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Nepal police arrest 223 over nationwide strike INTERNATIONAL

Nepal police arrest 223 over nationwide strike

Police arrested 223 members of a Maoist splinter group across Nepal Sunday for vandalising vehicles and forcing shops to close while trying to enforce a nationwide strike.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Adnoc to consolidate 2 key offshore oil firms ECONOMY

Adnoc to consolidate 2 key offshore oil firms

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (Adnoc) said yesterday it planned to consolidate the operations of two of its offshore oil companies into a new entity, as part of a bigger restructuring of the Opec member’s main energy firm in the era of cheap oil.

9:45 AM November 28 2016
Violence escalates in South African student protest INTERNATIONAL

Violence escalates in South African student protest

Protesters at South Africa's Wits University attacked police vehicles with rocks and overturned another on Tuesday, as violence in nationwide demonstrations over high tuition fees escalated.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Santos backs Ronaldo to fire against Hungary CULTURE

Santos backs Ronaldo to fire against Hungary

Portugal coach Fernando Santos is backing misfiring Cristiano Ronaldo to break his Euro 2016 duck by netting against Hungary today to help fire his side into the last 16.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Co-operation in traffic safety ARABIA

Co-operation in traffic safety

Qatar’s National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC) has signed a letter of co-operation with the Intergovernmental Expertise Exchange Agency of New Zealand Government for co-operation in traffic safety field.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Hot day, rain forecast in the evening ARABIA

Hot day, rain forecast in the evening

A hot day is expected in Qatar today, followed by rain and thunder in some places and strong winds by the evening.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Statistics Ministry signs pact with Arab Centre for Policy Studies ARABIA

Statistics Ministry signs pact with Arab Centre for Policy Studies

The Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics and the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Minister opens Gulf Marine Centre ARABIA

Minister opens Gulf Marine Centre

HE the Minister of Transport and Communications Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti yesterday opened the Gulf Marine Centre in Al Wakrah in the presence of HE Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Chairman Abdulla Nasser Turki al-Subaey and a number of officials from the transport and communications sector.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Asia stocks extend rout as Hang Seng, dollar dip ECONOMY

Asia stocks extend rout as Hang Seng, dollar dip

Asian markets extended their rout and the dollar hit 15-month lows against the yen yesterday after Federal Reserve boss Janet Yellen raised concerns about the global economy, essentially quashing the chances of another US rate hike any time soon.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Transfer jumble has left Klopp in charge of a footballing camel CULTURE

Transfer jumble has left Klopp in charge of a footballing camel

Much has been made of Jürgen Klopp’s touchline behaviour at Liverpool, those sudden cartwheeling appearances, grasping at the air, forming weird geometric shapes with his hands, a blur of teeth, glasses and quilted sportswear.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Etihad asks court for more time for disputed Air Berlin code shares ECONOMY

Etihad asks court for more time for disputed Air Berlin code shares

Gulf airline Etihad has asked a German court for more time to continue code sharing with Air Berlin on 29 routes while it appeals a decision that will block it from operating the flights after January 15, it said last week.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Ebola-free Sierra Leone bets on cocoa to spark recovery ECONOMY

Ebola-free Sierra Leone bets on cocoa to spark recovery

In July 2014, Adrian Simpson was on a night out in Sierra Leone’s third city of Kenema to celebrate his biggest deal yet: A contract to supply a new business partner with cocoa beans from his company’s plantation.

4:45 AM November 25 2016