COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has returned 30,000 tonnes of gasoline supplied by PetroChina Singapore as the quality of the cargo did not meet specifications,...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has returned 30,000 tonnes of gasoline supplied by PetroChina Singapore as the quality of the cargo did not meet specifications,...
SANAA: A Yemeni court on Wednesday jailed five Al-Qaeda militants for up to 10 years for plotting a suicide bombing that killed 86...
BENGHAZI: Gunmen shot dead a naval officer in eastern Libya on Wednesday, a security official told AFP, the latest in a string of...
DOHA: Qatar Exchange pursued its upswing trend on Wednesday adding 70.06 points or 0.73 percent to advance to 9,698.36 points from 9,628.30 on...
CHAMAN: A suicide bomber Wednesday killed at least three people and wounded 12 others at a southwestern border crossing point between Afghanistan and...
DOHA: Qatar women's team start their campaign in the First GCC Women's Handball Championship starting Thursday in Kuwait. Five teams are participating in...
DHAKA: Energy-starved Bangladesh on Wednesday inaugurated the opening phase of work for its first ever nuclear power plant using Russian technology. Prime Minister...
LONDON: Libya's crude oil output has risen to 700,000 barrels per day (bpd) and full production could be restored within days once the...
PARIS: Marc Jacobs, the US designer credited with transforming Louis Vuitton from "stodgy luggage house" to global fashion giant on Wednesday received a...
DOHA: HE the Minister of State for Defense Affairs Major General Hamad bin Ali Al-Attiyah met on Wednesday with HE UK Minister for...
TIRANA: Albanian Interior Minister Saimir Tahiri has met with HE Qatar's Ambassador to the Republic of Albania Yousef bin Hassan Al-Saai. During the...
JEDDAH: Global Islamic finance is expected to maintain its rapid pace of growth, strengthening its credibility as a real alternative to conventional finance,...
KABUL: At least 21 Taliban militants were killed in joint operations launched by Afghan security forces and the International Security Assistance Force in...
KIRKUK: Gunmen shot down an Iraqi helicopter on Wednesday killing four security forces members during a military operation against militants in the desert,...
DOHA: Qatar will take part in the 97th meeting of the GCC Financial and Economic Cooperation Committee at the level of GCC finance...
MANILA: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Wednesday revised down its forecasts for growth in the Asia-Pacific region to 6 per cent for 2013,...
KHOBAR: Europe-based engineering company Foster Wheeler won a contract to design and manage a new gas plant at the al-Fadhili oilfield for state...
ISLAMABAD: Four militants were killed in an encounter on Hub River Road while huge cache of firearms and explosives were also recovered from...