PTI, JI protest against Altaf Hussain in London PTI, JI protest against Altaf Hussain in London
 LONDON: Hundreds of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Jamat-e-Islami (JI) supporters and workers on Sunday staged a protest demonstration outside British Prime Minster house against Muttahida Qaumi Movment (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain’s telephonic speech in Pakistan. As many as 1500 PTI and JI supports and other demonstrators gathered at 10 Downing Street in London to lodge protest against MQM chief Altaf Hussain. The PTI..
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Chinese PM arrives in India Chinese PM arrives in India
 NEW DELHI: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in India Sunday afternoon on the first stop of his maiden foreign trip, for talks on issues ranging from an unresolved border dispute to a festering trade-imbalance. He will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday and meet other Indian leaders including from the main opposition BJP party, foreign ministry officials said. Sonia Gandhi, chief of India's ruling Congress..
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Chinese premier heads to India to boost ties Chinese premier heads to India to boost ties
 NEW DELHI: Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier headed to India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties. China says Li Keqiang's choice of India for his first trip abroad since taking office in March shows the importance Beijing attaches to improving relations with New Delhi. ‘We think..
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Assad insists he will not quit, car bomb hits DamascusAssad insists he will not quit, car bomb hits Damascus
 DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad insisted he will not resign before the end of his mandate in 2014 as a car bomb exploded in the capital Damascus on Saturday killing at least three people.  "To resign would be to flee," Assad said in an interview with the Argentine newspaper Clarin when asked if he would consider stepping aside as called for by US Secretary of State John Kerry. "I don't know if..
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North Korea fires three short-range missilesNorth Korea fires three short-range missiles
 SEOUL: North Korea on Saturday launched three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, apparently as part of a military drill, South Korea's defence ministry said. US and South Korean forces had been on heightened alert for a medium-range ballistic missile test in recent weeks amid tensions triggered by North Korea's nuclear test in February. "North Korea launched two guided missiles in the morning and another one in..
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Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt gets Ajmal Kasab's cell in jailBollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt gets Ajmal Kasab's cell in jail
 NEW DELHI: Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt, who is in jail for arms possession, is being held in a cell built for militants where he cannot see daylight and wants to be transferred, a report said Saturday. Dutt, 53, surrendered on Thursday to serve out the remaining three-and-a-half years of a five-year term in a case linked to deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings. Dutt's lawyer, Rizwan Merchant, has demanded the transfer of the actor..
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First Saudi woman climbs to top of EverestFirst Saudi woman climbs to top of Everest
 KATMANDU: Mountaineering officials say 64 climbers, including a Saudi Arabian woman, have successfully scaled Mount Everest from Nepal’s side of the mountain. Tilak Padney of Nepal’s Mountaineering Department says 35 foreigners accompanied by 29 Nepalese Sherpa guides reached the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak on Saturday morning after climbing all night from the highest camp on South Col. All were reported to be..
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New case of SARS-like virus in Saudi: ministryNew case of SARS-like virus in Saudi: ministry
 RIYADH: A new case of the deadly coronavirus has been detected in Saudi Arabia where 15 people have already died after contracting it, the health ministry announced on Saturday.   "One new case of novel coronavirus recorded in the Eastern Region" where most of the kingdom's cases have been registered, said the ministry, which this week created a special web page dedicated to the outbreak.   "One case..
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Pakistan adopts Chinese GPS satellite systemPakistan adopts Chinese GPS satellite system
  BEIJING: Pakistan is set to become the fifth Asian country to use China's domestic satellite navigation system which was launched as a rival to the US global positioning system, a report said Saturday. The Beidou, or Compass, system started providing services to civilians in the region in December and is expected to provide global coverage by 2020. It also has military applications. Thailand, China, Laos and Brunei already..
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Strong 6.1 earthquake strikes off Japan coastStrong 6.1 earthquake strikes off Japan coast
TOKYO: A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the northern coast of Japan's main Honshu island on Saturday, seismologists said, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage. The quake hit at 2:48 pm (0548 GMT) in the Pacific some 50 kilometres (31 miles) from Namie town near the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Daiichi plant, the United States Geological Survey said. Japan's meteorological agency..
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Nearly 50 injured as US commuter trains collideNearly 50 injured as US commuter trains collide
FAIRFIELD, Connecticut: Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, injuring about 50 people, authorities said. There were no reports of fatalities. The Metro-North Railroad, a commuter line serving the northern suburbs, referred in a news release to a ``major derailment'' near Fairfield, just outside Bridgeport. It said emergency workers were at the scene of the accident, which..
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Clashes at Cairo demo calling on Morsi to resignClashes at Cairo demo calling on Morsi to resign
CAIRO: Demonstrators calling for Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi to resign and demanding early elections clashed with riot police in Cairo late Friday. Hundreds of people had marched on Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday for the protest, called by a number of opposition groups. The demonstrators, most of them teenagers, threw molotov cocktails at the police who replied with volleys of tear gas cannisters, but there were no reports of..
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