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WASHINGTON: A secret legal review has concluded that the US president has the power to order preemptive cyber strikes if the United States...

BEIRUT: Syrian opposition leader Moaz Alkhatib urged Syrian President Bashar Al Assad’s government yesterday to start talks for its departure from power and...

CAIRO: Leaders of Organ-isation of Islamic Cooperation states are to meet in Cairo tomorrow to tackle crises ranging from the French-led battle against...

TAJI, Iraq: A suicide bomber blew himself up near a group of anti-Al Qaeda fighters receiving salaries north of Baghdad yesterday, killing 23...

CAIRO: An Egyptian minister resigned yesterday in protest at police abuse as demonstrators and riot police clashed in the Nile Delta after the...

TEHRAN: President Mahm-oud Ahmadinejad said yesterday that he is ready “to be the first man in space” under Iran’s ambitious programme which aims...

KUWAIT: Kuwait supports free speech but must act against illegal comments made about the  state’s ruler, the government said yesterday, after a Twitter...

JERUSALEM: Israelis and Palestinians rarely demonise each other in their schoolbooks but each side’s texts offer children a one-sided view of their conflict,...

DUBAI: Bahrain’s justice ministry announced yesterday that national talks aimed to end the kingdom’s political stalemate will resume on February 10 after an...

DUBAI: At least 22 people were killed when a truck laden with gravel collided with a bus carrying 46 Asian migrant workers in...

DOHA: Considering an increasing number of marital and family disputes in the country, an apex judicial body has ruled that the court should...

DAMASCUS: Syria’s opposition chief urged President Bashar Al Assad yesterday to respond positively to a call for dialogue and to delegate his deputy...

DOHA: Sri Lankans in Qatar yesterday celebrated their country’s 65th Independence Day at their embassy yesterday. Ambassador Jayantha Palipane commenced the celebrations by...

Doha: The College of the North Atlantic — Qatar (CNA-Q) is set to host an international conference of technical and vocational education experts....

DOHA: A number of retail outlets that refused customers to exchange products sold were taken to task by inspectors from the Ministry of...

The Chairman of Administrative Control and Transparency Authority H E Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah with the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to...

  Doha: The Heir Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met at Emiri Diwan the United Nations Special Adviser on Yemen...

DOHA: About 90 percent of the respondents to the first nation- wide survey on cancer believe that some treatments are worse than the...