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BUDAPEST: Hungarian State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations, Peter Szijjarto met on Monday with Qatar's Ambassador to Hungary HE Abdullah...

PARIS: Chinese telecom firm Huawei announced on Monday plans to invest 70 million euros ($90 million) to open up a research and development...

DUBAI: Falcon Private Bank, the Abu Dhabi-owned entity which bought the London unit of ClaridenLeu, is eyeing more acquisitions in the boutique wealth...

DOHA: Qatar International Petroleum Marketing Company (Tasweeq) has made a humanitarian donation towards the relief efforts of displaced people in the Rakhine State...

DUBAI: Microsoft Gulf and Qatar First Investment Bank (QFIB) Monday announced their partnership to upgrade the core information technology infrastructure of QFIB's Data...

DOHA: HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani met here at his Emiri Diwan Office on Monday morning with the Secretary-General...

DUBAI: A Bahraini court on Monday sentenced the daughter of prominent opposition activist Hadi al-Khawaja to one month in jail for taking part...

DOHA: Salam International Investment Limited (SIIL) has announced joint venture with five international companies as part of its business expansion plans.   Among the...

DOHA: HE Chairman of Qatar's Administrative Control and Transparency Authority Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah met here on Monday with Former President of...

LONDON: The father of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls' education, has been named a UN...

SEOUL: An international consortium led by Samsung Engineering has secured a $3.0 billion deal to build a power and desalination plant in Saudi...

NEW DELHI: An Indian college announced on Monday it had banned girls from wearing jeans, short dresses and T-shirts to crack down on...

DAVAO, Philippines: The United Nations launched a $65 million global appeal Monday to help desperate survivors of a typhoon that killed more than...

BAGHDAD: Iraq has bought 350,000 tonnes of wheat from Australia and Romania in a tender for a nominal 50,000 tonnes, which closed on...

BEIJING: A 16-year-old Tibetan girl has died after setting herself on fire, Chinese state media said Monday, in an area that has become...

BERLIN: Travellers should expect long waits at German airports Monday after the Verdi union declared a warning strike of security personnel overnight.   The...

BAGHDAD: An international conference on the Palestinian and Arab prisoners in Israeli jails is to be held in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad...

LONDON: British defence giant BAE Systems will complete construction of the Royal Navy's new submarine HMS Audacious in a deal worth £1.2 billion,...