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Charge your devices for charity: QC 09 Jul 2015 - 02:16 am

A donor charges his mobile phone at one of QC booths. DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) has introduced an innovative method to receive donations...

Over QR17bn wiped out in July as QE extends losses 09 Jul 2015 - 02:15 am

By Satish Kanady DOHA: Over QR17bn has been wiped out in market capitalisation, as Qatari bourse turned bearish during the entire sessions of...

Italian company wins €770m Al Khor 2022 stadium deal 09 Jul 2015 - 02:13 am

Doha: The Salini Impregilo Group has signed a contract to build Al Bayt stadium in Al Khor. The 770m euro deal includes 716m...

Emir performs Umrah 09 Jul 2015 - 02:13 am

Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani performed Umrah in Makkah yesterday. His Personal Representative H H Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad...

Official: Acute shortage of Qatari doctors 09 Jul 2015 - 02:12 am

Number of Qataris in health sector falls DOHA: Qatar needs 150 Qatari doctors every year but the number of Qatari medical graduates are...

Thousands remember Bosnia genocide 09 Jul 2015 - 01:01 am

Nezuk: Survivors of the Srebrenica massacre set out with thousands of others yesterday on a solemn 105-kilometre march ahead of the 20th anniversary...

Yemen tells U.N. it agrees to conditional truce 08 Jul 2015 - 11:42 pm

SANAA: Yemen's government told the United Nations on Wednesday that it agreed to a conditional truce to end more than three months of...

Over 200 American travelled or tried to join Syria’s fighting 08 Jul 2015 - 10:26 pm

WASHINGTON: More than 200 Americans have traveled or attempted to travel to Syria to fight for Islamic militants, Federal Bureau of Investigation chief...

Ivory Coast charges president's allies over post-vote violence 08 Jul 2015 - 10:07 pm

ABIDJAN: Ivory Coast has charged 20 people with crimes committed during a brief civil war in 2010-11 including, for the first time, fighters...

Italian police seize assets worth 1.6 bn euros from mafia family 08 Jul 2015 - 09:49 pm

ROME: Italian authorities said Wednesday they had seized assets worth more than 1.6 billion euros ($1.75 billion) from a family of five Sicilian...

Pakistani PM Sharif meets Malala in Oslo 08 Jul 2015 - 08:58 pm

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai speaks at the Oslo Summit on Education for Development in Norway on July 7, 2015. OSLO: Pakistani...

Clinton blames Republican 'attacks' for image slump 08 Jul 2015 - 08:26 pm

US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign event in Iowa City on July 7, 2015. Washington: Hillary Clinton accused Republicans...

High Court revokes ban on Uber in New Delhi 08 Jul 2015 - 08:15 pm

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday revoked a government ban imposed on online taxi firm Uber Technologies, clearing the way for...

Osborne spells out new, post-election spending cuts 08 Jul 2015 - 05:35 pm

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, holds up his budget case for the cameras as he stands outside number 11 Downing Street,...

Merkel’s govt. asked to apologize for detaining Al Jazeera scribe 08 Jul 2015 - 04:53 pm

Ahmed Mansour Head of the Legal Committee of the German parliament, Renate Kunast, has asked the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel to apologize...

Tripartite meeting in Lebanon to discuss Israeli violations 08 Jul 2015 - 04:52 pm

BEIRUT: Commander of the United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL), General Luciano Portolano chaired on Tuesday a tripartite meeting in the presence...

Ethnic clashes kills 18 in Algeria 08 Jul 2015 - 03:51 pm

ALGIERS: At least 18 people have been killed in clashes between Arabs and Berbers in Algeria's desert town of Ghrdaia, with several businesses...

India to achieve renewable energy target of 1,75,000 MW by 2022 08 Jul 2015 - 03:51 pm

NEW DELHI: Indian’s Power, Coal and Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal said his country is committed to achieve the ambitious target of 1,75,000...