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DOHA: HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani received Tuesday the credentials of four new ambassadors to Qatar. HH the Emir...

DOHA: The Audit Bureau will take part in the 4th Arab-EU Forum in Azerbaijan next Tuesday. The Bureau delegation, headed by its acting...

TAIPEI: A Taiwanese cable news channel apologised Tuesday for running a photo of Queen Elizabeth II when reporting the death of Margaret Thatcher,...

CAIRO: Egypt's prime minister was due in Qatar on Tuesday for talks with his country's biggest Gulf Arab financial backer as Cairo is...

PARIS: France's food safety agency raised the alarm anew Tuesday over the use of bisphenol A, a chemical found in certain plastics, saying...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia denied on Tuesday reports that a court in the kingdom has ordered a punishment of paralysis for a man who...

BRUSSELS: Google was in the firing line again on Tuesday after a group of major companies, including Microsoft and Oracle, complained to the...

DUBAI: Oman's merchandise trade surplus rose 2.3 percent to 9.24 billion rials ($24.0 billion) last year, boosted by strong energy exports, according to...

DUBAI: Sharjah Islamic Bank (SIB) will issue a $500 million five-year sharia-compliant bond, or sukuk, on Tuesday, arranging banks said, after strong demand...

LONDON: EE, Britain's biggest mobile operator, is on track to sign up 1 million customers for its 4G service by the end of...

MANILA: Then-Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos forced his military chiefs to parade as women during a tasteless, sycophantic birthday party planned by his unstable...

KABUL: A NATO helicopter crashed in Pechigram district on Tuesday morning, according to local authorities in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.    A border...

MUMBAI: Shares in India's third-biggest software firm Wipro tumbled more than 11 percent on Tuesday, its first day of trading as a standalone...

TOKYO: Another suspected leak of radioactive water was discovered at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station on Tuesday, its operator said, the...

JERUSALEM: Israel's Housing Minister Uri Ariel on Tuesday said that 50 new homes would be built in annexed east Jerusalem to house Holocaust...

DUBAI: Saudi Arabian family firm Dabbagh Group is in the advanced stages of buying out its Indian partner's stake in a lubricant venture...

VELIKA IVANCA, Serbia: A man shot dead 13 members of his family and neighbours, including a two-year-old child, as he went on a...

ABU DHABI: The UAE’s $20 billion (Dh73.5 billion) civil nuclear programme is on schedule with the country’s first nuclear reactor slated to start...