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FROM LEFT: Yousef Mohammed Al Jaida, Deputy CEO of QFC Authority, Sheikh Mohammed bin Faisal Al Thani, Board Member, Qatari Businessmen Association, Sarah...

KPMG officials Adeel Mushtaq, David Kirk and Yacoub Hobeika, at a seminar on Insurance Regulations in Doha yesterday. Salim Matramkot DOHA: KPMG in...

Senior officials of the company at the launch. DOHA: Ezdan Holding Group yesterday launched its official website at a ceremony attended by senior...

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (left) and Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) attend the World Economic Forum’s...

Flags fly at half-mast near the entrance of the Santander’s offices in Boadilla del Monte outside Madrid yesterday. Emilio Botin, one of Spain’s...

NEW YORK/LONDON: Gold fell 0.7 percent yesterday, trading near its lowest in seven months at just over $1,240 an ounce, pulled down by...

Doha: The GCC’s export-oriented fertiliser industry is set to play a key role in fortifying global food security, says a new report by...

DUBAI: The emirate of Sharjah attracted massive demand at its first international debt sale yesterday, drawing investor orders worth more than ten times...

CARACAS: Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro is mulling a politically risky move to raise highly subsidised gasoline prices in Venezuela for the first time...

TEHRAN: Russia and Iran, both targeted by international sanctions squeezing their economies, set the stage yesterday for a strategic partnership aimed at vastly...

TAIPEI: Taiwan and China resumed talks yesterday at an undisclosed location on a goods free trade agreement, sparking a protest against secrecy by...

A sold sign is displayed in front of a house in Toronto. Experts ranging from Fitch Ratings and Morningstar to the International Monetary...

A farmer works in a field surrounded by electricity pylons in Ratcliffe-on-Soar, in central England, yesterday. Britain risks an electricity crisis this winter...

LONDON: New European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker handed Britain supervision of EU financial services yesterday, offering an olive branch to a country that...

Doha: Qatar Exchange index closed slightly lower at 14,027.46 points, down 19.15 points, or 0.14 percent, when trading closed yesterday. The trading value...

NEW DELHI: India insisted yesterday it would not endorse a landmark global trade pact unless it is allowed to subsidise food for its...

TRIPOLI: Libya said yesterday it expects oil production to reach 1.5 million barrels per day by year-end, with output quadrupled since the beginning...

ISTANBUL: The Turkish economy slowed sharply to 2.1 percent growth in the second quarter, partly because of rate rises to defend the lira,...