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World Stadium Congress opens on May 19 29 Apr 2014 - 03:33 am

DOHA: The third edition of Qatar’s World Stadium Congress opens on May 19 featuring the architects, solutions providers and stadium operations consultants behind...

Qatar Airways A380 service from June 17 29 Apr 2014 - 03:33 am

Doha: Qatar Airways yesterday announced that its first A380 aircraft will commence London Heathrow route operations from Hamad International Airport (HIA) operations on...

Q-Post to start electronic money transfer 29 Apr 2014 - 03:33 am

DOHA: The Qatar Postal Services Company — Q-Post — will soon provide electronic money transfer service to India, Tunisia, Morocco and Yemen, an...

Emir, Swaziland King hold talks 29 Apr 2014 - 03:31 am

The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received King Mswati III of Swaziland yesterday. They reviewed bilateral relations. Later, the...

Brotherhood’s Badie defiant after sentence 29 Apr 2014 - 03:28 am

Women faint outside the courtroom in Egypt’s southern province of Minya after a court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and 682 other...

Iraq attacks kill 57 as security forces vote 29 Apr 2014 - 03:27 am

Iraqi nationals residing in the UAE wait in line to cast their ballot for Iraq’s parliamentary elections outside a polling station in Dubai...

Bouteflika begins fourth term 29 Apr 2014 - 03:26 am

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika (left) takes the oath during a swearing-in ceremony in Algiers yesterday. ALGIERS: Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was sworn in for...

Israel could become an ‘apartheid state’ 29 Apr 2014 - 03:25 am

An Israeli road protected by a security barrier cuts the West Bank Palestinian town of Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, yesterday. LONDON: The US...

Assad seeks re-election 29 Apr 2014 - 03:24 am

A man operates an excavator at a site hit yesterday by a barrel bomb dropped by forces loyal to President Bashar Al Assad...

‘Blood money’ saved 358 from death penalty in Iran 29 Apr 2014 - 03:24 am

TEHRAN: The payment of “blood money” spared 358 Iranians from execution last year, the country’s prosecutor general said yesterday. The practice, made possible...

US experts see progress in search for MERS treatment 29 Apr 2014 - 03:23 am

WASHINGTON: US scientists say they have made progress toward developing treatments for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), after the death toll from the...

50 mummies found in Egypt 29 Apr 2014 - 03:23 am

CAIRO: A vast necropolis with some 50 mummies, including pharaonic royalty, has been discovered in Egypt’s famed Valley of the Kings near the...

April 6 movement banned 29 Apr 2014 - 03:23 am

CAIRO: An Egyptian court yesterday banned a pro-democracy movement that helped ignite the uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011, tightening a...

South Sudan peace dialogue resumes 29 Apr 2014 - 03:22 am

ADDIS ABABA: Peace talks between South Sudan’s government and rebels aimed at ending a four-month-old civil war resumed in the Ethiopian capital yesterday,...

LEBANON PRESIDENCY CHAIR HOLE 8 MARS 29 Apr 2014 - 03:21 am

Group: ViewsMideast Credit: BLEIBEL Source: Daily Star - Beirut, Lebanon Keywords: COLOR LEBANON PRESIDENCY CHAIR HOLE 8 MARS 042214 Provider: CartoonArts International /...

US, EU slap more sanctions on Russia 29 Apr 2014 - 03:04 am

A wounded pro-Ukrainian supporter in Donetsk yesterday. RIGHT: Pro-Russian men attack a pro-Ukrainian supporter during a pro-Ukrainian rally in Donetsk. KOSTYANTYNIVKA, Ukraine: The...

US tornadoes kill 16, devastate towns 29 Apr 2014 - 03:03 am

Destroyed cars after a tornado hit the town of Vilonia, Arkansas, yesterday. VILONIA: A ferocious storm system threatened tens of millions of people...

Mayor held in Mexico for drug cartel links 29 Apr 2014 - 03:02 am

MORELIA: The mayor of a town that serves as one of Mexico’s key drug trafficking ports was detained yesterday for alleged ties to...