S Korea wins landmark Gulf nuclear power deal

ABU DHABI/SEOUL: A South Korean group won a landmark deal to build and operate four nuclear reactors for the United Arab Emirates, beating more favour

Seoul, Ankara in talks on nuclear power reactors

SEOUL: South Korea’s Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO) said on Sunday it was in talks with Turkey to export two nuclear power reactors to Black Sea ar

Relocating US base unreasonable, says Hatoyama

TOKYO: Relocating a contentious US airbase from southern Japan to Guam is “unreasonable” from the standpoint of national security, Prime Minister Yuki

US troops death toll on rise in Afghanistan

KABUL: A bomb attack killed a US service member in Afghanistan, Nato said on Sunday, doubling the number of American soldiers killed in the country th

‘Nigerian bomber devout, broke contact with family’

KANO, Nigeria: A Nigerian charged with trying to blow up a US airliner was a devout Muslim who had broken contact with his family several weeks ago, r

Family of five hacked to death in China

BEIJING: Police in southwest China have arrested a man suspected of hacking a father and his four children to death, the latest in a string of grisly

More bodies retrieved from Indian bridge debris

KOTA, India: Rescuers recovered more bodies on Sunday from the debris of a partially constructed bridge which collapsed into a river in western India,

Erdogan denies tensions with army

ANKARA: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan denied tension between his government and the military as state prosecutors investigating an alleged ass

Apathy runs high during Uzbek election

TASHKENT: Uzbekistan held a stage-managed parliamentary election on Sunday, drawing little Western criticism due to its important role in US-led effor

Croatia vote may steer it into the European Union

ZAGREB: Croatia voted on Sunday to elect a president to steer the Balkans country into the European Union, amid a deepening economic crisis and concer

Japanese PM arrives in India

MUMBAI: Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama arrived in India on Sunday on a three-day visit aimed at strengthening economic and security cooperatio

Lopez seeks to revive anti-Chavez movement

VALENCIA, Venezuela: They range from wealthy businessmen to boisterous students and poor single mothers, jammed together 10,000 strong in a stadium, c