UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon Meets With Iranian President Hassan Rowhani UNITED NATIONS: Iran’s new government began its first talks on its nuclear...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon Meets With Iranian President Hassan Rowhani UNITED NATIONS: Iran’s new government began its first talks on its nuclear...
The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met the Joint Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi on the sidelines of...
DOHA: The fourth conference of the presidents of Arab Supreme Courts concluded here yesterday with a call to set up special courts to...
LONDON: British utilities Centrica and SSE have lost 2.7 billion pounds or $4.34 billion in market value since opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband...
TOKYO: Japanese auto giant Nissan said Thursday it would recall about 910,000 cars worldwide over an accelerator glitch that can stall vehicle engines....
DAMASCUS: Syria is committed to a deal to hand over its chemical weapons, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview, as major powers...
ABOARD THE ROCS SU AO: Taiwan's navy launched its premier surface-to-air missile from the deck of a warship Thursday, its first test of...
DUBAI: Sembcorp Salalah Power and Water Co, in which a unit of Singapore's Sembcorp Industries has a 60 percent stake, completed a 53...
SHARJAH: Dana Gas is owed about $600 million in overdue payments for fuel supplied to Egypt and Iraqi Kurdistan, the chief executive of...
CAIRO: Egypt's central bank has received a $2 billion deposit from Kuwait, the governor said on Thursday. The deposit is part of $12...
TOKYO: Japanese electronic giant Panasonic said Thursday it will abandon research into new smartphones for retail consumers at home as it struggles to...
ABU DHABI: Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi investment fund with a mandate to develop the emirate's local economy, on Thursday posted a 10.4 percent...
DUBAI: Oman plans to release in January a list of state companies which it aims to privatise, Minister for Financial Affairs Darwish al-Balushi...
JOHANNESBURG: Global anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, who is recovering at home after spending nearly three months in hospital, is said to be doing...
KABUL: An Afghan soldier opened fire Thursday on his NATO trainers, killing one and wounding several others in the country's east, officials said. ...
BAGHDAD: A bomb exploded in a crowded market in the Iraqi capital on Thursday, killing at least seven people and wounding 15, officials...
DUBAI: Saudi Basic Industries Corp, the world's largest petrochemicals maker by market value, is aiming to print a $1 billion five-year bond on...
TOKYO: Workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant Thursday spotted a hole in one of the barriers intended to keep radioactive particles contained...