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DUBAI: Dubai, famed for its mega-projects before it was hit by the global financial crisis, yesterday announced a new development to open the...

JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti has issued a condemnation of demonstrations that appeared to blame Iran for unrest among Shia Muslims in Gulf...

    BEIRUT: The Lebanese army said yesterday it had arrested five Syrian men found with explosives and suspected of planning an attack on a...

Egyptian anti-President Mursi protesters hurl stones at security forces, during clashes near Tahrir Square, Cairo, yesterday. CAIRO: Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi faces a...

KHARTOUM: Sudanese rebels have seized an army compound in the Darfur region, the insurgents said yesterday, as the Red Cross reported the release...

GAZA: Israel eased restrictions on Gaza fishermen and farmers yesterday, Palestinian officials said, advancing a three-day-old truce brokered by Egypt after a week...

RAMALLAH: The body of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be exhumed on Tuesday, eight years after his death, in an investigation to...

ISTANBUL: An autopsy of the exhumed remains of Turkish president Turgut Ozal, who died in office in 1993, revealed the presence of four...

  BEIRUT: Syrian rebels attacked army positions in the northern province of Aleppo yesterday while violence also raged in and around the capital, monitors...

Clouds hover above The Torch Hotel in Doha yesterday. The forecast issued by the Meteorology Department yesterday said the weather will be partly...

By Isabel Ovalle DOHA: In the spring of Polish-Qatari relations, with the upcoming inauguration of the direct flight from Doha to Warsaw and...

Valletta: The President of Malta George Abela yesterday met with the Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz...

DOHA: Shafallah Medical Genetics Center (SMGC) is set to begin a research to find the genetic causes of autism by studying families with...

Children perform a dance at the Children’s Day celebrations. DOHA: The Childhood Cultural Centre celebrated International Children’s day with students from different schools...

Doha: Aljazeera Children’s Channel (JCC) has recently enhanced its partnership with BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC to offer a wide...

Participants registering for Al Dana Run organised by the Doha Bank at the Aspire Zone yesterday. Doha Bank hosted a special edition of...

DOHA: The Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar (SFS-Q) held a series of lectures and talks as part of the entirely...

DOHA: The Supreme Council of Health (SCH) has confirmed that a second case infected with the SARS-like coronavirus has been detected in Qatar....