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Rania Bou Jaoudeh and Walaa Aniba Doha: Audiences in the Arab world witnessed young innovators defend their prototypes to stave off elimination in...

Syrians stand near tents after fleeing from Kobane in a refugee camp in Suruc district, Turkey, yesterday. Aleppo: Islamic State is takings its...

Iraq’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al Jaafari (second left) with Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah (left), Mauritania’s Foreign Minister Ahmed Teguedi...

ISTANBUL: Turkey would not agree to any US arms transfers to Kurdish fighters who are battling Islamic State militants in Syria, President Recep...

  BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al Abadi is to visit Iran today for talks on Baghdad’s battle against the Islamic State group, which...

TEHRAN: Expert-level talks between Iran and world powers aimed at clearing the path toward a nuclear deal will be held on Wednesday and...

CAIRO: A roadside bomb killed seven Egyptian soldiers and wounded four in the restive Sinai Peninsula yesterday, security officials said. The bomb exploded...

TEHRAN: A series of acid attacks on women in the historic Iranian city of Isfahan has raised fears and prompted rumours that the...

A member of the ‘Azov’ Battalion gives a farewell hug to his friends during a ceremony sending soldiers to eastern Ukraine, in Kiev,...

Presidential candidate for the Brazilian Social Democracy Party Aecio Neves (centre) waves a Brazilian national flag during his campaign at Copacabana beach in...

  LONDON: Business investors are increasingly worried about political risks in Britain, including the outcome of a national election in May and a possible...

LONDON: Do you lock them up, or try to rehabilitate them? Britain has taken a hard line on citizens returning from fighting in...

LONDON: Outgoing EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso yesterday warned British Prime Minister David Cameron against trying to rewrite the European Union’s freedom...

Pro-democracy advocates gather for a rally during the Occupy Central movement at Admiralty district of Hong Kong yesterday. HONG KONG: Violent clashes erupted...

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (third right) looks at a model of the new French International School during the groundbreaking ceremony for the...

KATHMANDU: Nepalese teams yesterday rescued 34 more trekkers and guides stranded in the Himalayas since a snowstorm struck five days ago at the...

BANGKOK: Two tourists — believed to be from China — were missing late yesterday after their tour boat crashed into a fishing vessel...

BEIJING: China has sent coastguard vessels to disputed waters in the East China Sea after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe angered Beijing by...