US President Barack Obama has warned the Palestinian government of Mahmoud Abbas that 'there will be consequences' if he declines to open direct talks with...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The United Arab Emirates says it plans to block some messaging and web services on BlackBerry smart phones beginning...

– The Syrian-Saudi-Lebanese summit received considerable attention by Arab mass media, describing it as a historical summit and focusing on its closing statement.

- A $600 million sale of bonds by Egypt's state-owned National Bank of Egypt (NBE) has been fully covered, a source with knowledge of the...

filed a motion last week for reconsideration of a recent ruling by a US judge in which the bank was sanctioned for allegedly failing to...

Arab stock markets rallied this week, drawing momentum from global market gains, better world recovery outlook and stable oil prices, financial analysts said yesterday.They expected...

Aug 1, 2010 - 09:42 - WAM Abu Dhabi, August 1st, 2010 (WAM) -- Lebanon's future was at the centre of a very senior meeting...

The 37-year-old, who was born in Iran but is now a Canadian citizen, was sentenced to four years and three months in jail. Prosecutors had...

Noam Sobel, professor of neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, said his team was able to build a "sniff controller" by...

An Israeli air strike has killed a Hamas commander and rocket maker in the Gaza Strip, the group said. Issa Batran was killed by a...

US President Barack Obama has told Iran to immediately release three Americans who have been detained for a year after straying across the border while...

A 5.7-magnitude earthquake hit the north east of the country, injuring around 170 people, state radio said. The tremor hit the city of Torbat-e Heydariyeh,...

There are few 94-year-olds whose work remains as controversial as that of Bernard Lewis. The Stoke Newington-born academic, long resident in the US and currently...

Hadi Al-Amiri, a parliamentarian who heads the Badr Organization, the former armed wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council's (ISCI), said the United States was...

KHARTOUM: Sudan said on Saturday it would monitor travel by UN/African Union peacekeepers in Darfur — a day after the UN Security Council extended the...

JEDDAH: The soft launch of the Saher Traffic Monitoring System will start in Makkah, Madinah and Jeddah on Sunday to test the system before it...

BEIRUT: The ruler of Qatar on Saturday toured south Lebanese border towns that his energy-rich Gulf country helped rebuild after the 2006 Israeli bombardment, marking...

ABHA: A 30-year-old woman home science teacher enthralled some 700 women with a spectacular dance that fused traditional Arabic dance forms with more modern types...

ROME: Iraq is now among the world's top executioners for the first time since the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein, an Italian anti-death penalty group...

The blast took place on Saturday near the municipal offices in Rashid district just south of the Iraqi capital, as soldiers were responding to an...

- Qatar's emir on Saturday made a high-profile visit to south Lebanon, a Hizbollah stronghold destroyed in a 2006 war with Israel and whose rebuilding...

JEDDAH: The International Islamic Relief Organization-Saudi Arabia (IIROSA) made a remarkable achievement by obtaining membership in the United Nation’s Department of Public Information (DPI).

July 31, 2010 The leaders of Syria and Saudi Arabia wrapped up a visit to Lebanon Friday, seeking to cool tensions over an...

New York: Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor who's pledged to donate his fortune to worthy causes, helped raise $4,500 (Dh16,525) for charity with the sale...

Dubai: I recently visited Egypt, Brunei and Sri Lanka and want to share some observations on Islamic finance and the halal industry from those countries....

Mumbai: There are signs of resistance building up to a stock rally in India after some disappointing quarterly earnings and a hawkish stance by the...

A Jeddah branch of the Saudi American Bank (Samba), one of the few Saudi banks that at the end of 2009 booked provisions higher...

Dubai : Musanada, the Abu Dhabi General Services company established by President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan in 2007 to support the...

Dubai: For 40 UAE national students enrolled at secondary and tertiary educational institutes across the country, this summer has been a period of continued learning...

Dubai: Kanoo Travel announced that it is partnering with STA Travel in Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE to capitalise on the expanding...

Abu Dhabi: A UAE delegation chaired by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) participated in the second Arab meeting held in Damascus to prepare for the...

Dubai : Kids Fashion Week begins today at Deira City Centre. It is a signature event of Dubai Summer Surprises (DSS) that brings some...

Dubai: Al Ansari Exchange, a Dubai-based provider of money remittances and foreign currency exchange services, has signed a strategic partnership with the National Bank of...

The Transocean Development Driller III drills the primary relief well as the Helix Energy Solutions Q4000 platform (left) gets set for the 'static kill'...

Mumbai : ICICI Bank, India's second-biggest lender, said first-quarter profit rose 17 per cent, as it cut provisions for bad loans and increased fee income...

Wilmington : AstraZeneca, which tentatively settled almost 4,000 product-liability cases last month involving its antipsychotic drug Seroquel through mediation, said it will keep terms of...

Dubai : Thiruvananthapuram-based Technopark, the largest IT Park in India with 4.5 million square feet of built-up area, has successfully completed 20 years of operations...

Under pressure Residential compound rents have dipped about 10 per cent, and apartments in completed towers at the Pearl have fallen by more than a...

The general rate of price declines in Doha is hard to gauge due to a lack of sales volumes, but rents at top-tier office ...

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