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A freed Algerian hostage hugs a relative at Algiers airport after he was released by Islamist captors from a gas plant in In...

Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister Adnan Al Assadi (right) attends a meeting headed by Sunni and Shia clan leaders in Baghdad to listen to...

ISTANBUL: The American left-wing philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky urged Turkey on Friday to end its “malignant” war with Kurdish rebels, saying recent...

DUBAI: Iran said it had made some progress in resolving its disputes with the UN atomic watchdog, state media reported, even though the...

ADEN: Gunmen in southeast Yemen have blown up an oil pipeline that transports some 8,000 barrels per day to export terminals on the...

ABIDJAN/NIONO, Mali: France yesterday called on other world powers to commit money and logistical support for African armies readying their troops to join...

GENEVA: More than 140 countries have agreed on the first global treaty to cut mercury pollution through a blacklist of household items and...

KIEV: Prosecutors on Friday accused Ukraine’s jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko of organising the 1996 murder of a powerful lawmaker and warned...

BERLIN: The leader of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats in Lower Saxony yesterday predicted victory in a close-run regional election that will...

SYDNEY: An Antarctic cruise ship was yesterday racing to rescue a French yachtsman who had abandoned his boat and was drifting in a...

Hostages are seen with their hands in the air at the In Amenas gas facility in this still image received yesterday. IN AMENAS,...

BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB DOHA: The booming economies of Asia are heralding a change in the job sector in Qatar and the Gulf, with...

Snowmen in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris yesterday. LONDON: Extreme winter weather swept across western Europe yesterday, leaving thousands of passengers...

Doha: The relevance of the ‘majlis’, the traditional hall in homes where family members and friends sit together, is gradually diminishing as the...

  DOHA: HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani ,on Saturday conducted a phone call with UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed...

MUSCAT:  Oman has awarded Hong Kong's Hutchinson Whampoa a 50 million rial ($130 million) contract to build and operate a port terminal in...

CAIRO: Egypt's foreign reserves haven risen to $15.5 billion after Qatar made a deposit to support the Egyptian economy, the finance minister said...