Southeast Asia
Times of India - BANGKOK: Thai police on Friday said they were searching for two more suspects, including an explosives expert, as the criminal inquiry into the suspected Iranian plot targeting Israelis overseas with magnetized bombs expanded. |
Inquirer.net - By Jerome Aning Chief Justice Renato Corona on Friday issued a stinging statement in response to President Benigno Aquino III's recent broadsides, saying the latter should not meddle in the Senate impeachment trial and scolding him for supposedly ... |
New Straits Times - However, Asli chief executive officer and director Datuk Dr Michael Yeoh said this was subject to the willingness of both parties. |
Malaysia Star - By RAHIMY RAHIM KUALA LUMPUR: PAS Youth says there is no rift between the party and PKR over Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's alleged statement supporting action to safeguard Israel. |
New Straits Times - KUALA LUMPUR: DAP election publicity chief Hew Kuan Yau yesterday apologised to reporters for referring to them as “prostitutes”. |
Oman Daily Observer - By Cat Barton - A VIETNAMESE fish farmer who used a shotgun and landmines to resist forced eviction has become an instant symbol of soaring public discontent over land rights in the communist nation. |
Bernama - SINGAPORE, Feb 17 (Bernama) -- The Sultan of Johor, Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar, visited the Singapore Airshow 2012 this morning, at the invitation of Singapore Defence Minister Dr Ng Eng Hen. |
Journal Online - SENATOR Manuel Villar Jr. yesterday reiterated the need to create a "separate" department for migrant Filipinos to adequately address their needs, especially during natural tragedies and political upheavals in their host countries. |
Bangkok Post - The Pheu Thai-led government's policies on security and foreign affairs are failures, Democrat Party spokesman Chavanond Intarakomalyasut said Friday. |
Bernama - KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 17 (Bernama) -- Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has stressed that the distribution of the 1Malaysia People's Aid (BR1M) was not based on 'political factor', as alleged by the opposition. |
Ninemsn - Perth's Curtin University has sparked online protests over its decision to award the wife of Malaysia's prime minister an honorary doctorate, with some students reportedly burning their degrees. |
Gulf Today - By Manolo B. Jara MANILA: The Aquino administration has agreed to the proposal for autonomy of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) through a parliamentary form of government similar to that of Malaysia, according to the front's chief negotiator. |
Malaysia Kini - YOURSAY 'The problem with our state muftis is their very superficial understanding and interpretation of Islam.' Komathi Doraisamy: Goodness gracious - what kind of religious advisors would PM Najib Razak need if he is faulted for he and his wife being ... |
Malaysia Star - KUALA LUMPUR: The Election Commission (EC) will not carry out a redelineation of electoral boundaries until after the 13th general election, said Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof. |
Jakarta Post - The Islam Defenders Front (FPI), a hardliner group that has been under the spotlight recently as its violent image has begun to receive pushback from other community groups, has committed to changing its ways. |
Jakarta Post - An expert on Indonesian politics from Australia's Deakin University, Damien Kingsbury, recently published Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Indonesia's Arduous Path of Reform, which highlights the need for Indonesia to press ahead with reform in order ... |
New Straits Times - By ADIB POVERA The suspect who ran amok and brutally attacked a family with a parang being given first aid after he was overpowered by firemen and neighbours. |
World
Sky News - A Moroccan man has been arrested near the US Capitol after he allegedly planned to detonate what he thought was a suicide vest given to him in an undercover FBI sting operation. |
New York Times - Energized by an overwhelming vote of support at the United Nations General Assembly, backers of an Arab League peace plan for Syria said Friday that they were seeking new ways to aid opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and to ensure that an ... |
Times of India - BANGKOK: Thai police on Friday said they were searching for two more suspects, including an explosives expert, as the criminal inquiry into the suspected Iranian plot targeting Israelis overseas with magnetized bombs expanded. |
DAWN.com - ALL the familiar noises are emerging from the Pak-Afghan talks in Islamabad. President Karzai termed Afghanistan and Pakistan “twin brothers” who should be working together towards stability in both countries. |
Times of India - PARIS: French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron put recent disputes behind them today to unveil a nuclear power deal and renew their own sometimes shaky political alliance. |
New Zealand Herald - Relatives prepare graves for their family members who died in a prison fire, in Comayagua, Honduras. Photo / AP The inferno that killed 356 inmates at Honduras' Comayagua prison will almost certainly be followed by disasters in other jails in Central ... |
Jerusalem Post - By JPOST.COM STAFF 02/18/2012 02:23 British daily The Guardian reported on Friday that officials in key parts of the Obama administration are becoming increasingly convinced that sanctions cannot succeed in deterring Iran's nuclear aspirations and that ... |
Detroit Free Press - This February 16 courtroom sketch shows US District Judge Nancy Edmonds sentencing Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the man who tried blowing up a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day 2009, to life in prison. |
Reuters - By Tim Kenneally LOS ANGELES, Feb 17 (TheWrap.com) - Silent film star Charlie Chaplin was the target of a spying investigation conducted by British intelligence agency MI5, following a request from America's Federal Bureau of Investigation, ... |
Irish Times - GERMAN CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel has vowed to find a consensus German head of state to limit the political fallout from losing her second president in as many years yesterday. |
BBC News - The governor of the US state of New Jersey has vetoed a bill allowing same-sex marriage just a day after it was passed by the state Assembly. |
New York Times - ROME - Italian prosecutors filed an appeal to the country's highest court on Tuesday seeking a new trial for Amanda Knox of Seattle and her onetime boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, in the fatal stabbing of a British student in Perugia, Italy. |
Herald Sun - UNDER a shower of confetti and pulsating samba beats, legendary King Momo on Friday officially launched Rio's famed Carnival, a dazzling extravaganza broadcast to a worldwide television audience. |
Reuters UK - * Delegation signs record-large US soy purchase agreement * Sales of 2.92 mln tonnes confirmed after signings in Iowa * Sale comes while Chinese vice president tours US (Adds weekly purchase agreement total, details, updates futures price) By Karl ... |
Stuff.co.nz - The playboy eldest son of the late North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il is so broke he has been kicked out of a five-star hotel in the Chinese gambling territory of Macau. |
Stuff.co.nz - Flags flew on Martyrs Square in Tripoli and crowds across Libya gave voice on Friday to joy at being free of Muammar Gaddafi, as the anniversary of their revolt offered brief respite from fears that it has brought them only chaotic paralysis. |
Sydney Morning Herald - News Corp chief executive Rupert Murdoch has warned staff at his scandal-hit British tabloid The Sun that he won't protect reporters found to have broken the law, but pledged unstinting support to the title he claimed is among his proudest achievements ... |
USA TODAY - WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States and European Union on Friday expressed cautious optimism that Iran is serious about returning to talks with world powers over its nuclear program. |
Irish Times - VIENNA/AMSTERDAM - Dutch prince Johan Friso was in critical condition in hospital after he was buried in an avalanche while skiing off-piste in the Austrian Alps yesterday, authorities said. |
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