CHAIRMAN: DR. KHALID BIN THANI AL THANI
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: PROF. KHALID MUBARAK AL-SHAFI

World / Asia

Pollution turns India's white marble Taj Mahal yellow and green 22 May 2018 - 10:21 am
Labourers clean the fountain in the historic Taj Mahal premises in Agra, India, May 19, 2018. Reuters/Saumya Khandelwal
Foreign media head to N. Korea to witness nuclear site destruction 22 May 2018 - 10:05 am
A satellite photo of the Punggye-Ri nuclear test site in North Korea May 14, 2018. Planet Labs Inc/Handout via REUTERS
US reinforces East Asia ballistic missile defence as Trump-Kim summit nears 22 May 2018 - 09:55 am
File photo: A combination photo shows US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (R) in Washington, DC, U.S. May 17, 2018, and in Panmunjom, South Korea, April 27, 2018, respectively. Reuters/Kevin Lamarque and Korea Summit Press Pool/F
Five dead in India from Nipah virus, dozens quarantined 22 May 2018 - 08:20 am
File photo of Indian bats clinging onto the branches of a banyan tree on the campus of Gujarat College in Ahmedabad, April 29, 2018. / AFP / SAM PANTHAKY
With N Korea summit on shaky ground, Trump to press S Korean leader 21 May 2018 - 11:04 pm
White House was caught off-guard when, in a dramatic change of tone, North Korea last week condemned the latest U.S.-South Korean air combat drills, suspended North-South talks and threw into doubt the summit with Trump if Pyongyang was pushed toward
Murder of teenage Indian maid sparks calls for tougher laws urgently 21 May 2018 - 10:24 pm
Police said the 16-year-old girl from eastern Jharkhand state was strangled and her body chopped up and dumped in a drain earlier this month after she demanded a year's unpaid salary from the employment agency that hired her. (Representative image)
Top US court to examine India power plant complaint 21 May 2018 - 10:17 pm
The sun rising above Tata Steels blast furnaces at their Scunthorpe Plant in north east England (AFP file photo /  Lindsey Parnaby)
Nipah just another viral infection & there is nothing to panic, say doctors as three dead in Kerala 21 May 2018 - 08:05 pm
Animal Husbandry department and Forest officials deposit a bat into a container after catching it inside a well at Changaroth in Kozhikode in the Indian state of Kerala on May 21, 2018. A deadly virus carried mainly by fruit bats has killed at least three
Woman with 106 cocaine capsules in stomach held in India 21 May 2018 - 03:19 pm
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Pubs in India's capital ordered to stop playing recorded music 21 May 2018 - 01:44 pm
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Four years after coup, Thailand wearies of junta rule 21 May 2018 - 12:33 pm
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Taliban warn Kabul residents to 'keep away' ahead of attacks 21 May 2018 - 12:26 pm
Afghan National Army soldiers keep watch during an official visit in Farah province, Afghanistan May 19, 2018. Picture taken May 19, 2018. REUTERS/James Mackenzie
Philippines takes "appropriate action" over Chinese bombers in disputed South China Sea 21 May 2018 - 12:19 pm
An aerial view of China occupied Subi Reef at the Spratly Islands in disputed South China Sea April 21, 2017. REUTERS/Francis Malasig/Pool
Taiwan pleads for access to key WHO meeting 21 May 2018 - 12:14 pm
Taiwan's Health Minister Chen Shih-Chung (C) gives a thumb up as he poses with demonstrators after a press conference on the sideline of the World Health Assembly on May 21, 2018 in Geneva. AFP / Fabrice Coffrini
Almost 200 Games athletes, officials seek Australia asylum 21 May 2018 - 11:43 am
File photo of flags from Commonwealth countries. Reuters
One-fingered Japanese climber dies on eighth attempt at Everest 21 May 2018 - 11:35 am
In this file photo taken on August 23, 2015 Japanese climber Nobukazu Kuriki (2nd L) accepts a permit to climb Mount Everest and a Nepalese flag from Nepal's tourism minister Kripasur Sherpa (R) in Kathmandu.  / AFP / Prakash MATHEMA
Moon enters talks with Trump with driver's seat at stake 21 May 2018 - 10:17 am
File photo: US President Donald Trump (L) welcomes South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the White House in Washington, DC, US, June 30, 2017. Reuters/Jim Bourg/File Photo
Vanuatu to permanently evacuate volcanic island 21 May 2018 - 10:11 am
Smoke and ash emanates from the Manaro Voui volcano located on Vanuatu's northern island Ambae in the South Pacific, October 1, 2017. REUTERS/Ben Bohane