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Philippine rebels seize gold prospectors 04 May 2014 - 05:40 pm

MANILA: Communist rebels waging one of Asia's longest running insurgencies seized dozens of prospectors in a remote Philippine gold rush site and used...

Qatar Stock Exchange up 0.99pc 04 May 2014 - 05:37 pm

DOHA: Qatar Exchange pursued its upswing trend on Sunday adding 126.62 points (0.99 percent) to advance to 12,854.26 points from 12,727.64 on Thursday....

Iraq violence kills over 30 people in 24 hours 04 May 2014 - 05:36 pm

BAGHDAD: Violence in Iraq, including shelling in a militant-held city and an attack targeting Shiite pilgrims, has killed more than 30 people in...

18 dead in India train accident 04 May 2014 - 05:33 pm

NEW DELHI: A passenger train derailed in western India on Sunday, killing at least 18 people and injuring more than 100 as rescue...

Jazeera scribe on trial accuses injustice 04 May 2014 - 07:06 am

Defendents stand in the accused cells during the trial of 20 individuals, including five Al Jazeera journalists, during the trial in the police...

Solidarity 04 May 2014 - 07:04 am

Hamas supporters hold pictures of Palestinian prisoners and a poster reading in Arabic: “No to administrative detention” during a demonstration in the West...

Rebel pullout from Homs in final phase 04 May 2014 - 07:03 am

Syrian President Bashar Al Assad meeting with members of the Higher Relief Committee in Damascus yesterday. DAMASCUS: Talks on a rebel withdrawal from...

Hundreds of migrants arrive in Sudan 04 May 2014 - 07:02 am

A convoy of vehicles carrying illegal migrants who were abandoned in the desert by human traffickers arrive in the northern Sudanese city of...

Egypt opens presidential campaign 04 May 2014 - 06:55 am

CAIRO: Campaigning opened yesterday in Egypt for a presidential election likely to be won by the ex-army chief who deposed an elected Islamist...

Cairo court sentences 102 Islamists to 10 years in jail 04 May 2014 - 06:55 am

CAIRO: More than 100 supporters of Egypt’s deposed Islamist president Mohamed Mursi were sentenced to ten years in jail yesterday on charges of...

Tunisia’s presidential poll likely in November 04 May 2014 - 06:54 am

TUNIS: Tunisia’s next presidential and parliamentary elections will probably be held in the second half of November, the election agency chief said yesterday,...

Hundreds of migrants arrive in Sudan 04 May 2014 - 06:51 am

DONGOLA, Sudan: Hundreds of exhausted illegal migrants reached the safety of a northern Sudanese town yesterday after 10 people died when human traffickers...

Patriarch’s Jerusalem visit would be historic sin: Paper 04 May 2014 - 06:51 am

BEIRUT: A visit to Jerusalem by the patriarch of the Lebanon-based Maronite church to greet Pope Francis would be a “historic sin”, a...

Somali official among 7 killed in bombing 04 May 2014 - 06:50 am

MOGADISHU: At least seven people were killed yesterday, among them a prominent Somali official, in a bomb attack in the centre of the...

Chechen among five militants killed in Yemen 04 May 2014 - 06:50 am

ADEN: Five suspected Al Qaeda members, including a commander with Chechen links, and two soldiers were killed yesterday in an army offensive against...

Barwa Ral Estate celebrates Labour Day 04 May 2014 - 05:12 am

Barwa Real Estate celebrated International Labour Day by organising a football championship among Barwa employees and the workers of its project ‘Al Khor...

RLESC hosts meeting of LASTFIRE Group 04 May 2014 - 05:11 am

Officials during the LASTFIRE meeting at Ras Laffan Emergency and Safety College. DOHA: Qatar Petroleum’s Industrial Cities Directorate organised a meeting of the...

Msheireb Properties sponsors labour meet 04 May 2014 - 05:11 am

Msheireb Properties, a subsidiary of Qatar Foundation, was the diamond sponsor of the debut Labour Rights Protection Conference in Qatar. The event brought...