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DOHA: Despite recent rise in gold prices, local jewellers are optimistic sales of the yellow metal would go up as Eid Al Adha...

  DOHA: The demand for tents is growing as the camping season starts from October 18, in less than two weeks. Stores selling tents...

Doha: Al Jazeera Children’s Channel (JCC) will participate at MIPCOM & MIPJunior exhibitions due to be held in Cannes, France, early in the...

by Qassim Rahmatullah Over 40 jeep enthusiasts gathered recently for the first Sandboree, an event organised by Coolwranglers.com to explore the dunes. Fans...

ISTANBUL: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday his country was “not far” from war with Syria following cross-border attacks this week...

ABU DHABI: Police in Bahrain used water cannon and tear gas yesterday to disperse hundreds of protesters after a memorial for a Shia...

DAMASCUS: Syrian warplanes pounded a rebel-held area of Homs yesterday in the heaviest bombardment of the city for months, monitors said, after the...

  CAIRO:  Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi visited the Sinai peninsula yesterday to meet with and reassure Coptic families who fled from the town of...

DUBAI: Iran will defeat a “conspiracy” against its foreign currency and gold markets, an adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday,...

JERUSALEM: Israeli police hurled stun grenades to disperse dozens of protesters who threw stones outside the Al Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest site,...

AMMAN: Thousands of Islamists demonstrated in central Amman to demand reforms yesterday, just hours after King Abdullah II dissolved parliament and called early...

JERUSALEM: A leader of the Muslim community in the Israeli town of Ramle was found dead in a mosque yesterday under suspicious circumstances,...

By Gary Younge The appeal of any presidential candidate, argued Richard Nixon’s speechwriter, Raymond Price, is based on a “gut reaction, unarticulated, non-analytical,...

Cigarette packs carrying graphic images about the dangers of smoking seen at a shop in Doha yesterday. The GCC authorities have given three...

Sailship Estelle, the latest ship to try to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza as part of the “Freedom Flotilla” movement, arrives in the...

By Fazeena Saleem  DOHA: Several nurseries in the city and its outskirts say they have a long waiting list of children seeking admission,...

DOHA: There is a vast gap between the national average monthly salary of QR7, 401 ($2,027) and the pay packet of a working...

DOHA: Bigger construction companies should depute nursing staff at worksites even when they have provided health insurance to their workers, says the Ministry...