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LAHORE: Unidentified gunmen riding a motorcycle on Tuesday killed a senior Shiite director of a university along with his driver in Pakistan's central...

MANILA: Some 600,000 survivors of a deadly typhoon that tore through the Philippines are yet to receive World Food Programme assistance, the body...

KIEV: Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday was set to debate a bill to let jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko go abroad for treatment...

TOKYO: An earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale hit eastern Japan early Tuesday, according to the US Geological Survey.   The epicenter, with...

ULUWATU: A minibus carrying Chinese tourists has plunged into a ravine on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali, leaving six people dead and...

SEOUL: South Korean President Park Geun-hye and her Kyrgyz counterpart Almazbek Atambayev signed an agreement Tuesday on Seoul's greater development aid to the...

KATHMANDU: Polling stations in Nepal opened early Tuesday for elections that will be crucial in completing a peace process stalled for several years...

WASHINGTON: The United States has increased to more than $37 million its funding for emergency relief in areas of the Philippines affected by...

TOKYO: Tokyo stocks closed 0.25 percent lower Tuesday as a pick-up in the yen against the dollar offset another record close for the...

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

NICOSIA: Two-time former Cypriot president Glafcos Clerides died on Friday, aged 94, his personal doctor told reporters.   "Unfortunately, at 6:20 pm or 1620...

KUWAIT CITY: Arab and African leaders are to start a two-day summit in Kuwait on Tuesday to review steps to promote economic ties...

Pakistani soldiers and rescue personnel keep watch as unseen hardline Sunni Muslims demonstrate in front of a burnt Sunni mosque following sectarian clashes...

QUETTA: Gunmen in southwest Pakistan yesterday killed the driver of a truck carrying Nato equipment out of Afghanistan before setting the vehicle on...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top court yesterday accepted a government request to set up a special tribunal to try former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf...

KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has rejected a provision of a US-Afghan security pact, putting the entire deal in jeopardy just days before...

KABUL: Ten Taliban militants were killed in joint operations launched by Afghan security forces and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during...

A person walks past  a mural painting of Nelson Mandela in Cape Town. Mandela remains in a stable but critical condition more than...