DOHA: After its maiden and successful direct interaction with private companies and their workers to explain the provisions of the labour law in...
DOHA: After its maiden and successful direct interaction with private companies and their workers to explain the provisions of the labour law in...
ALGIERS: Algerian troops captured six kidnappers and found the bodies of 25 captives yesterday at a desert gas complex, reports said, as a...
Likud activists hang large campaign banners of Prime Minister and Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem,...
GAZA CITY: Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak will make their first visit to Gaza, officials from the Hamas...
DUBAI: Iran hanged two men yesterday for their role in an assault that was filmed and posted on YouTube, the Iranian Students’ News...
BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman yesterday expressed support for a law allowing civil marriages, currently illegal in Lebanon, saying it will help build unity...
Damacuss/PARIS: Syrian opposition leaders will meet in Paris this month, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said yesterday, decrying an “abominable” situation in which...
CAIRO: Five people were killed yesterday in a northern Cairo district as clashes erupted after a police officer accidentally killed a man while...
DUBAI: A senior aide to Iran’s supreme leader warned against the overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad, saying his fate was a...
MOSUL, Iraq: An Iraqi protester set himself ablaze yesterday in a dramatic turn in more than three weeks of rallies by Sunni Muslims...
SANA’A: At least 10 suspected Al Qaeda operatives were killed by an explosion in a house in south Yemen where they were making...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama took the official oath for his second term yesterday at the White House in a small, private ceremony that...
LONDON: London’s Heathrow Airport cancelled a fifth of flights yesterday and airlines scrapped 40 percent of flights to Paris’s main airports as snow...
LONDON: A British survivor of the Algerian gas plant siege described yesterday a nerve-racking escape across a stretch of desert and a moment...
NIONO, Mali: French troops in armoured vehicles advanced yesterday towards a central Malian town abandoned by Islamist rebels after days of air strikes,...
BERLIN: German Cha-ncellor Angela Merkel’s party was in the lead yesterday after the first state poll of a general election year, initial results...
CARACAS: President Hugo Chavez is “gaining strength” as he finishes post-operative care and entering a “new phase” of cancer treatment, Venezuelan Vice President...
The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani with Ethiopian Agriculture Minister Tefera Derbew in Doha yesterday. Derbew delivered a written...