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QRC delegation arrives in flood-hit Jammu & Kashmir 30 Sep 2014 - 03:15 am

DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) has sent its officials including two Qatari women to India to assess the humanitarian conditions and urgent needs...

Steel flyover near Abu Hamour opens to traffic today 30 Sep 2014 - 03:05 am

DOHA: A temporary steel flyover built over Khamees Al Obaidly Roundabout near the Medical Commission headquarters in Abu Hamour is being opened to...

Airport staff now under QA 30 Sep 2014 - 03:04 am

Doha: Qatar Civil Aviation Authority (QCAA) and Qatar Airways signed here yesterday a memorandum of understanding on absorbing employees working at the Hamad...

Water filter firms mislead customers 30 Sep 2014 - 02:56 am

DOHA: Complaints are rising against some companies selling water filters by giving misleading information about the quality of tap water and bottled water...

ISIS BRITAIN USA COALITION SYRIA IRAQ STAIRS FLAG 30 Sep 2014 - 01:25 am

Group: ViewsMideast Credit: STAVRO Source: Al Balad - Beirut, Lebanon Keywords: COLOR ISIS BRITAIN USA COALITION SYRIA IRAQ STAIRS FLAG 092614 Provider: CartoonArts...

Spain court stalls Catalonia separation vote 30 Sep 2014 - 01:16 am

Pro-independence Catalans hold letters forming the word “Independence” on Sant Jaume square. BARCELONA: Spain’s Constitutional Court yesterday suspended an independence referendum called by...

Lech Walesa Award 30 Sep 2014 - 01:14 am

Euromaidan representatives Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko (right), Ukrainian Youth and Sports Minister Dmytro Bulatov (second left) and journalist and Head of the Ukrainian...

Tories promise further squeeze on welfare 30 Sep 2014 - 01:11 am

Mayor of London Boris Johnson (left) arrives at the Hyatt Hotel on day two of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham in central...

Pedestrian woes 30 Sep 2014 - 01:09 am

Pedestrians cross the street at a busy intersection on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City yesterday. Three pedestrians have been...

Britons sign away eldest child for free wifi 30 Sep 2014 - 01:07 am

LONDON: Several Britons agreed to give up their eldest child in return for the use of free wifi, in an experiment to highlight...

Colombia rebels apologise for killing two oil workers 30 Sep 2014 - 01:07 am

BOGOTA: Colombia’s second largest guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), apologised yesterday for killing two workers sent to repair an oil pipeline...

Tabloid sting is first test for Britain’s new regulator 30 Sep 2014 - 01:06 am

LONDON: Britain’s new press regulator was asked yesterday to consider whether a tabloid sting operation that prompted a junior minister to resign broke...

Security review ordered after Chicago air traffic centre fire 30 Sep 2014 - 01:06 am

WASHINGTON: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced yesterday a nationwide security review, three days after a fire at a key Chicago air traffic...

Back to school in Ukraine amid rubble of war 30 Sep 2014 - 12:18 am

DONETSK: Students returning for the new school year in eastern Ukraine yesterday will get real-life conflict lessons as they take their seats in...

Germany probes abuses by security guards at refugee centres 30 Sep 2014 - 12:18 am

BERLIN: German police yesterday started an investigation into six private security guards at a refugee centre accused of assaulting and humiliating asylum seekers...

Over 4,000 migrants died this year: IOM 30 Sep 2014 - 12:18 am

GENEVA: A record 4,077 migrants have died already this year crossing deserts and seas worldwide, three-quarters of them in perilous journeys across the...

Rains make it harder to deliver Ebola supplies 30 Sep 2014 - 12:18 am

WASHINGTON: The rainy season in West Africa is compounding difficulties in getting supplies delivered and new treatment centres built as donors rush to...

Vaclav Havel award for Azeri activist 30 Sep 2014 - 12:17 am

STRASBOURG: Anar Mammadli, an Azeri activist jailed after highlighting fraud during President Ilham Aliyev’s 2013 re-election, was awarded the Vaclav Havel award yesterday....