in the latest violence to strike the ethnically divided northwestern area.
The Xinjiang government said...
Gas leak at China steel plant kills 3
SHANGHAI: Gas leak at an east China steel works Thursday left three workers dead and 10 injured, the government said, in the latest industrial accident to hit the nation.
The leak occurred at the Meishan steel plant in the city of Nanjing, with...
China factory blast kills 13, injures 17
BEIJING: An explosion at a steel plant in northeastern China killed 13 people and injured another 17, a company official said Tuesday, in the latest industrial accident to hit the country.
The blast happened late Monday in a steel casting workshop...
Hundreds gather in China for protest
BEIJING: Hundreds of Tibetans gathered in China's southwest to hold a vigil for a young Buddhist monk who set himself on fire, a rights group said Monday, in the latest self-immolation to hit the country.
The 18-year-old monk, identified as Nangdrol,...
Egypt's MB names presidential candidate
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CAIRO: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is to field its deputy chairman Khairat al-Shater as a candidate in the upcoming presidential election, the group's party and supreme guide said on Saturday.
"The Freedom and Justice Party will nominate...
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