Cairo: Egypt detains Brotherhood leader
Cairo: Egyptian authorities on Wednesday detained senior Muslim Brotherhood figure Essam al-Erian, one of the last few leaders of the Islamist movement to have escaped a security crackdown, the Interior Ministry informed.
Mush cleared in death of lal Masjid cleric
Islamabad: Pakistani police have cleared former military ruler Pervez Musharraf of any direct involvement in the death of a cleric of the radical lal Masjid during a 2007 military operation, according to a media report on Wednesday.
syria: 500 civilians evacuated from besieged town
Beirut: Some 500 women, children and elderly civilians trapped in the besieged town of Moadamiyet al-Sham, southwest of Damascus, have been evacuated, activists said. Supervised by the Red Crescent, the civilians were escorted from the Syrian rebel town on Tuesday, in coordination with the Damascus regime.
Indian HC’s Attackers will be nabbed: Waheed
Male: Maldivian President Mohammed Waheed Hassan directed the police to make all efforts to nab the culprits responsible for the attack on the car of the Indian High Commissioner, assuring that everything will be taken care of.
5 held for Tiananmen Square terror attack
Beijing: Chinese police on Wednesday arrested five people for involvement in a suicide attack at the iconic Tiananmen Square here that was carried out by an Islamist militant along with his wife and mother, the first major terror incident in Beijing.
Bangladesh postpones verdict on 846 soldiers
Dhaka: The long-awaited verdict in Bangladesh’s biggest ever criminal case in which about 850 soldiers are accused of killing 74 people during a bloody 2009 mutiny is postponed till November 5. “The date for delivering the verdict in the BDR mutiny carnage case has been shifted from Wednesday to November 5,” Sessions Judge said.
Russia warns of ‘huge threat' if Syria talks fail
Athens: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei lavrov on Wednesday blasted critics of a US-Russia initiative for a peace conference on Syria, warning that toppling the Assad regime militarily posed a "huge threat" to the area.
Afghan peace team to visit Taliban chief
Kabul: Afghan negotiators seeking peace with the Taliban will soon travel to Pakistan for their first meeting with key militant commander Mullah Baradar, officials informed.
4 French captives in Niger free after 3 years
Paris: Four Frenchmen taken hostage by Al-Qaeda extremists in Niger have been released after three years of captivity and a French-led military intervention in the region that weakened the Islamic radicals.
1900-year-old sculpture unearthed in UK
london: A 1,900-year-old Roman sculpture of an eagle firmly grasping a writhing serpent in its beak has been unearthed from a building site. Described by experts as “amongst the very best statues surviving from Roman Britain”, the sculpture dates to the 1st or 2nd century AD.