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Souq Waqif Eid festival tents ready to receive visitors 28 Jul 2014 - 03:07 am

DOHA: Tents for the Souq Waqif Eid Al Fitr Festival will welcome hundreds of people to watch shows and take part in fun...

Mowasalat raises fleet to meet Eid demand 28 Jul 2014 - 03:06 am

DOHA: As part of preparations for Eid Al Fitr celebrations, public transport service provider, Mowasalat, has added more taxis and buses to its...

Fighting abates in Gaza 28 Jul 2014 - 03:04 am

Palestinian medics help evacuate a survivor after an Israeli air strike on his home in Gaza City yesterday. GAZA/JERUSALEM: Fighting subsided in Gaza...

Documenting death: The man who counts the bodies in Gaza 28 Jul 2014 - 03:03 am

GAZA CITY: Inside Ashraf Al Qudra’s cramped office in Shifa hospital, the phone never stops ringing, with news flooding in of the latest...

We can’t coexist with occupiers: Meshaal 28 Jul 2014 - 03:03 am

WASHINGTON: Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal demanded Israel lift its blockade of Gaza and warned that Palestinians cannot coexist with their neighbours while their...

Palestinians in hospital after alleged mob beating 28 Jul 2014 - 03:02 am

JERUSALEM: One of two Palestinians who claimed to have been savagely beaten by a Jewish mob in east Jerusalem was still in intensive...

At least eight die in Yemen attacks 28 Jul 2014 - 03:02 am

Men look at clothes displayed in a shop ahead of Eid Al Fitr in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, yesterday. ADEN: Militant attacks on...

Iraqi Shia militiamen display jihadists’ bodies 28 Jul 2014 - 03:01 am

BAQUBA: Shia militiamen in Iraq’s city of Baquba dragged the bodies of Islamic State jihadist fighters through the streets yesterday and hung them...

Istanbul bus inferno kills four 28 Jul 2014 - 03:01 am

ISTANBUL: Four people were killed yesterday and at least 10 were injured when a public bus in Istanbul burst into flames after crashing...

Foreigners told to quit Libya as clashes rage 28 Jul 2014 - 02:59 am

A man lies in a bed at Al Sabah Hospital in Tripoli yesterday after he was injured in shelling in the town of...

Jihadists make fresh advance in Syria; govt retakes gas field 28 Jul 2014 - 02:58 am

BEIRUT: Islamic State jihadists have seized an army position in the Syrian city of Hasakeh, a monitoring group said yesterday. On another front...

No armed mission to crash site: Dutch PM 28 Jul 2014 - 02:58 am

Netherlands’ Prime Minister Mark Rutte (centre) and Minister of Defence Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert addressing a press conference with Netherlands’ Minister of Safety and Justice...

Investigators scour through debris in Mali 28 Jul 2014 - 02:57 am

Relatives of Lebanese passengers killed in the crash of the Air Algerie flight AH 5017 wait at the military base of the Ouagadougou...

Startup offers elderly an Internet key to family links 28 Jul 2014 - 02:56 am

BUCHAREST: Two grandmothers mystified by computer tablets have inspired a French-Romanian startup to develop an application and service to help the elderly stay...

Five dead in bombing of church in Nigeria 28 Jul 2014 - 02:56 am

KANO, Nigeria: Nigeria’s northern city of Kano on Sunday cancelled celebrations to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan after...

Duchovny sparks controversy with Russian ad 28 Jul 2014 - 02:55 am

MOSCOW: US actor David Duchovny has stirred up a storm of debate in Russia by appearing in an ultra-patriotic beer ad in which...

US doctor latest Ebola victim 28 Jul 2014 - 02:55 am

FREETOWN: Alarm soared in west Africa yesterday over the deadliest ever Ebola virus outbreak, with an American doctor contracting the disease in Liberia...

North Korea defies UN censure 28 Jul 2014 - 02:55 am

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guides a rocket firing drill of the strategic force of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) in this...