Thai protesters gear up for showdown
Bangkok: Thailand’s authorities warned on Sunday that Opposition efforts to hand power to an unelected regime risked unleashing new violence, as rival protesters prepared for a showdown over the fate of the crippled Government.
S Sudanrivals trade blame over broken truce
Juba: South Sudan’s Government and rebels accused each other on Sunday of breaking a ceasefire just hours after it came into effect, dealing an early blow to hopes for an end to the five-month civil war.
30 hurt in blast in Bosnia night club
Sarajevo: Thirty people were hurt, many of them seriously, when a man threw a grenade in a night club in the northwestern Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa, police said. “Many of them are seriously injured and one person’s life is in danger,” a police official told AFP by phone.
‘At least 36 immigrants die in libya shipwreck’
Tripoli: At least 36 immigrants died and 42 are reported missing after a makeshift boat was wrecked off libya’s coast, a naval spokesman said on Sunday.
Plane with smoke in cockpit returns to lA
los Angels: A United Airlines flight has arrived safely back at los Angeles International Airport after smoke was reported in the cockpit and cabin during a flight to Hawaii.
Bomb kills 12 soldiers, civilian in Yemen
Aden: A suspected Al-Qaeda suicide bomber on Sunday killed 12 soldiers and a civilian in an attack on a military base in southeast Yemen, officials said, as Government forces pursued jihadists in three restive provinces.
Israelrubbishes latest charge of spying on US
Jerusalem: Dismissing claims that Israel’s “aggressive espionage operations” against the US “have gone too far”, a Israeli official has said “someone” was trying to cast aspersions on and compromise cooperation between the allies.
‘Iran won’t accept nuclear apartheid’
Tehran: Iran will not accept “nuclear apartheid” but is willing to offer more transparency over its atomic activities, President Hassan Rouhani said ahead of new talks with world powers.
Wall collapse in China kills 18, injures 3
Beijing: A wall collapse triggered by heavy rains at a recycling plant killed 18 people and injured three others on Sunday in the eastern city of Qingdao, media reported.
Hinduja brothers emerge richest in UK
london: India-born Hinduja brothers, Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja, have emerged as the richest men in Britain with a net wealth of 11.9 billion pounds, according to a report.
Scientists turn sunlight into jet fuel
london: In a world first, scientists claim to have used sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to make ‘green’ jet fuel. A European consortium with the participation of ETH Zurich has experimentally demonstrated the first ever production of jet fuel via a thermochemical process using concentrated solar energy.