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DOHA: HEC Paris is offering a bespoke management training programme for the top 150 executives of King Faisal Hospital in Saudi Arabia.  This...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) waves to supporters on his arrival at Ankara Esenboga Airport yesterday. As tens of thousands swarmed...

TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI: Libya’s army chief of staff resigned yesterday after clashes in the eastern city of Benghazi the previous day in which 31 people...

ARBIL/BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki visited the Kurdistan region yesterday for the first time in more than two years, in a...

TEHRAN: A leading Iranian conservative clerical group has endorsed veteran diplomat Ali Akbar Velayati to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the June 14 presidential...

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday reiterated his commitment to a Palestinian state, after his deputy defence minister said the government would...

Refugees stand in line for water at the Bab Al-Salam camp in Azaz, near the Syrian-Turkish border, yesterday. JERUSALEM: Israel aims to stay...

DAMASCUS: Syrian troops buoyed by victory in Qusayr were preparing yesterday to launch a northern offensive, a security source said. A Syrian security...

CAIRO: Egypt’s foreign minister, vowing not to give up “a single drop of water from the Nile”, said yesterday that he would go...

BEIRUT: Islamist rebels fighting the Syrian regime shot dead a 15-year-old child in front of his parents and siblings yesterday after accusing him...

  BEIRUT: Eighty-seven Syrians wounded in the battle for Qusayr, which ended last week in victory for Syrian regime forces, have been transported to...

PARIS: Sometimes, attacks in Syria’s bloody civil war start not with a bullet or a bomb blast, but with an innocuous-looking email. A...

The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani received at Al Wajbah Palace yesterday H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdullah bin...

DOHA: The Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning is working on a project to develop model residential districts in parts of the country,...

DOHA: Qatar is preparing a seismic code for buildings that is expected to be issued by end of the year. This was disclosed...

Hassad Food Company chairman Nasser bin Mohamed al-Fahid Al Hajri, right, with CEO Fahad Abdullah Turki al-Subaie at the media conference yesterday. (Shaival...

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, an analyst with a US defence contractor, is pictured during an interview with the Guardian in his hotel room...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, H E Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, addressing...