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9 operators allowed to take 1,200 Haj pilgrims from Qatar 06 Sep 2014 - 02:11 am

DOHA: Only nine of the 30 licensed Haj operators (who take pilgrims for Haj to Saudi Arabia) are in business this year as...

Festival fun 06 Sep 2014 - 02:00 am

Hundreds of visitors are thronging the ‘Entertainment City’ at the Doha Exhibition Centre daily to take part in Qatar’s first Summer Festival. The...

LEBANON TREE HELMET PLANT 06 Sep 2014 - 01:56 am

Group: ViewsMideast Credit: BLEIBEL Source: Daily Star - Beirut, Lebanon Keywords: COLOR LEBANON TREE HELMET PLANT 090514 Provider: CartoonArts International / The New...

Israel issues tenders for 283 homes in West Bank 06 Sep 2014 - 01:52 am

Palestinians perform Friday prayers in the remains of a mosque, which witnesses said was hit by an Israeli air strike during a seven-week...

Protest to free jailed Aljazeera scribes 06 Sep 2014 - 01:50 am

Geneva Press Club Executive Director Guy Mettan (left), Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), Switzerland, Director Christiane Dubois (second left); and Aljazeera Media Network Director-General...

Rival rallies in Sana’a as clashes rock Yemen 06 Sep 2014 - 01:49 am

Followers of the Shia Houthi group perform the Friday prayers during an anti-government rally in Sana’a. SANA’A: Supporters of the Yemeni government and...

Iran nuclear inquiry stalls: IAEA 06 Sep 2014 - 01:49 am

VIENNA: Iran has failed to address concerns about suspected atomic bomb research by an agreed deadline, the UN nuclear watchdog said yesterday, a...

UN criticises Bahrain over arrest of rights activist 06 Sep 2014 - 01:48 am

GENEVA: The UN called yesterday for Bahrain to release a prominent human rights activist and expressed concern about “ongoing violations” of freedom of...

Pentagon confirms death of Al Shabab leader Godane in Somalia strike 06 Sep 2014 - 01:48 am

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon confirmed yesterday that Ahmed Abdi Godane, a leader of the al Shabab Islamist group, was killed in a US airstrike...

Libya fighters committing grave violations: Report 06 Sep 2014 - 01:48 am

TRIPOLI: Grave human rights violations have been committed during clashes in the Libyan cities of Tripoli and Benghazi, with disastrous consequences for civilians,...

Race to shelter refugees in Iraq before winter 06 Sep 2014 - 01:48 am

GENEVA: Hundreds of thousands of people who have fled to northern Iraq to escape jihadist fighters are in desperate need of housing, the...

IS ‘guiding’ Egyptian militants 06 Sep 2014 - 01:46 am

CAIRO: Islamic State, fighting to redraw the map of the Middle East, has been coaching Egypt’s most dangerous militant group, complicating efforts to...

Lebanese hostages threatened 06 Sep 2014 - 01:46 am

BEIRUT: Al Qaeda’s Syria franchise yesterday released a video showing nine Lebanese army and police hostages it said could pay the price for...

Blasphemy charge against Kuwaiti blogger slammed 06 Sep 2014 - 01:46 am

KUWAIT CITY: Press rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders yesterday slammed last week’s arrest of a Kuwaiti blogger who has been charged with blasphemy...

Turkish oppn keeps leader despite poll defeat 06 Sep 2014 - 01:45 am

ANKARA: The leader of Turkey’s main opposition party survived a challenge to his leadership yesterday, despite the party’s failure to defeat Recep Tayyip...

Truce takes hold in Ukraine 06 Sep 2014 - 01:45 am

Ukrainian Army soldiers sit on tanks in the eastern city of Mariupol yesterday. MINSK: Ukraine and pro-Kremlin rebels signed up to a truce...

Ebola vaccine by November: WHO 06 Sep 2014 - 01:44 am

A statue representing a child receiving an injection of vaccine is seen at the WHO headquarters in Geneva yesterday. GENEVA: The death toll...

Nato to boost defences in eastern Europe 06 Sep 2014 - 01:43 am

A demonstration of a Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey American multi-mission, military, tiltrotor aircraft takes place on the second day of the Nato 2014...