TOKYO: Japan’s efforts to scour areas around Fukushima have been insufficient, pressure group Greenpeace said yesterday, as the government considers letting some residents...
TOKYO: Japan’s efforts to scour areas around Fukushima have been insufficient, pressure group Greenpeace said yesterday, as the government considers letting some residents...
YANGON: Myanmar yesterday looked to build on a tentative peace deal with Kachin rebels, with talks aimed at ending the country’s last major...
STOCKHOLM/TORONTO: Canadian Alice Munro (pictured) won the Nobel Prize for Literature yesterday for her tales of the struggles, loves and tragedies of women...
MOSCOW: Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden’s father arrived in Moscow yesterday to see his son, who was granted asylum in Russia...
WASHINGTON: Republicans offered a short term lift to the US debt ceiling yesterday, sending stock prices soaring on signs that a bitter political...
BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives met the Greens party yesterday for initial coalition talks, sounding out a possible alliance despite deep scepticism such...
LONDON: Liberia’s former president and warlord Charles Taylor is to serve out his 50-year prison sentence for war crimes in a British jail,...
WASHINGTON: The war on news leaks by President Barack Obama’s administration is becoming a threat to press freedom and democracy, a media watchdog...
A supporter of Egypt’s army takes a photo with his mobile phone as he poses with a poster of Army Chief General Abdel...
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is suggesting the world’s chemical weapons watchdog uses a US-made mobile destruction unit in Syria to neutralise the country’s toxic...
BAGHDAD: Iraq executed 42 “terrorism” convicts over the past week, the justice ministry said yesterday, defying international condemnation of its extensive use of...
BEIRUT: A gory online video that appears to show Hezbollah fighters executing gravely wounded Syrian rebels has sparked outrage and threatens to worsen...
JERUSALEM: The Nobel Prize in chemistry has stirred up national pride in Israel but also concern on Thursday over a brain drain of...
DOHA: The Meteorology Department has forecast strong winds and a further fall in temperature today, with Qatar going through a transition from summer...
Doha: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday issued Decree No. 57 of 2013, appointing Hamad Ahmed Hassan Al...
Jean-Christophe Peaucelle, French Ambassador to Qatar, and Darwish Ahmed, Director of Marketing and International Affairs at Katara, watching photographs taken by Muhammad Al...
DOHA: Some 29 Indian fishermen from the neighboring UAE who were yesterday sentenced by a special court to two weeks in jail for...
Doha: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, yesterday issued the Emiri Decision No. 139 of 2013 appointing Sheikha Alyaa...
