JERUSALEM: President Shimon Peres yesterday urged Israel to resume peace talks with the Palestinians, saying their president Mahmoud Abbas was a willing partner...
JERUSALEM: President Shimon Peres yesterday urged Israel to resume peace talks with the Palestinians, saying their president Mahmoud Abbas was a willing partner...
KHARTOUM: Sudanese security forces yesterday blocked activists trying to deliver a petition criticising the government to the country’s human rights commission, drawing a...
Men measure graves for future casualties, at Sheikh Saeed cemetery in Azaz city, north of Aleppo. AZAZ, Syria: Gravediggers at the cemetery in...
JERUSALEM: Israel’s Supreme Court ruled yesterday an Arab lawmaker could stand in elections, overturning her disqualification by electoral officials over her participation in...
DUBAI: A Bahrain court yesterday jailed two policemen for seven years each after convicting them of torturing to death a Shia detainee in...
An N-700 Shinkansen bullet train leaves a platform for western Japan as travellers returning to their home regions for the new year form...
MANILA: The Philippines braced yesterday for its annual orgy of New Year’s Eve merrymaking which every year leaves hundreds maimed by firecrackers or...
HONG KONG: Scuffles broke out yesterday as thousands marched in support of Hong Kong’s scandal-plagued leader Leung Chun-ying, ahead of a mass pro-democracy...
TOKYO: A Nepalese man acquitted last month of murdering a woman involved in vice trade after serving 15 years in a Japanese jail...
BEIJING: Three populous Chinese regions plan to relax restrictions on the children of workers from rural areas trying to enter university-track high schools,...
CHENGDU, China: Entrepreneurs in China’s southwest are dreaming of turning the city of Chengdu into the world’s next Silicon Valley as the government...
From left: Dr Izzuddeen Bushaykhi, Head of the Training Committee, Dr Haya Mohammad Al Dirham, Head of the Jury Bench of ‘The Promising...
DOHA: Egypt’s famed Arabic daily Al Ahram has attacked Doha-based eminent Islamic scholar Dr Yusuf Al Qaradawi. Abdula Nasser Salama, Al Ahram’s editor-in-chief,...
Members of the Qatar University Alumni Association posing for a picture after the inaugural meeting. DOHA: The Alumni Association at Qatar University (QU)...
DOHA: The Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning has issued a warning to boat owners to remove their boats anchored in the old...
An aerial view shows the iconic Museum of Islamic Art with the Doha old port and the Emiri Diwan in the background. Kammutty...
Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, General Manager of Katara, receiving the certificate at Katara’s headquarters from Sherif Taher, General Manager of MS...
Doha: Qatar Central Bank (QCB) yesterday announced that all financial institutions operating in Qatar, including banks, investment and finance companies as well as...
