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HMC and IHI to co-host Mideast healthcare meet 23 Nov 2014 - 05:08 am

DOHA: The third Middle East Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare to be held in May 2015 will focus on themes centred...

Minister meets US defence official 23 Nov 2014 - 05:07 am

The Minister of State for Defence Affairs, H E Major General Hamad bin Ali Al Attiyah, with the Director of the US Defence...

CMU-Q workshop sheds light on impact of design 23 Nov 2014 - 05:06 am

DOHA: The nature and opportunities of the field of information systems was highlighted to high school students, at an outreach programme by the...

Tour of Hope docks 23 Nov 2014 - 05:05 am

A Kuwaiti ship ‘Tour of Hope’ with 20 people with special needs has anchored at the ‘Porto Rabia’ zone of the Pearl. The...

Jumbo staff celebration 23 Nov 2014 - 05:04 am

Jumbo Retail staff celebrated the conclusion of the Jumbo Big Sale. During the event, Jumbo Qatar CEO C V Rappai thanked customers for...

Coast Guard foils bid to smuggle bustards 23 Nov 2014 - 05:03 am

DOHA: Law-enforcement agencies yesterday foiled a bid by some shady elements to smuggle some 70 bustards into the country. Bustards are known in...

HMC, WCMCQ hold AHS course 23 Nov 2014 - 05:02 am

DOHA: Scientific research methodologies in the clinical and biomedical fields have been highlighted in the latest course jointly organised by Hamad Medical Corporation,...

Greetings sent to Lebanon 23 Nov 2014 - 05:02 am

Doha: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable of greetings to Lebanon’s Prime Minister Tammam Salam on...

HMC observes World Prematurity Day 23 Nov 2014 - 05:01 am

Doha: With preterm birth causing more than one million deaths each year, Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has joined the rest of the world...

UAE leader invited to summit 23 Nov 2014 - 04:59 am

The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has invited the UAE President H H Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan...

Ashghal in community outreach bid 23 Nov 2014 - 04:56 am

DOHA: The Public Works Authority has launched a community engagement programme to interact with residents, business owners and school managements in areas it...

New SEC rules make parents jittery 23 Nov 2014 - 04:55 am

DOHA: New enrolment rules being imposed by the Supreme Education Council (SEC) on private schools have made many students and parents jittery. Parents...

Shebab execute 28 non-Muslims 23 Nov 2014 - 04:52 am

GARISSA: Somalia’s Shebab Islamists yesterday seized a bus in Kenya, executing 28 non-Muslim passengers in revenge for police raids on mosques in the...

Cold night forecast in Al Khor 23 Nov 2014 - 04:46 am

DOHA: The night could be chilly in Al Khor today as the minimum temperature forecast is 16 degrees Celsius. The day will, however,...

Opposition boycott mars Bahrain polls 23 Nov 2014 - 04:44 am

A voter casts his ballot during parliamentary elections at a polling station set up at the Seef Mall shopping centre in Manama yesterday....

GCC ministers to discuss pvt sector jobs for citizens 23 Nov 2014 - 04:43 am

DOHA: Labour ministers from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member-states are meeting in Kuwait today to discuss, among other issues, ways to encourage...

Kiir in Egypt 23 Nov 2014 - 04:07 am

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi (left) and South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir reviewing the guard of honour in Cairo, Egypt, yesterday.

IS militants kill 25 members of Sunni tribe 23 Nov 2014 - 03:48 am

BAGHDAD: Islamic State militants have killed at least 25 members of a Sunni Muslim tribe in a village on the eastern edge of...