DOHA: Qatar will have about 4,500 taxis on the road by 2016, public transport company Mowasalat has said. The company plans to add...
DOHA: Qatar will have about 4,500 taxis on the road by 2016, public transport company Mowasalat has said. The company plans to add...
DOHA: The 2013 Qatar National Robot Olympiad will kick off today at the Doha Exhibition Centre featuring 200 teams and 500 students who...
Turkey’s ruling AK Party lawmakers Nurcan Dalbudak (centre) and Sevde Beyazit Kacar (right) attend the general assembly wearing their headscarves at the Turkish...
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry will launch a nine-day trip by travelling to Riyadh for talks on Sunday with the Custodian...
BEIRUT: Syria’s civil war has killed more than 120,000 people in 31 months, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said yesterday. “We have...
The Consumer Protection Department (CPD) has shut down a leading outlet for a month in Qatar for selling counterfeit construction material. During inspections...
KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti lawmaker has filed a request to question the prime minister in parliament over housing and graft, in a sign of...
JLALA: An explosive device detonated yesterday near a military post in the eastern Lebanese Bekaa valley, near the Syrian border, causing no casualties,...
QABATYA: Israeli troops shot dead a 22-year-old Palestinian early yesterday during a raid near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, Palestinian medics...
Iranian Kurds protest against the execution of Kurdish rebels in Iran, in the northern Iraqi Kurdish city of Arbil, yesterday. Iran executed 16...
BAGHDAD: Five car bombs north of Baghdad killed 19 people yesterday, while attacks elsewhere in Iraq left seven more dead, officials said, the...
VIENNA: Iran and six world powers ended an expert-level meeting over Tehran’s disputed nuclear activities yesterday, but there was no immediate word on...
CAIRO: Supporters of Egypt’s ousted Islamist president Mohammed Mursi called yesterday for daily protests in the four days before his trial on November...
KHARTOUM: Sudanese Islamist scholars have formed a National Movement for Change that hopes to lead a search for alternatives to the country’s “failed”...
ALGIERS: Algeria said yesterday it considers “unjustified” a decision by Morocco to recall its ambassador in response to comments by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika...
A general view of the mass wedding ceremony in Sana’a. Sana’a: Upon a gesture by the Father Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin...
The OPCW is satisfied it has seen destroyed all declared critical production equipment from 21 sites [Reuters] DAMASCUS: Syria has met the first...
H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser attending the closing ceremony of WISE 2013. This was the fifth edition of WISE and was themed...
