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63 violations by outlets detected 15 Oct 2014 - 04:58 am

DOHA: About 63 violations of the consumer protection law were registered by the Ministry of Economy and Commerce during routine inspections of the...

595,600 joined GCC petrochemical industry in 2013 15 Oct 2014 - 04:58 am

DOHA: The petrochemical and chemical industry in the Gulf in 2013 created directly and indirectly over half a million jobs and manufactured products...

HMC to host shisha research conference 15 Oct 2014 - 04:57 am

Doha: Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) will host the second international conference on water-pipe tobacco smoking (shisha) research on October 26-27. It is being...

Vodafone ‘Exclusive Sponsor’ of National Identity seminar 15 Oct 2014 - 04:57 am

DOHA: Vodafone Qatar has been named ‘Exclusive Sponsor’ of Qatar’s first National Identity seminar, taking place on October 20-21. The seminar is organised...

Premier reviews US, Tunisia relations 15 Oct 2014 - 04:56 am

Doha: The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday met David Cohen, US Treasury...

Most Qataris prefer to take up govt jobs, says ministry 15 Oct 2014 - 04:56 am

DOHA: The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has a long list of Qatari job-seekers who want to land government jobs. The list...

Houthis seize strategic port city in Yemen 15 Oct 2014 - 04:55 am

SANA’A: Yemeni Shia rebels seized a strategic port city yesterday to widen their fast-expanding zone of control. The Houthi Shia rebels met little...

Turkey bombs Kurd rebels 15 Oct 2014 - 04:55 am

ISTANBUL/SURUC: War against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq threatened yesterday to unravel the delicate peace in neighbouring Turkey after the Turkish...

American shot dead in Riyadh 15 Oct 2014 - 04:54 am

RIYADH: A former employee of a US defence contractor shot dead one American colleague and wounded another at a petrol station in the...

Australia’s Flanagan wins Man Booker 15 Oct 2014 - 04:50 am

LONDON: Australian author Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North, set during the building of the Thailand-Burma “Death Railway” in World...

Companies line up to be listed on Qatar bourse 15 Oct 2014 - 04:49 am

DOHA: A good number of companies will get listed on Qatar bourse in the coming months. Several companies have expressed their interests in...

Aquatic centre to boost fish stocks planned 15 Oct 2014 - 04:47 am

DOHA: Qatar is setting up a QR230m ($63.16m) aquatic research centre as a first step to increase its fast-depleting surpluses of fish stocks....

Syria conflict 15 Oct 2014 - 04:46 am

A large explosion allegedly hitting a Syrian army military outpost in Maarat Al Numan in Idlib province. The explosion was caused by rebel...

Qataris ‘most stylish’ in region 15 Oct 2014 - 04:45 am

Doha: New data released by Heathrow Airport’s Personal Shopping service reveal that Qataris are the most style-aware nationality in the region and more...

Rising home rents push up cost of living 15 Oct 2014 - 04:43 am

DOHA: The cost of living continues to go up in the country thanks mainly to spiralling house rents. Rents keep jumping unchecked, pushing...

Jazeera scribe gets 15 years in jail 15 Oct 2014 - 04:40 am

DOHA: A criminal court in Cairo yesterday sentenced in absentia Ahmed Mansour, a presenter on Al Jazeera Arabic to 15 years in jail...

Blair may have been terrorist target, court told 15 Oct 2014 - 02:37 am

LONDON: A man charged in Britain with terrorism offences at a trial so sensitive that prosecutors sought to have it heard entirely in...

Frenchman jailed for recruiting jihadists 15 Oct 2014 - 02:36 am

BRUSSELS: A Belgian court sentenced a Frenchman to 18 years in prison yesterday for leading a “terrorist group” that recruited jihadists to fight...