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Strong winds expected Tuesday ARABIA

Strong winds expected Tuesday

Strong winds are expected across the country Tuesday along with poor visibility due to blowing dust, the Qatar Met department has said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Overseas workers’ welfare must receive top priority: Binay INTERNATIONAL

Overseas workers’ welfare must receive top priority: Binay

Vice President Jejomar Binay has said the government should not neglect the welfare of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Museveni a no-show at first presidential vote debate INTERNATIONAL

Museveni a no-show at first presidential vote debate

As Uganda held its first-ever presidential debate on Friday night, the most barbed comments were directed at an empty lectern on the far right side of the stage.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Bastia test for PSG as Ligue 1 restarts CULTURE

Bastia test for PSG as Ligue 1 restarts

Paris Saint-Germain will hope the winter break has not removed any of their sharpness as the runaway Ligue 1 leaders welcome Bastia to the Parc des Princes today.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Former top officials get life bans for doping blackmail CULTURE

Former top officials get life bans for doping blackmail

Two top Russian athletics officials and the son of former world governing body President Lamine Diack were banned from the sport for life on Thursday for covering up an elite Russian athlete’s positive dope test and blackmailing her over it.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Independence Day greetings ARABIA

Independence Day greetings

HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, HH the Deputy Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani and HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Former senator Dale Bumpers dead at 90 INTERNATIONAL

Former senator Dale Bumpers dead at 90

Dale Bumpers, the small-town lawyer who served Arkansas as governor and in the US Senate and delivered a stirring speech during Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial that helped save his presidency, died at home on Friday at the age of 90, his family said on Saturday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Charitable societies build water plant in Sudan ARABIA

Charitable societies build water plant in Sudan

Qatar Charity (QC) has announced that a water plant it is supervising in Nile River state in Sudan will be ready this month.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
FIFA ethics body nears verdict but Platini will miss hearing CULTURE

FIFA ethics body nears verdict but Platini will miss hearing

Joseph Blatter and Michel Platini face what could be the last chance to save their football careers, in hearings at FIFA’s ethics committee adjudicatory chamber today...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Pakistan vows revenge one year after Taliban school massacre INTERNATIONAL

Pakistan vows revenge one year after Taliban school massacre

Pakistan's leader, speaking beneath portraits of children killed by Taliban bullets, called for vengeance as the country marked the first anniversary of a school massacre that killed 151 people.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Hyatt Plaza hosts Hawiyati Festival ARABIA

Hyatt Plaza hosts Hawiyati Festival

Hyatt Plaza Shopping Mall yesterday hosted Qatar’s National Day celebrations as part of the second Hawiyati festival.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Beijing’s aluminium smelters vow to shut more capacity ECONOMY

Beijing’s aluminium smelters vow to shut more capacity

China’s aluminium smelters on Friday pledged to shut more production this month and not to add any new capacity in 2016, as the industry pushes to shore up plunging prices for the metal.

4:45 AM November 25 2016