BEIJING: China has lost its key North Korean interlocutor with the purging of Kim Jong-Un’s uncle, but analysts say the young leader’s tightening...
BEIJING: China has lost its key North Korean interlocutor with the purging of Kim Jong-Un’s uncle, but analysts say the young leader’s tightening...
Seoul: South Korea’s deputy foreign minister will visit Washington for an annual dialogue that is expected to focus on North Korea, according to...
BANGKOK: The heads of Thailand’s powerful military agreed yesterday to a weekend meeting with the leader of the movement seeking to overthrow Prime...
TOKYO: The navies of Japan and South Korea said yesterday they had carried out a joint maritime rescue drill in international waters covered...
Ziad Al Nuaimi, the nephew of Ammar Al Saffar, former undersecretary of the ministry of health kidnapped since 2006, holds a portrait of...
People walk in Baghdad’s first newly opened shopping mall in the upmarket Mansur neighbourhood.
Yemeni students sweep the street as they take part in a cleaning campaign in the capital Sana’a yesterday. The cleaning event is part...
A Syrian refugee family warms up in their caravan after heavy rain at the Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of...
GENEVA: International mediator Lakhdar Brahimi has given Syria’s warring sides until December 27 to name their delegations to planned peace negotiations next month,...
WASHINGTON: The United States yesterday blacklisted a number of companies and people under sanctions aimed at Iran’s nuclear programme, US officials said in...
VIENNA: Experts from Iran and six world powers laboured for a fourth day yesterday to work out exactly how to implement last month’s...
MOGADISHU: Somalia’s president named economist Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed as his new prime minister yesterday, ending weeks of political paralysis as the country strives...
JERUSALEM: US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived back in the Middle East yesterday, a week after his previous visit ended in Palestinian...
SANAA: Fifteen people on their way to a wedding in Yemen were killed in an air strike after their party was mistaken for...
TUNIS: Tunisia’s powerful labour union yesterday tried to broker a last-minute agreement between the country’s ruling Islamists and secular opposition, struggling to reach...
The Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage H E Dr Hamad bin Abdul Aziz Al Kuwari visiting a stall at the Darb Al...
Cannons are displayed along with national flags at Al Wakrah in preparation for the National Day celebrations. Abdul Basit
Dr Amor and his team during an honouring ceremony. DOHA: Three faculties of Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar (VCUQ) won awards in the...
