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At least 8 dead in car bomb attack in Somalia's Puntland 05 Dec 2013 - 02:25 pm

MOGADISHU: At least eight people were killed Thursday when a car bomber rammed a convoy in Somalia's northern port of Bossasso, a region...

Population Dynamics Seminar Successfully Concludes in Doha 05 Dec 2013 - 02:11 pm

Doha – 4 December, 2013 – The Doha International Family Institute (DIFI), member of Qatar Foundation, has concluded the Population Dynamics Seminar. Hosting...

Oman Air And Turkish Airlines Sign Codeshare Agreement 05 Dec 2013 - 01:56 pm

Oman Air and Turkish Airlines, have signed a codeshare agreement covering services between Oman and Istanbul. The agreement was signed at Turkish Airlines...

Qatar Stock Exchange up 0.51pc 05 Dec 2013 - 01:48 pm

DOHA: The Qatar Exchange ended in the red area when trading closed Thursday at 10,389.10 points or 0.51 percent gained 56.60 points from...

Emir, PM congratulates King of Thailand 05 Dec 2013 - 01:42 pm

DOHA: HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, has sent a cable of congratulations to the king of Thailand on the...

GM says will wind down Chevrolet brand in Europe by 2016 05 Dec 2013 - 01:41 pm

FRANKFURT: US auto giant General Motors said on Thursday it would largely withdraw its Chevrolet brand from the European market by 2016, citing...

CEO of S.Africa's state-backed power firm resigns 05 Dec 2013 - 01:39 pm

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's monopoly electricity provider Eskom announced the resignation of its chief executive on Thursday, the latest blow to the state-backed firm...

Minister of Labor meets Senegalese ambassador 05 Dec 2013 - 01:04 pm

DOHA: HE the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Dr. Abdullah Saleh Mubarak al-Khulaifi met here Thursday with Senegal's Ambassador to Qatar Sheikh...

Syria jihadists kidnap 50 Kurds: NGO 05 Dec 2013 - 01:03 pm

BEIRUT: Jihadists in northern Syria have kidnapped more than 50 Kurds in the past three days, in the second such case of mass...

Coordinated attacks in northern Iraqi city kill 11, wound 70 05 Dec 2013 - 01:01 pm

BAGHDAD: Gunmen and suicide bombers attacked a police intelligence headquarters and a nearby shopping mall in a coordinated attack in the northern city...

Qatar Central Bank to issue $1.1bn in local currency bonds, sukuk 05 Dec 2013 - 01:00 pm

DUBAI: Qatar's central bank plans to issue 3 billion riyals or $824 million worth of local currency government bonds and 1 billion riyals...

Exit poll results not good news for Congress 05 Dec 2013 - 11:06 am

New Delhi: Exit polls out last evening were not good news for the Congress with nearly all of them predicting big wins for...

A royal treat 05 Dec 2013 - 11:05 am

Japanese emperor Akihito (left) and Empress Michiko (right), along with former West Bengal Governor and Chairman of the Chennai-based cultural academy ‘Kalakshetra Foundation’,...

Top Bollywood director, censors spar over smoking warning 05 Dec 2013 - 11:03 am

MUMBAI: One of Bollywood’s top directors is embroiled in a row with strict film censors over anti-smoking messages that must be shown every...

New stamp on INS Vikramaditya 05 Dec 2013 - 11:03 am

New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee yesterday released a postal stamp and First Day cover on INS Vikramaditya, the aircraft carrier that was commissioned...

Kerala orders probe into iron ore mining 05 Dec 2013 - 11:03 am

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala yesterday ordered a vigilance probe into the previous Left government’s decision to give approval” for iron ore mining in state’s Kozhikode...

Mars Orbiter out of earth’s influence 05 Dec 2013 - 11:02 am

Bangalore: The Indian Orbiter to Mars zoomed out of the earth’s sphere of influence yesterday while cruising in the sun orbit on its...

US halts Nato supply through Pakistan 05 Dec 2013 - 11:01 am

Members of the Tehreek-e-Insaf party stop a truck to check documents in Peshawar yesterday. ISLAMABAD: Former cricketer Imran Khan’s party claimed a “tactical...