CHAIRMAN: DR. KHALID BIN THANI AL THANI
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: PROF. KHALID MUBARAK AL-SHAFI

World / Asia

Indian airlines ban comedian for midair rant 30 Jan 2020 - 11:50 am
Peninsula
India reports its first case of coronavirus 30 Jan 2020 - 11:42 am
Medical staff with protective clothing are seen inside a ward specialised in receiving any person who may have been infected with coronavirus, at the Rajiv Ghandhi Government General hospital in Chennai, India, January 29, 2020. REUTERS/P. Ravikumar
UK delays evacuation flight from coronavirus epicentre in China 30 Jan 2020 - 10:50 am
An aircraft, chartered by the U.S. State Department to evacuate government employees and other Americans from the novel coronavirus threat in the Chinese city of Wuhan on  January 29, 2020. (REUTERS/Mike Blake)
Japan issues arrest warrants for ex-U.S. soldier, two others for Ghosn escape 30 Jan 2020 - 09:51 am
 FILE PHOTO: Former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn gestures during a news conference at the Lebanese Press Syndicate in Beirut, Lebanon January 8, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo
Rangers sign India's first woman professional footballer 30 Jan 2020 - 09:20 am
In this file photo taken on January 04, 2017 India's Ngangom Bala Devi (R) fights for the ball with Bangladesh players during the final of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) women's football championship at the Kanchanjungha Stadium in Siliguri./
Airlines suspend China flights, cut services on virus fears 29 Jan 2020 - 06:35 pm
Passengers are seen on the screen of a thermal scanner as they arrive at the Tribhuvan International Airport after Nepal confirmed the first case of coronavirus in the country, in Kathmandu on January 29, 2020, following the first SARS-like virus confirme
Long road to freedom: fugitive giraffe legs it in Thailand 29 Jan 2020 - 03:31 pm
File picture used for representation
China women's football team quarantined in Australia over virus fears: reports 29 Jan 2020 - 02:04 pm
file photo
4 Pakistani students in China contract coronavirus 29 Jan 2020 - 01:57 pm
Doctor Zafar Mirza, special assistant to Pakistan Prime Minister on health, briefs media representatives on the novel coronavirus, a virus similar to the SARS pathogen, in Islamabad on January 29, 2020. A virus similar to the SARS pathogen has claimed 106
Indonesia cuts ties with WWF over ethics breach claims 29 Jan 2020 - 01:44 pm
File picture of Indonesian fire. Reuters
Airlines halt, reduce China flights 29 Jan 2020 - 12:55 pm
(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 28, 2010, British Airways planes are grounded at Heathrow Airport, on the second day of a four-day strike. British Airways on January 29, 2020 said it had suspended all its flights to and from China owing to the d
Indian ministries buy more air purifiers as capital battles toxic air 29 Jan 2020 - 10:55 am
FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a mask runs past the India Gate on a smoggy morning in New Delhi, India, October 28, 2019 REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo
FactBox - Countries evacuating nationals from China virus areas 29 Jan 2020 - 10:34 am
China Southern Airlines employees wear a surgical mask as a preventive measure in light of the coronavirus outbreak in China, as they wait for customers behind the counter at Benito Juarez international airport in Mexico City, Mexico January 28, 2020. REU
Australia to quarantine Wuhan evacuees on asylum-seeker island 29 Jan 2020 - 10:07 am
(L-R) The Royal Melbourne Hospital's Dr Julian Druce, Virus Identification Laboratory Head at the Doherty Institute and Dr Mike Catton, Deputy Director of the Doherty Institute address media to announce having successfully grown the Wuhan coronavirus from
Japan evacuation flight from Wuhan lands, 5 reported ill 29 Jan 2020 - 09:30 am
The first charter flight from the Chinese city of Wuhan, which was arranged by Japan's government to evacuate its citizens, lands at Haneda airport in Tokyo on January 29, 2020. A plane carrying Japanese nationals evacuated from Wuhan, the Chinese city at
Papua New Guinea bans travellers from all 'Asian ports' 29 Jan 2020 - 09:05 am
A general view of the Wuhan Medical Treatment Center is seen during a virus outbreak in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on January 24, 2020.
China wants Danish daily to apologize for virus cartoon 28 Jan 2020 - 07:14 pm
Peninsula
U.S. recovers remains from Afghanistan plane crash, verifying identities 28 Jan 2020 - 06:32 pm
The wreckage of a US Bombardier E-11A jet is seen after it crashed in mountainous territory of Deh Yak district in Ghazni Province.   AFP