UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon yesterday visited Sahrawi refugee camps in southern Algeria as part of efforts to restart negotiations to end a dispute between the Polisario independence movement and Morocco over the Western Sahara territory.
Brazil’s powerful ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva lashed out at prosecutors Friday after he was briefly detained by police as part of a probe into a massive corruption scheme.
Yemeni authorities yesterday blamed the Islamic State group for an attack on a care home run by missionaries that killed 16 people and was condemned by Pope Francis as “diabolical”.
Qatar’s initiative for rational water consumption is significant in that conservation of water and other natural resources is important for the sustainable development of the country.
Under the patronage of HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani, QPMC’s sustainable CSR initiatives were honoured ....
A total of 24 out of 315 Qatar-based teams from 100 local schools were declared winners of Destination Imagination (DI) Qatar 2016 tournament.
Mainland Chinese financial institutions have expanded their physical footprint in Hong Kong’s prime business district at their fastest pace in five years, driving up rents and underscoring how Beijing’s policies are reshaping the city.
Alpha Bank, Greece’s fourth-largest lender by assets, swung to a loss in the final quarter of 2015 after it more than doubled its provisions for bad debts.
Pioneering cricketer Martin Crowe, widely acknowledged as New Zealand's greatest batsman who laid the foundations for Twenty20 cricket, was hailed a "hero" after he died of cancer aged 53.
Pakistani police are hunting a 29-year-old man who shot his two sisters dead in a suspected honour killing, officials said on Wednesday, two days after a Pakistani filmmaker won an Oscar for a documentary on such murders.
Sheikh Dr Faleh bin Nasser al-Thani, assistant undersecretary, agricultural affairs, livestock and fisheries
Ireland’s uneven economic recovery took centre stage yesterday as voters cast ballots in a national election...