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FFC holds raffle draw 26 Aug 2013 - 02:45 am

The first raffle draw of ‘Win Nissan Patrol’ promotion by Family Food Centre (FFC) was held at the Airport branch of FFC yesterday....

Katara boosts ties with Chinese district 26 Aug 2013 - 02:44 am

The delegation from the Chinese district of Fujian along with Katara officials. DOHA: Katara has signed a strategic partnership with the Chinese district...

Over 400 top executives to attend Dubai finance meet 26 Aug 2013 - 02:44 am

DOHA/DUBAI: Over 400 senior-level executives from the finance and banking sector will discuss the regional and global regulatory landscape and its impact on...

HSE summit to discuss ageing workforce 26 Aug 2013 - 02:44 am

DOHA: “Ageing workforce” and “specialist skills gap” in the region’s oil and gas sector will be among some of the key issues to...

SYRIA ASSAD IGNORANCE CHEMICAL WEAPONS GAS 26 Aug 2013 - 02:42 am

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Building collapse 26 Aug 2013 - 02:37 am

Emergency personnel search for survivors in the wreckage of a seven-storey building that collapsed in the Sidi Gaber district of the Egyptian coastal...

Proof may have been destroyed: UK 26 Aug 2013 - 02:37 am

LONDON: British Foreign Secretary William Hague yesterday said any evidence of a chemical attack by the Syrian regime may have already been destroyed....

Bomb attack on Yemen air force bus kills one 26 Aug 2013 - 02:37 am

SANAA: A bomb tore through the side of a bus carrying Yemeni air force personnel to their base in the capital Sanaa yesterday,...

UN political chief to visit Iran for talks 26 Aug 2013 - 02:37 am

TEHRAN: The political affairs chief of the United Nations, Jeffrey Feltman, is to visit Iran today to discuss the war in Syria and...

Israel cabinet appoints new security chief 26 Aug 2013 - 02:36 am

JERUSALEM: Israel’s cabinet yesterday appointed Yossi Cohen, the outgoing deputy director of the Mossad spy agency, as national security adviser and National Security...

48 killed in series of Iraq attacks 26 Aug 2013 - 02:35 am

BAGHDAD: A series of attacks in Baghdad and north Iraq killed 48 people yesterday amid a surge in violence that authorities have failed...

Al Qaeda honcho slams Saudi support to Egypt 26 Aug 2013 - 02:35 am

DUBAI: A top Saudi member of Al Qaeda slammed the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz’s support for the...

Somalia wants sanctions on businessman lifted 26 Aug 2013 - 02:35 am

MOGADISHU: Somalia’s government has demanded UN sanctions be lifted from a businessman accused of being a chief financier for Al Qaeda inspired insurgents...

Kiir puts generals under investigation for abuses 26 Aug 2013 - 02:35 am

JUBA: Several South Sudanese army generals have been put under investigation for alleged human rights abuses in the east of the country where...

Mubarak appears in court 26 Aug 2013 - 02:12 am

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak (C) and his sons Gamal (L) and Alaa (R) are seen behind bars in court room yesterday in...

HMC suspends non-emergency operations 26 Aug 2013 - 02:11 am

DOHA: The Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has suspended indefinitely all non-emergency surgeries that require general anaesthesia due to a shortage of anaesthesia respiratory...

Syria nod to gas attack probe 26 Aug 2013 - 02:09 am

Free Syrian Army fighters prepare to launch home-made rockets in an attack against forces loyal to President Bashar Al Assad in Deir Al...

Absent-minded parents leave behind sleeping child in taxi 26 Aug 2013 - 02:05 am

DOHA: In a bizarre incident, an expatriate family apparently returning from long vacation on Saturday left their child sleeping in the back seat...