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  PESHAWAR: A three-day anti-polio campaign will begin in Pakistan’s troubled tribal regions bordering Afghanistan from Monday in five agencies of the Federally Administered...

KABUL: A member of the Afghan army shot dead a British soldier, officials said yesterday, in the latest “insider attack” to undermine the...

  ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has written to the Ministry of Finance for a sum of Rs5.9bn for the conduct of...

GENEVA:  About one million Syrians are going short of food, most of them in conflict zones, due to government restrictions on aid distribution,...

CAIRO: Qatar said on Tuesday it would lend Egypt's government an additional $2 billion and grant it an extra $500 million outright, extending...

    DOHA: Qatar Airways on Tuesday announced a capacity increase to daily scheduled services on its Poland route from next month.   Effective from February...

LONDON: A second inquest into the death of troubled British singer Amy Winehouse confirmed Tuesday that she died of accidental alcohol poisoning.   The...

MANILA: Five people killed in a battle with Philippine security forces were policemen and soldiers, authorities said on Tuesday as they looked into...

LONDON: Britain's FTSE edged up in early trade on Tuesday, consolidating a strong opening to the year before the start of the corporate...

LONDON: Global miner Anglo American named AngloGold Ashanti boss Mark Cutifani on Tuesday as its new chief executive to succeed Cynthia Carroll. "Anglo...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: Twelve Kurdish militants and one Turkish soldier were killed in clashes along the Turkey-Iraq border after the militants opened fire from...

DOHA: The Qatar Exchange down on Tuesday 12.91 points or 0.15% to 8,656.11 points from the previous closing of 8,669.02. The volume of...

SEVILLE, Spain: Qatar national handball team arrived in Spain Monday night to participate in the 23rd edition of the World Men's Handball Championship...

LAS VEGAS: South Korean electronics giant Samsung Monday unveiled a new television that lets two people watch two different shows at the same...

CAIRO: The Egyptian central bank offered $60 million to banks at a foreign currency auction on Tuesday, the same amount it offered at...

DUBAI: Qatar International Petroleum Marketing Co, or Tasweeq, has issued a spot tender to sell deodorized field condensate and Qatar Low Sulphur Condensate...

AMMAN: Jordan has seen a spurt in the number of swine flu "H1N1" cases after 66 people were confirmed positive in the Kingdom....

BEIJING: Chinese tourists spent $85 billion (about 529.6 billion yuan) overseas in 2012, twice the 2012 annual revenue of Mobil Oil Corp, company...