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MANILA: The Philippine and Chinese governments simultaneously declared fishing ban at the disputed Panatag (Scarborough) Shoal yesterday.
The Chinese directive covered most of the areas of Spratlys and other islands dotting the South China Sea, whil...
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MANILA: The month-long standoff between the Philippines and China has put into stake two major interests of United States of America (USA) -- security of treaty allies and freedom of navigation, a senior security analyst said.
Walter Lohman, Direc...
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ZAMBOANGA: Former members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in Siocon town here have gone big-time in the fishing industry following the launching of a livelihood project that benefited over 70 erstwhile guerilla members.
Dubbed as the Ku...
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MANILA: Two people were killed while three others were wounded in separate attacks perpetrated by suspected members of the New People’s Army rebel group in Mindanao yesterday, a ranking military official said.
Army Major Jacob Obligado, commander ...
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DOHA: Qatar University is in the throes of a controversy as a number of students have launched a Twitter (Qufail) campaign criticising its academic policies and administration and claiming that their woes have been ignored.
By late last evening ther...
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Khalid Al SayedEDITOR-IN-CHIEF
In Europe, its election time and the prevailing mood seems to be against ruling parties. Europe seems to be in the throes of a “Socialist Spring”.
France now has a socialist president after more than a decad...
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CHICAGO: Protesters chanting “Fight! Fight! Fight! Housing is a human right!” marched in Chicago yesterday using the upcoming Nato summit as an opportunity to draw attention to the US foreclosure crisis.
Thousands of protesters are expected to d...
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LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday he would hold talks with new French President Francois Hollande before an international summit this week, confident they would find “common ground” on how to tackle Europe’s economic c...
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WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign and his Democratic party raked in $43m in April, about $10m less than the previous month, his campaign manager said in a video posted online yesterday.“Thanks to everyone who stepped up to ...
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BRASILIA: President Dilma Rousseff, a former leftist guerrilla jailed and tortured during Brazil’s 1964-1985 military dictatorship, yesterday swore in the seven-member panel tasked with probing human rights abuses from that period.
“Brazil deser...
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NEW YORK: New York and Boston may strike many as more intellectual but Alexandria, a small urban area in Virginia just outside Washington, DC, is the most well-read city in the United States.
Alexandria was one of three Virginia cities on the Amazon...
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THE HAGUE: Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic made a throat-slitting gesture to a woman who lost her son, husband and brothers in the Srebenica massacre at the start of his trial yesterday for some of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War Two...
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ATHENS: Greece put a senior judge in charge of an emergency government yesterday to lead it to new elections on June 17 and bankers sought to calm public fears after the president said political chaos risked causing panic and a run on deposits.
Euro...
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THE HAGUE: Former Liberian President Charles Taylor said yesterday witnesses had been threatened and paid to testify against him in a trial that found him guilty of crimes against humanity, and described the international court system as a tool of th...
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BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the surprise dismissal of her environment minister yesterday, three days after he led her conservatives to an historic defeat in a regional election.In an unusual, hastily arranged statement on nation...
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Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) soldiers march during the 29th anniversary celebrations in Juba yesterday. South Sudan will soon acquire anti-aircraft missiles to defend its territory against air attacks it says are frequently carried out by ...
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TEHRAN: Iran hardened its tone against a plan to unite Bahrain with Saudi Arabia, calling on its people to protest tomorrow against what it described as a US plot to annex the tiny Gulf archipelago.
The Islamic Propagation Coordination Council, whic...
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tripoli: Seven people were killed and more than 20 others wounded as gunmen yesterday raided the oasis town of Ghadames on the border with Algeria, Libya’s government spokesman said.
“There were clashes in the city of Ghadames,” Nasser Al Mana...
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RAMALLAH: A new Palestinian government in the West Bank featuring 11 new faces was sworn in yesterday at a ceremony in Ramallah, in a move which angered the Hamas government in Gaza. Ministers, including returning prime minister Salam Fayyad, took th...
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CAIRO: Foreign observers of Egypt’s first real leadership contest will be unable to say whether the process is free and fair because their movements are being restricted by election authorities, one of the groups supposed to be monitoring the vote ...
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CAIRO: A candidate in Egypt’s first post-revolt presidential election pulled out of the race yesterday to support former Arab League chief Amr Moussa, state media reported.Mohammed Fawzi Eissa, a lawyer for several ministers from ousted president H...
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By Jeffrey Goldberg
When President Barack Obama dispatches his negotiators to Baghdad next week to join talks with Iran over the future of its nuclear programme, he’ll be most concerned about the reaction of one man: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud ...
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CANNES, France: Cannes’ women jurors defended the film festival yesterday amid a storm over the all-male line-up for its top prize, as a sweet-natured family romp by Wes Anderson kicked off the movie bonanza.
The US director’s teen elopement fan...
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15 civilians 'summarily executed' in Syria's Homs: NGO
BEIRUT: At least 15 civilians were "summarily executed" by regime forces in a neighbourhood of the central Syrian city of Homs overnight, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednes...
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Qatar Exchange down 0.30%
DOHA: The Qatar Exchange was pursued its upswing trend Wednesday down 25.61 points or 0.30% to 8,465.71 points from the previous closing of 8,491.32 . full story...
Tokyo stocks close down 1.12%
TOKYO: Tokyo stocks lo...
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The winds of political change sweeping through Europe have hit Germany too. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union suffered a stinging defeat on Sunday in the country’s most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which has been ...
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The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani with Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at Al Wajba Palace yesterday. They discussed ties of cooperation and ways to strength them. Qatar and Thailand also held official talks chaired ...
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DOHA: There is a huge backlog of court cases related particularly to disputes over inheritance, divorce and custody of children of divorced couples and some of these litigations are lingering for as many as 20 years.
Inheritance cases involving Qata...
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DOHA: In an innovative move, the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) will bring together the public, members of the medical community and the health authorities in an open discussion on health sector in Qatar.
The event on May 30 will review the achie...
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DOHA: The Qatar Chamber of Commerce and Industry, now renamed Qatar Chamber, representative body of the private sector, has plans to launch a public shareholding company that would launch small and medium enterprises. The company will be named ‘Hol...
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