DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday announced a "general amnesty" for all crimes committed to date, state television said, without giving further...
DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday announced a "general amnesty" for all crimes committed to date, state television said, without giving further...
MANILA: A radio broadcaster was shot dead in the Philippines Monday, police said, the third journalist in just over a month to be...
DUBAI: Abu Dhabi's Emirates Steel has obtained $1.3 billion in credit facilities, becoming one of a string of United Arab Emirates firms to...
KIRKUK: A roadside bomb followed by a suicide bomber detonating an explosives-rigged truck at a police checkpoint in northern Iraq killed 15 people...
BEIRUT: Fresh fighting between the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and a coalition of rebels and an Al-Qaeda affiliate in eastern Syria has...
BEIJING: China denounced Vietnam and the Philippines on Monday for getting together on a disputed island in the South China Sea to play...
ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi's Etisalat plans a bond issue worth up to 3.1 billion euros or $4.22 billion split into four tranches, according...
NEW DELHI: Indian rescuers were searching on Monday for 20 students and a professor swept away by waters released from a dam while...
DOHA: HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani sent Monday a cable of congratulations to King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein of...
TOKYO: Tokyo stocks rose 0.31 percent to close at a three-month high on Monday following another record-setting Wall Street advance driven by a...
LONDON: Lloyds Banking Group said on Monday it would sell a quarter of its shares in TSB, through a listing on the London...
HANOI: A Vietnamese court on Monday sentenced a disgraced banking tycoon to 30 years in jail over a multi-million dollar scandal that shocked...
Exchange Rates in Qatar DOHA: Exchange Rates for foreign currencies as issued on Monday by Qatar National Bank (QNB) are as following: Currency...
KARACHI: Pakistan's security forces said Monday they have relaunched a military operation at Karachi airport, as gunfire resumed several hours after they announced...
BEIJING: Revamping a PetroChina subsidiary refinery to process sour crude is taking months longer than expected, cutting the firm's crude oil purchases from...
TOKYO: Japan's economy grew 1.6 percent in the first quarter of 2013 before a sales tax rise, posting the strongest expansion in more...
Thai police line the entrance of a shopping centre looking for protesters against the coup installed military junta, while shoppers pause to watch,...
Balinese take part in a traditional dance competition in Denpasar on the Indonesian resort island of Bali yesterday. Bali is renowned for its...
