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QIIB conducts fire drill 24 Aug 2014 - 01:53 am

QIIB staff gather at an assembly point during a fire drill at the bank’s main branch. DOHA: The International Islamic (QIIB) carried out...

Lenovo enters smartphone market 24 Aug 2014 - 01:52 am

DOHA: Lenovo has announced the launch of its smartphone portfolio for the first time in Qatar, carefully designed to fit every style, personality...

Remittances expected to increase during festivals 24 Aug 2014 - 01:52 am

DOHA: Remittances from Qatar to South Asian countries are expected to rise by up to 20 percent during major festivals this year. There...

Qatar opens embassy in Somalia 24 Aug 2014 - 01:51 am

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud met the chargé d’affaires of Qatar’s Embassy in Mogadishu, Hassan bin Hamza Assad Mohammed, after the opening of...

QRC refurnishes Al Wafaa hospital in Gaza 24 Aug 2014 - 01:50 am

Staff attending to a patient at the new premises of Al Wafaa Hospital in Gaza. DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) has refurnished Al...

HMC’s trauma centre gets $1.7m in grants 24 Aug 2014 - 01:49 am

Doha: The Trauma Surgery Section at Hamad General Hospital’s Department of Surgery was recently awarded two National Priorities Research Program (NPRP) grants worth...

Independent schools told to get ready for reopening 24 Aug 2014 - 01:48 am

DOHA: The teaching staff and administrative staff of Independent schools will report for their duties on August 31 as the schools prepare to...

Qatar condemns Iraq attack 24 Aug 2014 - 01:47 am

DOHA: Qatar has strongly condemned and denounced the attack on worshipers inside a mosque in Iraq’s Diyala province that left at least 70...

Qatar Charity holds youth camp in Turkey 24 Aug 2014 - 01:46 am

DOHA: Qatar Charity is organizing activities and events for the fifth youth camp in Turkey. The ‘Your life is different’ camp comes within...

Bombings kill 35 across Iraq 24 Aug 2014 - 01:30 am

BAGHDAD/ARBIL: Bombings across Iraq killed at least 35 people in attacks that appeared to be revenge for an assault on a Sunni mosque...

Hamas backs plan to join ICC 24 Aug 2014 - 01:29 am

Palestinian men look on as a bomb from an Israeli air strike hits a house in Gaza City yesterday. GAZA: Hamas leaders said...

Shias protest ‘naturalisation’ in Bahrain 24 Aug 2014 - 01:29 am

Women take part in an anti-government protest against the manipulation of demography in Bahrain, in the village of Jidhafs, west of Manama, yesterday....

Libya Islamist militias ‘seize Tripoli airport’ 24 Aug 2014 - 01:28 am

TRIPOLI: Islamist fighters in the Fajr Libya (Libyan Dawn) coalition said yesterday that they have captured Tripoli’s battered international airport after many days...

UN warns of ‘massacre’ in besieged town 24 Aug 2014 - 01:27 am

BAGHDAD: The United Nations warned yesterday that Shia Turkmen residents of an Iraqi town besieged by jihadists since June risk “massacre” if urgent...

Houthi rebels weigh draft deal on new govt 24 Aug 2014 - 01:27 am

SANA’A: Yemen’s government put a draft proposal to rebels on forming a technocrat government yesterday, a spokesman said, as fears mount that a...

Spokesman of Mursi faces trial 24 Aug 2014 - 01:27 am

CAIRO: The former spokesman for Egypt’s deposed Islamist president Mohamed Mursi faces trial for allegedly helping an ex-premier try to flee to Sudan,...

War: More than 360 factories destroyed in Gaza 24 Aug 2014 - 01:26 am

GAZA STRIP: Gaza’s economy will take years to recover from the devastating impact of the war, in which more than 360 factories have...

Iran refuses IAEA inspectors access to Parchin base 24 Aug 2014 - 01:26 am

TEHRAN: Iran will not give UN nuclear inspectors access to a military base outside Tehran that they have been seeking to visit since...