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Mauritanian minister meets Qatari envoy 01 Sep 2014 - 01:54 am

Nouakchott: Mauritanian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in charge of Maghreb and African Affairs and Mauritanians Abroad, Hind bint Ayninah conferred here...

Key bodies to back HSE Forum 01 Sep 2014 - 01:53 am

DOHA: The 10th edition of the ‘Annual HSE Forum in Energy’, which is to be held here from November 3-5, has drawn strong...

Israel to seize 988 acres of West Bank land 01 Sep 2014 - 01:51 am

Palestinians sit outside their house that witnesses said was heavily shelled by Israel during the offensive, in the Shejaia neighbourhood, east of Gaza...

Filipino UN peacekeepers safe; fate of 44 Fijians unknown 01 Sep 2014 - 01:50 am

Irish members of United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) convoy pass by Israeli armoured personnel carriers as they manoeuvre, near the border of...

Impatience in Turkey over Syrian ‘guests’ 01 Sep 2014 - 01:49 am

Saleh Al Baradei, a Lebanese police officer kidnapped along with four soldiers by the Al Nusra Front, the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda,...

Libyan armed faction takes over US embassy annex in Tripoli 01 Sep 2014 - 01:49 am

An exterior view of a building at the US embassy compound that was allegedly stormed by militiamen in Tripoli. WASHINGTON: Members of a...

Israel cuts spending to offset $2.52bn war costs 01 Sep 2014 - 01:48 am

JERUSALEM: Israel has been presented with a hefty bill for 50 days of war in Gaza, as the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, moved...

Bahrain upholds 10-year jail term for journalist 01 Sep 2014 - 01:47 am

DUBAI: A Bahraini appeals court yesterday upheld a controversial 10-year-jail term against a photojournalist convicted over his presence at a 2012 attack on...

11 Yemeni soldiers killed in 3 attacks 01 Sep 2014 - 01:47 am

ADEN: Suspected Al Qaeda militants killed 11 Yemeni soldiers in three separate attacks yesterday, including suicide car bombings, in a second day of...

Air strikes kill 42 children across Syria 01 Sep 2014 - 01:47 am

BEIRUT: At least 42 children have been killed in government air strikes and shelling across Syria in the last 36 hours, the Syrian...

Shabab rebels attack Somalia intelligence HQ 01 Sep 2014 - 01:46 am

MOGADISHU: Somalia’s Shabab rebels carried out a car bomb and gun attack against an intelligence headquarters in central Mogadishu yesterday, leaving at least...

France arrests jihadist minor before departure to Syria 01 Sep 2014 - 01:46 am

PARIS: A 16-year-old girl suspected of trying to reach Syria to join Islamist rebels has been arrested in the southeastern city of Nice,...

Australia to join US in arming Kurds in Iraq 01 Sep 2014 - 01:46 am

SYDNEY: Australia said yesterday that it would help the United States in an international effort to transport weapons to Kurdish forces fighting Islamic...

ISIS CONSOLIDATED HORROR GLOBE WORLD MIDDLE EAST MIDEAST 01 Sep 2014 - 01:45 am

Group: ViewsMideast Credit: BLEIBEL Source: Daily Star - Beirut, Lebanon Keywords: COLOR ISIS CONSOLIDATED HORROR GLOBE WORLD MIDDLE EAST MIDEAST 082714 Provider: CartoonArts...

Putin seeks ‘statehood’ talks on east Ukraine 01 Sep 2014 - 01:41 am

Pro-Russian separatists stand in front of destroyed trains at a railway station in the eastern Ukrainian town of Ilovaysk yesterday. MOSCOW: Russian President...

Child among 3 killed as Paris suburb building collapses in explosion 01 Sep 2014 - 01:40 am

French firefighters search the rubble of a collapsed building in Rosny-Sous-Bois, near Paris, yesterday. BOBIGNY: An eight-year-old child was among three people killed...

Remembering Lady Diana 01 Sep 2014 - 01:39 am

Tributes are pictured outside Kensington Palace marking the 17th anniversary of Britain’s Princess Diana’s death in London yesterday. The Princess of Wales died...

Fresh round of Mali peace talks to begin in Algiers 01 Sep 2014 - 01:39 am

BAMAKO: Malian government negotiators will sit down with separatist militias today, hoping to end the conflicts that continue to rage in the country...