DOHA: Authorities have intensified monitoring of overloaded passenger vehicles crossing the Abu Samra border post in a bid to reduce accidents. The Ministry...
DOHA: Authorities have intensified monitoring of overloaded passenger vehicles crossing the Abu Samra border post in a bid to reduce accidents. The Ministry...
DOHA: A total of 7,442 Qatari voters have registered for the forthcoming Central Municipal Council (CMC) elections until Wednesday, a local Arabic daily...
Doha: Qatar has strongly condemned the French Charlie Hebdo newspaper and some European newspapers republishing offending cartoons about the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be...
A general view of the Arab League Foreign Ministers emergency meeting at the League’s headquarters in Cairo yesterday. The ministers endorsed a Palestinian...
Protesters chant slogans in front of Istanbul courthouse against the publication by Turkish daily newspaper Cumhuriyet containing cartoons and articles translated from the...
GENEVA: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Saudi Arabia yesterday to stop the serial flogging of an atheist and...
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (right) welcomes his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif in Berlin yesterday. Berlin/sofia: Germany’s foreign minister said yesterday no...
Beirut: Hezbollah chief Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah has threatened to retaliate against Israel for repeated strikes on Syria, in an television interview broadcast last...
Istanbul: Turkey has suspended five prosecutors working on a contentious investigation into an alleged delivery of arms for Syrian rebels that was intercepted...
Geneva: UN-brokered talks on ending armed chaos in Libya continued for a second day yesterday in Geneva after a promising start despite being...
Cairo: Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said he had a “fruitful” meeting with his Egyptian counterpart yesterday to seek the release of a...
United Nations: The United Nations yesterday called on Israel to unlock millions of dollars in taxes owed to the Palestinian Authority that were...
Dubai: The attack on Charlie Hebdo has thrust Al Qaeda back in the spotlight as the jihadist network proves it can still attack...
Kuwait City: Dozens of Kuwaiti Islamists yesterday rallied outside the French embassy in a protest against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for publishing...
Elsa Wolinski (centre), daughter of killed Charlie Hebdo caricaturist Georges Wolinski, arrives for funeral service at the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, France,...
US President Barack Obama signs a presidential memorandum on paid leave for federal employees in the Oval Office of the White House in...
Bangui: Nearly 100 people were yesterday feared dead in the Central African Republic after a boat caught fire and sank in a river...
Maiduguri, Nigeria: Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday met survivors of what is thought to be Boko Haram’s worst attack in its six-year insurgency,...