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Turkish real estate developers are...

Dealership unveils the Ferrari 812 Superfast

Alfardan Sports Motors, the official dealer for Ferrari in Qatar,...

Toyoto bags Mecoty awards with Prius and Fortuner

Toyota has once again achieved success in the Middle East Car of the...

Kalyan customers could win Audi A3s

Kalyan Jewellers has unveiled a campaign wherein customers will get...

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FM receives Australian delegation

HE the Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani met...

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ElJaish, QF team up to host football tournament for 11-year-old players

Eljaish Sports Club, in co-operation with Qatar Foundation (QF), has...


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Iraq

Qatari hunting party kidnapped in Iraq freed: ministry

A Qatari hunting party kidnapped in southern Iraq in 2015 has been...

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Clashes at protest to support jailed Palestinian hunger strikers

Several dozen Palestinian protesters clashed yesterday with Israeli...

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Syrian army advances on vital highway in rebel-held Hama

The Syrian army yesterday advanced into the town of Taybet Al Imam in...

Mosul

Iraqi forces retake more areas in west Mosul

Iraqi forces retook two more neighbourhoods in west Mosul on...


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Eman Ahmed

500kg Egyptian sheds half her weight after surgery in India

The "world's heaviest woman" has shed half her weight -- around a quarter of a tonne -- in the two months she's been in India for treatment, doctors said.

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Arkansas executes first inmate in 12 years

Arkansas executed its first inmate in 12 years on Thursday after a protracted legal battle that questioned aspects of the use of the death penalty in the United States, which fell to a quarter-century low in 2016.

MH370

MH370 'mostly likely' lies north of search zone: experts

Missing flight MH370 "most likely" lies north of a former search zone in the remote Indian Ocean, Australian authorities said, in a new report that offers hope the plane may one day be found.


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Turkey sticks to growth forecasts, despite IMF downgrade for 2017

Turkey is sticking to a forecast of more than 4% growth this year – far above what is seen as attainable by investors and the IMF – betting that a loan guarantee programme will help the economy, an adviser to President Tayyip Erdogan said.

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Merger wave could cut Qatar lenders to four: Seetharaman

Qatar will likely see more consolidation in its banking sector this year as there isn’t room for 18 lenders, according to Doha Bank chief executive officer Raghavan Seetharaman.

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Non-Opec oil cuts compliance to improve over next 2 months: BMI

Non-Opec compliance with oil output cuts will improve over the next two months with Russia driving the largest reductions in volume terms, BMI Research has said in a report.

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Gulf markets fall with oil

Profit-taking and weak first-quarter earnings weighed on Gulf stock markets yesterday, with Saudi Arabia’s index pulled lower by petrochemical shares after oil prices fell sharply, but Dubai’s Union Properties and Abu Dhabi’s TAQA bucked the trend.

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US airlines get break as Emirates pares flights on Trump bans

US airlines stand to benefit from flight cutbacks by Dubai-based Emirates, which blamed President Donald Trump’s travel restrictions for hurting demand from Middle Eastern passengers.

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Beyond China, carmakers seek new drivers of Asian growth

Southeast Asia’s potential beckons as global automakers look beyond China’s massive market to extend their sales boom in the region, but executives say they face a struggle to match the explosive Chinese growth.

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