January 23, 2015 - Page 13

PRO-RUSSIAN rebels cemented their hold Friday on a long-disputed airport ceded by Ukrainian troops during an upsurge in clashes that killed nearly 50 people and punctured Europe’s latest push for peace in

TAIWANESE prosecutors on Friday indicted convicted former president Chen Shui-bian on an additional charge of money laundering, less than three weeks after he was freed from jail on a medical parole. Chen,

THE United States has accepted that the former Guantanamo inmate, Australian citizen David Hicks, is innocent, his lawyer says. Lawyer Stephen Kenny told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that he expected Hicks’s

DOCTORS should be prevented from performing plastic surgery outside their speciality, according to the Royal College of Surgeons. It told the BBC the current rules allowed “GPs to do nose jobs” and

FORMER Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra will face a criminal charge over a controversial rice subsidy scheme, the attorney general’s office says. The news came as the legislature prepared to vote on whether

SAUDI King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz has died in hospital, royal officials have announced. A statement early on Friday said his half brother, Salman, had become king. Before the announcement, Saudi television cut