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Mowasalat, QNB team up to activate Apple Pay and Google Pay for Karwa taxis

Mowasalat (Karwa) and QNB Group have collaborated towards enhancing...

Remote chance of scattered rain Saturday, strong winds offshore

Weather inshore until 6pm on Saturday will be partly cloudy to cloudy...

Shura Council takes part in parliamentary seminar

The Shura Council participated on Friday in a parliamentary seminar...

Doha 2030

Doha 2030 team in Oman to boost Asian Games bid

A high-profile Qatari delegation comprising former and current...

Timothy Lenderking

US strategic dialogue identifies new opportunities in the Gulf

US strategic dialogues have identified new opportunities to support...


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Police officers in riot gear check a car for protesting farmers at a state border on a national high

India's Modi says government committed to farmers' welfare

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured farmers on Saturday that reforms in the agrarian sector were aimed at helping them as thousands of farmers continued protests against three new laws to overhaul procurement and sale of produce

Municipal workers clean and remove debris along a street after multiple rockets were fired in the Af

One killed in Kabul rocket attack

A series of rockets struck the Afghan capital on Saturday, killing one person and wounding two, the interior ministry said, the second such attack to rock Kabul in less than a month.

US Supreme Court

US Supreme Court swiftly ends Trump-backed Texas bid to upend election results

The US Supreme Court on Friday rejected a long-shot lawsuit by Texas and backed by President Donald Trump seeking to throw out voting results in four states, dealing him a likely fatal blow in his quest to undo his election loss to President-elect Joe Biden


Region
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Hanan Ashrawi

Senior PLO official Ashrawi to resign, calls for political reforms

Veteran Palestinian negotiator and women’s rights advocate Hanan...

UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash

UAE, Egypt hail efforts to resolve Gulf dispute

The UAE said on Tuesday it supports Saudi efforts to end a three-year...

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Hamas receives virus test kits, resumes Gaza screening

Hamas said yesterday it had received nearly 20,000 coronavirus test...

Kuwaiti candidate and former parliament speaker Marzouq al-Ghanem celebrates with his supporters fol

Kuwait opposition makes strong gains in parliamentary elections

Kuwait’s opposition took nearly half of parliament’s seats in weekend...


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Vietnam’s Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh (left) and Britain’s International Trade Secr

Britain finalises free trade agreement with Vietnam

Britain and Vietnam yesterday finalised a free trade agreement, the second deal London has reached in Southeast Asia in as many days while deadlock continues over post-Brexit European Union arrangements.

A customer looks over an Apple iPhone at a store in San Francisco. “This year, we kicked off the dev

Apple starts work on its own cellular modem, top chip executive says

Apple Inc has started building its own cellular modem for future devices, a move that would replace components from Qualcomm Inc, Apple’s top chip executive told staff on Thursday.

BoE governor Andrew Bailey said the central bank had done all it could to mitigate risks from a no-d

Bank of England readies armoury to deal with any Brexit disruption

The Bank of England took steps yesterday to keep banks lending through 2021 as Britain grapples with the Covid-19 pandemic and braces for any market disruption from a big change in the UK’s trading relationship with the European Union.

Pedestrians wearing protective masks walk through the Lujiazui financial district in Shanghai. The w

Big investors split China bets from emerging markets

The widening economic gulf between China and other emerging markets is prompting some of the world’s largest investors to change how they allocate money to the asset class.

The Bombay Stock Exchange building in Mumbai. The Sensex closed up 139.13 points to 46,099.01, while

Sensex caps its sixth straight week of gains; rupee strengthens

India’s benchmark equity index completed its sixth consecutive week of gains as foreign investors continued to load up on local stocks.

An external view of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange building. The Hang Seng index closed up 0.4% to 26,

Asia markets mostly up, but stalled stimulus talks offset vaccines

Asian markets mostly rose yesterday but stalled US stimulus talks and rising virus infections continue to counter vaccine optimism, while the pound struggled after Boris Johnson warned Britain could crash out of the European Union without a trade deal.

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