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DOHA: Qatalum and Hydro yesterday announced to reinforce metallurgical expertise at Qatar University by introducing two prominent senior professors who will hold Qatalum/Hydro...

DOHA: A child’s school lunch box should contain a healthy mix of fruits, vegetables and whole grains, says a nutritionist.  These foods provide...

Indian Navy’s Western Fleet Ships INS Tabar and INS Aditya docked at the Doha port yesterday morning. The ships will be in Qatar...

Doha: Qatar has stressed that wars and armed conflicts have deprived the world’s children of their rights established by the international community through...

DOHA: Mowasalat will represent Qatar in the Grow with Public Transport campaign launched by the International Association of Public Transport (UITP). The ‘Grow...

A fire tender amid heavily damaged buildings in the eastern Syrian town of Deir Ezzor, yesterday. WASHINGTON: The chaos in Syria will only...

SANAA: Yemen has launched a $1.2bn fund to give back tens of thousands of southern Yemenis jobs they lost after the 1994 civil...

BENGHAZI: A blast killed a police colonel in Benghazi yesterday, a security services spokesman said, the latest in a string of attacks against...

  NAIROBI: Somalia’s Al Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents returned to Twitter yesterday after their account last week was shut for a second time this year....

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TEHRAN: Iran’s new President Hassan Rowhani said yesterday that Tehran will not give up “one iota” of its nuclear rights, echoing his hardline...

TRIPOLI: The political arm of Libya’s Muslim Brotherhood has called on Prime Minister Ali Zeidan to resign, accusing him of failing to tackle...

BAGHDAD: Bomb attacks targeting both Shia Muslims and Sunnis killed at least 20 people in Iraq yesterday. In the ethnically mixed province of...

TUNIS: Tunisian prisons and detention centres are facing the risk of “terrorist” acts, the prison officers union said yesterday, with several attacks having...

DUBAI: Forty-four people were killed and 39 injured in Iran when two passenger buses collided outside the capital Tehran and caught fire, Iranian...

TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rowhani added a second woman to his cabinet yesterday, appointing reformist Masoumeh Ebtekar as vice president to lead the...

Supporters of ousted president Mohammed Mursi demonstrate in Cairo for his reinstatement, yesterday. CAIRO: Egyptian authorities will bar 55,000 unlicensed clerics from preaching...

DOHA: Qatar received an average 76.8 millimetres of rain every year from 1972 to 2012, according to the Ministry of Environment. Rainfall in...