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VCU-Q welcomes 72 full-time students 26 Sep 2012 - 11:22 am

Doha: Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar (VCU-Q) welcomed 72 new full time students to the Education City campus - 62 to the Bachelor...

Qatar Airways Najaf flights from January 26 Sep 2012 - 11:21 am

Doha: Qatar Airways continues its network expansion with the announcement of scheduled flights to Najaf – its third route in the Republic of...

Al Jazeera Children’s Channel invites entries for Quran contest 26 Sep 2012 - 11:21 am

Doha: Young reciters of the Holy Quran all around the world can now submit their entries to the 2013 edition of “Tijan Al...

Shreya Ghoshal show 26 Sep 2012 - 10:52 am

Rami Productions, a leading event management team in the region, in association with Planet Fashion, will organise a mega musical event by renowned...

Taliban dismiss Nato claim of fewer attacks 26 Sep 2012 - 10:50 am

KABUL: The Afghan Taliban yesterday dismissed Nato figures showing a decrease in insurgent attacks, saying the statistics reflect troop withdrawals and a “cowardly”...

Pakistan, US move towards mending damaged ties 26 Sep 2012 - 10:50 am

NEW YORK: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday as the two nations inch towards repairing...

US drones terrorising Pakistan civilians 26 Sep 2012 - 10:50 am

ISLAMABAD: The US campaign of drone strikes in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt is terrorising civilians 24 hours a day and breeding bitter anti-American...

Pakistan loses 37,000 people in war on terror 26 Sep 2012 - 10:50 am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has sacrificed around 32,000 civilians and more than 5,000 army men in the War on Terror (WoT) related suicide attacks and...

Afghanistan hails action over US Marines abuse video 26 Sep 2012 - 10:49 am

KABUL: Afghanistan yesterday welcomed a Pentagon decision to put two US Marines on trial for urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters...

Five Afghans arrested over flogging girl 26 Sep 2012 - 10:49 am

KABUL: Police in Afghanistan have arrested five people over the public flogging of a 16-year-old girl for allegedly having an affair, an official...

Japan, Taiwan vessels clash with water cannons 26 Sep 2012 - 10:48 am

A Japan coastguard vessel (lower) sprays water on Taiwanese fishing boats in the East China Sea near the Senkaku Islands as known in...

Manila assures US of probe into extrajudicial killings 26 Sep 2012 - 10:47 am

MANILA: The Philippines has reassured the United States of its consistent efforts to investigate and prosecute cases of unexplained killings and other human...

Work halted at N Korea missile launch pad 26 Sep 2012 - 10:47 am

SEOUL: New satellite imagery shows North Korea has halted work at a launch pad capable of testing intercontinental missiles, possibly setting the project...

Sri Lanka shuts all camps for displaced 26 Sep 2012 - 10:47 am

COLOMBO: Camps which housed 300,000 displaced people by the end of Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict have now all closed, three years after the...

Search resumes for climbers missing in Nepal avalanche 26 Sep 2012 - 10:47 am

KATHMANDU: A team of high-altitude sherpas resumed a search yesterday for three climbers missing in an avalanche on one of the world’s tallest...

Myanmar’s ruling party poised for new leadership 26 Sep 2012 - 10:46 am

YANGON: Myanmar’s ruling party will elect new leaders next month, its general-secretary said yesterday, amid pressure to remain relevant as it prepares to...

UN chief rejects war threats by states 26 Sep 2012 - 10:45 am

UN leader Ban Ki-moon arrives at the UN headquarters in New York to address the General Assembly yesterday. RIGHT: A protester holds a...

Chavez’s rival gains ground in Venezuela election push 26 Sep 2012 - 10:44 am

LA GUAIRA, Venezuela: The crowds are bigger, his speeches slicker, and Venezuela’s young opposition leader Henrique Capriles is on a roll in a...