CHAIRMAN: DR. KHALID BIN THANI AL THANI
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: PROF. KHALID MUBARAK AL-SHAFI

World

China's conducted spy balloon program for years: Pentagon 08 Feb 2023 - 11:48 pm
This picture provided by the US Navy shows sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in the Atlantic ocean on February 5, 2023.  (Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Tyler Thompson / US NAVY / AFP)
Zambia commutes nearly 400 death sentences after law change 08 Feb 2023 - 11:17 pm
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema.
White House rejects report that US was behind Nord Stream sabotage 08 Feb 2023 - 10:39 pm
Gas leaking from the sabotaged Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022. Handout / DANISH DEFENCE/AFP
Wish You Were (not) Here: Pink Floyd's Waters slammed for UN speech 08 Feb 2023 - 10:16 pm
British musician Roger Waters is displayed on a screen during an address to a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine, at UN headquarters in New York on February 8, 2023. (Photo by Ed Jones / AFP)
Norwegian minister apologizes over TikTok on her work phone 08 Feb 2023 - 10:02 pm
File photo: Norwegian Minister of Justice and Public Security Emilie Enger Mehl. (REUTERS/Johanna Geron)
UK climate activists fined for da Vinci glue stunt 08 Feb 2023 - 09:53 pm
AP file photo
UK PM says 'nothing is off the table' for Ukraine including fighter jets 08 Feb 2023 - 09:41 pm
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky stands with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as they wait to meet Ukrainian troops being trained to command Challenger 2 tanks at a military facility in Lulworth, Dorset in southern England on February 8, 2023.  (Photo by Andrew Matthews / POOL / AFP)
EU to host donor conference on Syria, Turkey quake aid 08 Feb 2023 - 09:08 pm
Women react as they wait for a rescue team next to their collapsed building in the southeastern Turkish city of Kahramanmaras, on February 8, 2023. (AFP)
Putin likely armed rebels who downed MH17 jetliner, probe finds  08 Feb 2023 - 09:08 pm
Dutch head of the National Crime Investigations Division Andy Kraag answers journalists questions after a press conference on the results of the ongoing investigation into other parties involved in the downing of flight MH17 at EU Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (Eurojust) headquarters in The Hague on February 8, 2023. (Photo by Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP)
US in touch with allies over global Chinese balloon 'fleet' 08 Feb 2023 - 08:59 pm
This picture provided by the US Navy shows sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in the Atlantic ocean on February 5, 2023.  (Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Tyler Thompson / US NAVY / AFP)
Zelenskyy flies West: If it's Thursday, this must be Belgium 08 Feb 2023 - 08:43 pm
King Charles III shakes hands with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky at Buckingham Palace, in London, during his first visit to the UK since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Aaron Chown / POOL / AFP)
Twitter down in Turkey as quake response criticism mounts 08 Feb 2023 - 08:23 pm
Turkey has a history of restricting social media networks during national emergencies. ANGELA WEISS / AFP
Erdogan acknowledges 'shortcomings' in quake response 08 Feb 2023 - 07:52 pm
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan tours the site of destroyed buildings during his visit to the city of Kahramanmaras in southeast Turkey, two days after the severe earthquake that hit the region on February 8, 2023. (Photo by Adem Altan / AFP)
Iraq jails YouTuber, TikToker over 'indecent' videos 08 Feb 2023 - 07:51 pm
The building of the Supreme Judicial Council, Iraq's top court, Baghdad, Iraq, on January 19, 2022.  File photo / AFP
Syrian man digs for 30 relatives buried by quake 08 Feb 2023 - 07:36 pm
A Syrian man sits amidst the rubble as he waits for new about family members stuck under the wreckage in the town of Harim in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province on the border with Turkey, on February 8, 2023, two days after a deadly earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria. (Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP)
Swedish police blocks Holy Quran burning protest 08 Feb 2023 - 07:29 pm
Sweden's Minister of Foreign Affairs Tobias Billstrom speaks during the Hanalys foreign policy forum in Espoo, Finland, on February 7, 2023. (Lehtikuva / AFP) /
More survivors found as Turkey-Syria quake toll tops 11,700 08 Feb 2023 - 06:59 pm
People search for missing relatives in the rubble of a collapsed building in the southeastern Turkish city of Kahramanmaras, on February 8, 2023, two days after a strong earthquake struck the region. (Photo by OZAN KOSE / AFP)
Germany's Merkel receives UNESCO peace prize in Ivory Coast 08 Feb 2023 - 06:36 pm
Reuters file photo