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Call for stricter vigil on eateries, beauty parlours 11 Jul 2014 - 06:02 am

DOHA: Some members of the Central Municipal Council (CMC) have called for stricter monitoring of eateries and beauty parlours especially, saying that rising...

Cambodia ceremony 10 Jul 2014 - 10:32 pm

Cambodians offer food to Buddhist monks outside the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh yesterday. Cambodia will hold a three-day ceremony to enshrine the...

Flood, havoc as typhoon hits Japan 10 Jul 2014 - 10:30 pm

Neoguri likely to reach Fukushima nuclear power plant areas; over 190 flights cancelled TOKYO: Typhoon Neoguri slammed into the Japanese mainland yesterday bringing...

Bangladesh bans marriages for Rohingya Muslim refugees 10 Jul 2014 - 10:28 pm

DHAKA: Bangladesh said yesterday it has barred official marriages between its nationals and Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya refugees, whom it claims are attempting to...

S Korea condemns North’s missile tests 10 Jul 2014 - 10:27 pm

SEOUL: South Korea yesterday condemned a series of missile launches by nuclear-armed North Korea as a “serious provocation” that threatened stability on the...

Chinese fish farmer freed after Malaysia kidnapping 10 Jul 2014 - 10:27 pm

KUALA LUMPUR: A Chinese fish farm manager who was kidnapped in May has been released amid a spate of abductions in Malaysia by...

Myanmar jails five reporters for 10 years 10 Jul 2014 - 10:26 pm

YANGON: A Myanmar court yesterday sentenced five journalists to a decade in prison with hard labour over a newspaper report alleging that a...

Philippines arrests 44 from China, Taiwan in Internet fraud 10 Jul 2014 - 10:24 pm

MANILA: Forty-two Taiwanese and two Chinese suspects were arrested in the Philippines over a complex Internet scam targeting compatriots back home, police said....

Widodo warns against vote-tampering 10 Jul 2014 - 10:24 pm

JAKARTA: The man most likely elected Indonesia’s new president warned yesterday against tampering with ballots ahead of a final count of votes later...

Drone kills 6 rebels in military offensive 10 Jul 2014 - 10:21 pm

Army seizes control of 80pc of Miranshah town MIRANSHAH: Missiles from a US drone slammed into a mud house and killed six suspected...

PML-N: Govt, army relations improving 10 Jul 2014 - 10:15 pm

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif held an hour-long one-to-one meeting yesterday, something which, according to...

Afghan raids kill 33 militants 10 Jul 2014 - 10:15 pm

Kabul: At least 33 Taliban militants were killed and 20 were injured in military operations by Afghan army in the past 24 hours,...

Police graduation 10 Jul 2014 - 10:12 pm

Afghan security officials take oath during their graduation ceremony in Nangarhar yesterday. Foreign combat troops are set to leave Afghanistan by the end...

Kerry faces uphill battle to defuse Afghan poll stand-off 10 Jul 2014 - 10:08 pm

KABUL: US Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive to a sceptical audience in Afghanistan this week to try to resolve a deepening...

Israeli raids kill 31 on third day of Gaza campaign 10 Jul 2014 - 06:49 pm

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Israeli strikes on Gaza killed 31 people on Thursday as a major air campaign entered its third day, with...

UN chief appeals for Gaza ceasefire at Security Council 10 Jul 2014 - 06:46 pm

UNITED NATIONS, United States: UN chief Ban Ki-moon appealed Thursday for a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants, calling on the international community...

Kuwait's Zain says $4.5bn lawsuit against Iraqi unit dismissed 10 Jul 2014 - 06:38 pm

DUBAI: An Iraqi court has dismissed a $4.5 billion lawsuit against Zain Iraq and the country's top telecom operator will now seek to...

Qatar Exchange index adds 543.01 points this week 10 Jul 2014 - 06:35 pm

DOHA: Qatar Exchange index gained 543.01 points (+4.39 percent) this week when the bourse closed Thursday afternoon at 12,919.63 points. The trading value...