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SOFIA/BRUSSELS: Bulgaria backed down yesterday from charges it made a few months ago that Hezbollah was behind a deadly bus bombing on its...

KHARTOUM: Sudanese rebels killed leaders of a breakaway faction last month to deter others from joining a peace deal in the western Darfur...

  RABAT: Some 200 members of Morocco’s pro-reform February 20 protest movement gathered outside the justice ministry in Rabat yesterday to demand the release...

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I wrote an article earlier titled “Depriving Qataris of their own money” (Al Sharq, October 2, 2011). In that article, I asked why...

New media have revolutionised the media environment by lowering the professional standards needed for creating media content. Users of new media can now...

Fishing gear like muskar, dejeej, hadra and nayza (fish hook, nets and traps) were tools of economic activity in the past. Al deyeen,...

Khalid Al Sayed EDITOR-IN-CHIEF This week Germany warned against arming Syrian rebels on the ground that it might lead to sectarian war, but...

Doha: Some seven years after Hezbollah and its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah were celebrated as heroes in the GCC region and the rest...

  Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Abdullatif al-Zayani takes part in the 126th session of the Supreme Council of the GCC...

Doha: A high level official of the FIFA Ethics Committee said there is no corruption case surrounding Qatar’s successful 2022 World Cup bid,...

H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser and Prince Charles witnessing the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Qatar Foundation and the Prince...

DOHA: As a Qatari who was picked up by law-enforcement officials in Dubai on his way back to Doha from Bangkok completed 100...

The Ministry of Environment has released a rare green turtle back to the sea. Belonging to the endangered Chelonia Mydas family, it was...

SINGAPORE: Yahoo! Singapore said Wednesday that new rules requiring the licensing of online news sites will help pave the way for it to...

DUBAI: Qatar Navigation (Milaha) said on Wednesday it had received regulatory approval for its share buyback plans, according to a bourse statement.   Milaha's...

PATNA, India: A total of 27 people including six children were killed across the eastern Indian state of Bihar after they were struck...