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CAIRO: The second EU-Arab League ministerial meeting kicked off at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo Tuesday with 48 delegations participating.   The participants...

MANILA: Philippine authorities have lifted a ban on six brands of South Korean noodles after government tests disproved earlier reports they had unsafe...

RIYADH: Saudi King Abdullah has pardoned a radical Islamist scholar jailed over incitment against the ruler and sowing sedition, Al-Hayat newspaper reported on...

DUBAI: International Petroleum Investment Co (IPIC), the investment fund owned by the Abu Dhabi government, has mandated banks for a bond issue which...

MANILA:  Asia's cities are becoming increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters as they struggle with poor planning, population explosions and climate change, the Asian...

PARIS: French tax authorities have demanded $252 million in back taxes and interest from online retailer Amazon, according to a company document.   Amazon,...

DOHA: HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani met here at Qatar National Convention Centre on Tuesday morning with Macedonia's Deputy...

KHARTOUM: More than 3.5 million people in Sudan's conflict-plagued Darfur region will be vaccinated against yellow fever which is suspected of killing nearly...

LONDON: Iranian oil production rose in October after seven months of decline and exports rebounded strongly, the West' energy agency said on Tuesday,...

CAIRO: Egypt's National SocieteGenerale Bank NSGB shares rose 1.3 percent at the open of trade on Tuesday despite a report indicating its sale...

DOHA: HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and HH Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, the Chairperson of Qatar Foundation for Education,...

CAIRO: Egypt's Orascom Telecom Media and Technology (OTMT) made a net profit of 1.62 billion Egyptian pounds ($266 million) in the period from...

LONDON: British mobile phone giant Vodafone on Tuesday revealed it had slumped into a net loss of £1.977 billion during its first half...

JOHANNESBURG: A chartered aircraft with 127 people on board aborted take-off when one of its wheels caught fire Tuesday at South Africa's main...

SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft on Monday announced that the head of its Windows unit is leaving in a management shake-up that comes just weeks...

TOKYO: Japan's former World Boxing Council super bantamweight champion Toshiaki Nishioka announced his retirement Tuesday, a month after losing a world title bout...

DOHA: Real estate transactions between November 4 and 8 for the real estate sales contracts registered at the Ministry of justice are worth...

KUWAIT: Kuwait's Global Investment House said on Tuesday that three of its creditors had failed to back a $1.7 billion debt restructuring plan...