RIYADH: Saudi Arabia raised $16.5bn from Muslim pilgrimages this year to Makkah and Madinah in the west of the kingdom, a Saudi newspaper...
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia raised $16.5bn from Muslim pilgrimages this year to Makkah and Madinah in the west of the kingdom, a Saudi newspaper...
DUBAI: Iran has temporarily banned the import of some “luxury goods” including foreign-made cars and mobile phones, a state-run newspaper said yesterday, to...
The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani with Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Al Arabi...
Palestinian children play football in front of the controversial Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank village of Abu Dis, on the outskirts...
WASHINGTON: Iranian fighter jets fired on an unarmed US drone in the Gulf last week and missed, the Pentagon said yesterday, warning that...
A house damaged by a mortar attack in Al Midan residential district of Damascus, Syria, yesterday. DAMASCUS: A defiant Presi-dent Bashar Al Assad...
Khalid Al Sayed EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The Gulf region has relatively been an oasis of peace amidst the chaos and instability that the Arab Spring...
DUBAI: Iran has temporarily banned the import of some "luxury goods" including foreign-made cars and mobile phones, a state-run newspaper said on Thursday,...
DOHA: QNB Group has announced the successful completion of a bond issuance under its Euro Medium Term Note (EMTN) Programme in the international...
DOHA: The Qatar Exchange in the green area Thursday adding 2.45 points (or 0.03%) to advance to 8,572.75 points from 8,570.30 Wednesday. The...
DOHA: HE Chairman of Qatar's Administrative Control and Transparency Authority Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, who is also the President of the Climate Change...
DOHA: The combined net profit of 41 from the 42 companies listed on the Qatar Exchange for the nine-month period ended September aggregates...
FRANKFURT: German engineering giant Siemens announced on Thursday a programme to slash costs by 6.0 billion euros ($7.6 billion) over the next two...
HONG KONG: Hanoi on Thursday won the right to host the 2019 Asian Games, ahead of Indonesia's second biggest city of Surabaya and...
TAIPEI: Taiwan's Foxconn has admitted that it cannot meet strong demand for Apple's new iPhone 5 due to difficulties in building the gadget,...
BAGHDAD: A car bomb in the centre of a predominantly Shiite city south of the Iraqi capital killed four people and wounded 11...
MANILA: A radio broadcaster was shot dead in the Philippines on Thursday, police said, the seventh journalist to be murdered this year in...
HOBART, Australia: Prince Charles swapped expensive wine for local beer at a pub in Tasmania Thursday, as the heir to the British throne...
