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Kenyan troops take position inside the Westgate mall in Nairobi. NAIROBI: Kenyan troops launched an assault yesterday to end a terrifying siege by...

DOHA: The Nepalese ambassador to Qatar Maya Kumari Sharma has run into a controversy back home, with reports circulating in a section of...

DOHA: The Central Municipal Council (CMC) says that authorities respond to only less than a third of its recommendations. The CMC made 111...

DOHA: With Qatar among the top countries in the region and the world in Internet penetration and e-governance, 51 percent of the public...

German Chancellor and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Angela Merkel (left) and CDU secretary general Hermann Groehe celebrate on stage after the German...

Hindu devotees take an evening boat ride at the Sangam, the confluence of the Yamuna and Ganga rivers in Allahabad, yesterday. 

Washington: Comparing the upcoming 2014 parliamentary poll to the one in 1977 after the 18-month emergency rule, Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate...

New Delhi: The External Affairs Ministry yesterday denied that it had any role in the detention of yoga guru Baba Ramdev at London’s...

Idukki (Kerala): Kerala yesterday decided to put off the opening of the sluice gates of a dam to release surplus water from the...

Lucknow: The suspension of IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal has been revoked by the Uttar Pradesh government, an official statement issued here yesterday...

President Aquino with secretaries Mar Roxas and Voltaire Gazmin, Philippine National Police chief Director General Alan Purisima, Armed Forces chief Gen Emmanuel Bautista,...

MANILA: An amateur photographer apologised yesterday and withdrew his participation in a photo contest after it was found that the entry that won...

MANILA: Super Typhoon Odette (international name Usagi) left the country on Saturday night but it will continue to enhance the southwest monsoon, bringing...

MANILA: Citing security reasons, businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles will ask for her arraignment today to be transferred from Makati to Fort Sto Domingo in...

MANILA: A directive crafted by the Department of Finance  (DOF)’s newly formed Revenue Cluster headed by Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner Kim...

RAJIN, North Korea: Russia re-opened a railway link with North Korea on Sunday, holding out the prospect of increased trade for the reclusive...

NAIROBI: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said Sunday a nephew and his fiancee were among the 59 people confirmed killed in an ongoing siege...

DOHA: The Qatar Exchange down on Sunday 85.00 points or 0.86 percent to 9,785.90 points from the previous closing of 9,870.90 points.   The...