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Ooredoo offers free 15GB data scratch cards with selected smartphones 18 Aug 2014 - 01:51 am

DOHA: Ooredoo has today announced a special offer giving the newly launched 15GB Data Scratch Cards for free with the purchase of selected...

Premier appoints official at ministry 18 Aug 2014 - 01:51 am

DOHA: The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday issued a decision, appointing Engineer...

Qatar Charity distributes QR2.5m assistance in Gaza 18 Aug 2014 - 01:49 am

Qatar Charity officials distributing cash to civic employees. DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) has distributed QR2.5m assistance in the Gaza Strip. The money went...

Al Khaliji contributes to Qatar Charity project in Mali 18 Aug 2014 - 01:47 am

Officials at the cheque presentation ceremony. DOHA: Al Khalij Commercial Bank (al khaliji) Q.S.C., provided a cheque for QR102,300 to help build a...

Top Qatar businesses to take part in Milipol 2014 18 Aug 2014 - 01:43 am

Brigadier Nasser bin Fahad Al Thani DOHA: As risks, threats, and issues as well as solutions regarding internal state security have a huge...

Prizes, cars worth QR2.5m at Qatar Summer Festival 18 Aug 2014 - 01:41 am

DOHA: Over QR2.5m will be given away at malls as part of the Qatar Summer Festival 2014 organised by Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA)....

Qataris disappointed over career fair delay 18 Aug 2014 - 01:41 am

DOHA: The unexpected delay in hosting this year’s Qatar Career Fair has created disappointment among Qataris. Some have urged organisers of the annual...

HBKU, partners welcome new students 18 Aug 2014 - 01:40 am

DOHA: Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) is welcoming incoming students of HBKU and partner universities during its 2014 orientation. The event from August...

Months needed to repair facilities in Gaza: UN 18 Aug 2014 - 01:38 am

Palestinians watch through a large Hamas poster at a rally in support of the armed Palestinian factions, in Rafah, yesterday. TEHRAN: United Nations...

Air raids kill 31 jihadists in Syria’s Raqa 18 Aug 2014 - 01:37 am

Smoke rises after what activists say was shelling from forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad in Raqa yesterday. BEIRUT: At least...

Displaced Iraq Yazidis left hungry and desperate 18 Aug 2014 - 01:36 am

A Yazidi girl standing amid second-hand clothing at Silopi refugee camp near Sirnak city, at the Turkish-Iraqi border. DOHUK: Scores of Yazidis, mainly...

Gul ‘frozen out of running’ for PM’s post in Turkey 18 Aug 2014 - 01:34 am

ISTANBUL: Turkey’s outgoing president Abdullah Gul is not being considered as a possible successor to Recep Tayyip Erdogan as prime minister, a senior...

Lashes for Saudi woman who called morality police liars 18 Aug 2014 - 01:34 am

RIYADH: A Saudi Arabian judge has upheld a sentence of a month in prison and 50 lashes for a businesswoman convicted of insulting...

Nigerian who died in UAE ‘may have had Ebola’ 18 Aug 2014 - 01:33 am

DUBAI: A Nigerian woman with cancer who died in the Emirati capital had shown signs “that may be consistent with Ebola”, the Health...

Iran won’t accept nuclear restraints beyond IAEA rules: Rowhani 18 Aug 2014 - 01:33 am

TEHRAN: Iran will reject any restraints on its nuclear operations outside the international rules set by the industry watchdog, President Hassan Rowhani said...

UN condemns fresh clashes in Libyan capital 18 Aug 2014 - 01:33 am

TRIPOLI: The United Nations condemned a new round of fighting between rival militias around Tripoli international airport, saying the clashes were undermining Libya’s...

2 Saudis beheaded for murder charges 18 Aug 2014 - 01:33 am

RIYADH: Two Saudi men were decapitated by sword yesterday for separate murder charges, the interior ministry said. Yussef Al Nafii, executed in the...

Statue of slain PKK commander unveiled 18 Aug 2014 - 01:32 am

ISTANBUL: A statue of a former militant commander of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) who planned the first attacks of its 30-year insurgency...