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

Attackers launch coordinated strikes in Afghan capital with bombs, bullets 09 May 2018 - 12:03 pm
Afghan residents look on near the site of a blast in the Shahr-e- Naw area in Kabul on May 9, 2018. AFP / USMAN SHARIFI
Three blasts rock Afghan capital of Kabul, casualties feared 09 May 2018 - 10:42 am
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Vietnam asks China to withdraw military equipment from South China Sea 09 May 2018 - 10:34 am
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5 officers, 1 inmate dead in Indonesia detention center riot 09 May 2018 - 10:00 am
A policeman escorts a student past the front of the Mobile Police Brigade (Brimob) headquarters in Depok, south of Jakarta, Indonesia, May 9, 2018. REUTERS/Beawiharta
Pompeo in NKorea to finalize summit, seek Americans' release 09 May 2018 - 08:56 am
File photo released by the US Government on April 26, 2018, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (R) shakes hands with the former CIA Director, now US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo in Pyongyang over the 2018 Easter weekend. AFP PHOTO / US Government/ HO
China's Xi, North Korea's Kim meet ahead of Trump summit 08 May 2018 - 08:47 pm
China President Xi Jinping his wife Peng Liyuan North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol Ju posing for a picture in Beijing on March 27 2018 AFP KCNA via KNS
Maldives' chief justice jailed for nearly 5 months 08 May 2018 - 05:51 pm
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Malaysian election pits former leader against elite protege 08 May 2018 - 01:38 pm
An election volunteer works a day before the 14th general election at a polling station in Alor Setar, Kedah state, Malaysia May 8, 2018. REUTERS/Lai Seng Sin
Indian tourist dies in stone-throwing protest in Kashmir 08 May 2018 - 12:48 pm
Indian security personnel and protesters clash following a gunbattle between security forces and suspected rebels in Srinagar on May 5, 2018. AFP / HABIB NAQASH
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