AFP, NAIROBI: Shebab militants killed at least 14 workers in northern Kenya yesterday, officials said, the latest in a wave of attacks in the east African nation by the Somali-led Islamists. The attack occurred just outside the town of Mandera in Kenya's far northeastern region, which borders Ethiopia…

AFP, TOKYO: The world's oldest man, Sakari Momoi, has died in Japan at the ripe old age of 112, an official said yesterday. Momoi, born months before the Wright brothers made their first successful flight, passed away late Sunday, said the official at Saitama City, north of Tokyo, where he had lived…

AFP, VIENNA: Global powers seeking to hammer home a deal to curtail Iran's suspect nuclear programme missed another deadline yesterday, with all sides vowing to now keep working until the end of the week. We are continuing to negotiate for the next couple of days, EU foreign policy chief Federica…

BBC, The Hague: A United Nations tribunal yesterday  began deliberations on whether it can hear a legal challenge over territorial claims in the South China Sea. In 2013, the Philippines asked the Permanent Court of Arbitration to declare invalid most of China's maritime claims in the disputed…

AFP, RIYADH: Three Saudi brothers have been arrested in connection with the bombing of a Kuwaiti mosque that killed 26 people, Riyadh said yesterday after a shootout with one of the suspects. The Islamic State jihadist group claimed the June 26 suicide bombing of the Shiite mosque in Kuwait City, which…

AFP, LONDON: Britain on Tuesday commemorated the 10th anniversary of the London suicide bombings that claimed 52 lives, starting with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Hyde Park memorial in honour of the victims. Prime Minister David Cameron laid a floral tribute in the park at 8:50 am (0750 GMT), the…

AFP, COLOMBO: Sri Lankan police yesterday made the first ever arrest of a Supreme Court judge who was detained in connection with an alleged sexual assault, an official said. Sarath de Abrew was arrested following investigations into a complaint that he tried to force a 39-year-old woman to have sex…

 AFP, KABUL: Two suicide attacks in Kabul yesterday targeting first NATO then the Afghan spy agency left one person dead and five wounded, officials said, as the Taliban step up their annual summer offensive. In the first incident, a Taliban suicide car bomber targeting a NATO vehicle rocked the…

Migrant dies in Channel Tunnel AFP, CALAIS: A man was found dead yesterday in the Channel Tunnel, authorities in northern France said, in yet another example of the lengths taken by migrants desperate to reach Britain. Vehicle shuttle services and Eurostar passenger trains were delayed as one of the…