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Lloyds gets $66m top-up from Aberdeen deal 01 Apr 2014 - 01:11 pm

LONDON: Aberdeen Asset Management will pay Lloyds Banking Group a 39.4 million pound or $65.7 million "top-up" payment for the purchase of Scottish...

Five killed and wounded in Iraq's Diyala 01 Apr 2014 - 12:23 pm

BAGHDFAD: A security source in Iraqi Diyala province said that five people, including two in the awakening, were killed and wounded in two...

Foreign Minister meets Yemen's minister of planning and international cooperation 01 Apr 2014 - 12:22 pm

DOHA: HE Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Khalid bin Mohammed Al-Attiyah met on Tuesday with HE Yemen's Minister of Planning and International Cooperation...

Qatar Petroleum showcases projects at West Asia Expo 01 Apr 2014 - 12:21 pm

MUSCAT: Qatar Petroleum (QP) is showcasing it operations and projects at the Ninth Oil and Gas West Asia Exhibition and Conference (OGWA 2014)...

Attackers kill 2 Yemen police in separatist bastion 01 Apr 2014 - 11:49 am

ADEN: Attackers on a motorbike shot dead two Yemeni policemen in the southern separatist bastion of Daleh overnight, a security official said Tuesday,...

Exchange Rates in Qatar 01 Apr 2014 - 10:57 am

Exchange Rates in Qatar DOHA: Exchange Rates for foreign currencies as issued on Tuesday Qatar National Bank (QNB) are as following: Currency Buying...

Russia flaunts grip on Crimea with PM visit 01 Apr 2014 - 10:34 am

Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at a Memorial the 1941-1942 Heroic Defence of Sevastopol durng the Second...

New battle over Venezuela death toll 01 Apr 2014 - 10:33 am

A group of opposition protesters blocks a street with barricades during demonstrations against the government of President Nicolas Maduro at Bello Monte, Caracas,...

Windsor Greys statue unveiled 01 Apr 2014 - 10:32 am

Obamacare hits milestone; hurdles remain 01 Apr 2014 - 10:30 am

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama’s embattled US health care law, having survived a rollout marred by technology failures, reached a milestone yesterday with the...

NSA infiltrated RSA security more deeply 01 Apr 2014 - 10:29 am

SAN FRANCISCO: Security industry pioneer RSA adopted not just one but two encryption tools developed by the US National Security Agency, greatly increasing...

British anti-EU party head hails Putin for Syria policy 01 Apr 2014 - 10:29 am

LONDON: Vladimir Putin is the world leader who is most admired by the head of Britain’s anti-European Union party because of the Russian...

Hollande names new centrist premier after poll rout 01 Apr 2014 - 10:28 am

PARIS: French President Francois Hollande chose centrist Interior Minister Manuel Valls as his new prime minister yesterday, a coalition source said, replacing Jean-Marc...

Scale of Guinea’s Ebola epidemic unprecedented, says MSF 01 Apr 2014 - 10:28 am

CONAKRY: Guinea faces an Ebola epidemic on an unprecedented scale as it battles to contain confirmed cases now scattered across several locations that...

Greek police ban protests during EU meet 01 Apr 2014 - 10:27 am

ATHENS: Greek police have banned protests in Athens when the Greek capital hosts a meeting of European Union finance ministers today and tomorrow,...

Renzi threatens to quit if Senate reform blocked 01 Apr 2014 - 10:26 am

ROME: Italy’s new prime minister threatened yesterday to resign if a plan to reduce the powers of the upper house of parliament, a...

Germany arrests three over Syrian radical links 01 Apr 2014 - 10:26 am

BERLIN: German authorities arrested three people with alleged ties to a Syrian radical group yesterday in police raids across the country, the federal...

Court indicts Musharraf for treason 01 Apr 2014 - 10:25 am

Supporters of former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf protesting outside the Special Court formed to try him for treason in Islamabad yesterday. ISLAMABAD: A...