CHAIRMAN: DR. KHALID BIN THANI AL THANI
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World / Asia

Mystery surrounds landing of North Korean airliner in China 08 May 2018 - 11:28 am
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Japanese drug maker Takeda agrees to buy Ireland's Shire 08 May 2018 - 11:04 am
File photo of the logo of Japanese drugs maker Takeda Pharmaceutical is displayed at the company's Tokyo office in Tokyo. Japan's Takeda announcea 46 billion pounds firm offer for Shire, April 25, 2018. / AFP / Kazuhiro NOGI
Crisis in Myanmar's Kachin means jungle treks to escape war 08 May 2018 - 10:14 am
Students take part in a rally demanding peace at the war-torn Kachin State in Yangon, Myanmar May 6, 2018. REUTERS/Ann Wang
Taiwan blames China for absence from U.N. health meeting 08 May 2018 - 09:28 am
A man walks past a row of Taiwan's national flags in Taipei, October 14, 2011. REUTERS/Pichi Chuang
Myanmar court convicts farmers of trespass in 'blow' to land rights 07 May 2018 - 11:02 pm
Workers building a water catchment area behind a government-constructed irrigation dam that flooded land belonging to Aung Thay and other villagers from Karen State.  © 2015 Patrick Brown for Human Rights Watch
Trapped: Many hurdles to repatriate foreign nationals sex trafficked to India 07 May 2018 - 08:52 pm
A scene from Kamathipura red light district, Mumbai, India, December 1, 2014. Reuters/Danish Siddiqui
US, Philippines launch largest military drills under Duterte 07 May 2018 - 05:31 pm
US military honour guards march with their national flag as US and Philippine officials stand at attention during the opening ceremony of the joint US and Philippines military exercise at the military headquarters in Manila on May 7, 2018.   AFP / TED ALJ
13 dead, scores hospitalised in Cambodia poisoining 07 May 2018 - 04:19 pm
Cambodian patients confined at a hospital in Kratie province for drinking contaminated liquid. May 6, 2018. AFP / STR
Afghanistan's poverty rate rises as economy suffers 07 May 2018 - 03:12 pm
Afghan men carry tires as they walk near the old fortress of Bala Hissar in Kabul on May 6, 2018. / AFP / WAKIL KOHSAR
Pakistan interior minister recovering after gun attack 07 May 2018 - 11:53 am
File photo of Pakistan's Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal speaking to media outside the accountability court in Islamabad, Pakistan October 2, 2017. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood/File Photo
Afghan police shoot would-be suicide bomber in Kabul 07 May 2018 - 11:45 am
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Australia says hundreds likely to languish in Pacific camps 07 May 2018 - 10:50 am
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Feral dog packs kill 6 Indian children, terrify villagers 07 May 2018 - 09:40 am
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Second India teen raped, set alight: police 07 May 2018 - 09:28 am
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Bollywood's Khan stays out of limelight for jail appeal hearing 07 May 2018 - 08:24 am
File photo of bollywood actor salman Khan arriving at a court in Jodhpur in the western state of Rajasthan, India, April 5, 2018. Reuters
Taliban attack Afghan police patrol in Kandahar, killing 5 07 May 2018 - 08:02 am
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Pakistan interior minister shot, wounded in suspected assassination bid 06 May 2018 - 09:49 pm
In this handout photograph released by the Press Information Department (PID) Punjab on May 6, 2018, injured Pakistan's Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal (C) is evacuated from a helicopter on their arrival in Lahore.
Hundreds in Thiruvananthapuram remember Latvian woman raped, killed in Kerala 06 May 2018 - 09:26 pm
People hold candles and placards during a protest against the rape of an eight-year-old girl, in Kathua, near Jammu, a teenager in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, and an eleven-year-old girl in Surat, Gujarat, in Ahmedabad, Indiia, April 16, 2018. Reuters/Amit Dave