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Saudi MERS deaths jump on data review 04 Jun 2014 - 03:31 am

Saudi MERS deaths jump on data review RIYADH: Saudi Arabia announced a jump of nearly 50 percent in deaths from a new virus...

Syrians vote in wartime election 04 Jun 2014 - 02:54 am

President Bashar Al Assad and his wife Asma Al Assad casting their votes at a polling station in Maliki, in Damascus, yesterday. London:...

UAE arrests Asian on spying charges 04 Jun 2014 - 02:52 am

ABU DHABI: Emirati authorities have arrested an Asian resident suspected of spying for a foreign country by providing sensitive military information deemed threatening...

Dusty, windy weather forecast 04 Jun 2014 - 02:50 am

DOHA: The weather bureau has forecast a dusty and windy weather for today and tomorrow. The bureau has said northwesterly wind with speed...

QP Suppliers and Contractors Forum opens today 04 Jun 2014 - 02:02 am

DOHA: The Purchasing and Contracts Department of Qatar Petroleum will be hosting the ‘Suppliers and Contractors Forum’ under the patronage of H E...

CO2 CARBON EMISSIONS ENVIRONMENT LADY LIBERTY TORCH POLLUTION CLIMATE 03 Jun 2014 - 11:39 pm

Group: ViewsAmerica Credit: VAN DAM Source: Landsmeer, Netherlands Keywords: COLOR CO2 CARBON EMISSIONS ENVIRONMENT LADY LIBERTY TORCH POLLUTION CLIMATE CHANGE GLOBAL WARMING 060214...

Former warlord backs Abdullah in Afghan vote 03 Jun 2014 - 11:10 pm

KABUL: A former Afghan warlord with previous links to Al Qaeda yesterday became the latest high-profile politician to endorse presidential front-runner Abdullah Abdullah...

‘Freed Taliban want to work for peace’ 03 Jun 2014 - 11:10 pm

KANDAHAR: One of the five senior Taliban figures released from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for a US soldier wants to rejoin the Afghan...

UN denounce death of 12 Ghazni people 03 Jun 2014 - 11:10 pm

Kabul: The United Nations has strongly condemned the killing of 12 civilians in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province, when two vehicles travelling to a wedding...

China defends crackdown in Tiananmen 03 Jun 2014 - 11:09 pm

BEIJING: China defended the bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square yesterday, the eve of the 25th anniversary, saying it...

Philippine Maoist rebels free kidnapped forest workers 03 Jun 2014 - 11:09 pm

MANILA: Communist rebels waging a long-running insurgency in the Philippines freed Monday a group of forestry surveyors they had seized on suspicion of...

Thai junta lifts curfew in tourist areas 03 Jun 2014 - 11:08 pm

BANGKOK: Thailand’s junta said yesterday that it was scrapping a curfew in three major beach resorts to woo back tourists in the wake...

Japan PM may visit N Korea in kidnap probe 03 Jun 2014 - 11:08 pm

TOKYO: Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may make a rare visit to North Korea, his foreign minister said yesterday, days after announcing a...

S Korea ferry owner seeks asylum: Report 03 Jun 2014 - 11:08 pm

SEOUL: South Korean prosecutors said yesterday the fugitive head of the family that owns the vessel had indirectly approached a foreign embassy in...

Arab TV airs video of Frenchman kidnapped in Mali in 2011 03 Jun 2014 - 06:33 pm

DUBAI: Frenchman Serge Lazarevic, kidnapped in Mali by Al-Qaeda in 2011, appeared in a video aired on Tuesday by Dubai-based Alaan television urging...

Saudi Arabia says has 113 more MERS cases than previously thought 03 Jun 2014 - 06:28 pm

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia said on Monday that a review of health data had identified an additional 113 confirmed cases of the sometimes deadly...

Obama unveils $1bn security plan for eastern Europe 03 Jun 2014 - 06:25 pm

WARSAW: President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled a $1 billion US security plan for eastern Europe aimed at allaying fears over a resurgent...

Iraq attacks and shelling kill 35 03 Jun 2014 - 06:20 pm

BAGHDAD: Violence across Iraq, including shelling of the conflict-hit city of Fallujah, killed 35 people Tuesday, as politicians haggle over forming a new...