HH the Emir Addresses Arab Summit in Jordan
Dead Sea, Jordan, March 29 (QNA) – HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani delivered a speech at the 28th Ordinary Session of the Summit-level Meeting of the Council of the Arab League which was held today at the King Hussein bin Talal Convention Centre in the Dead Sea area in Jordan. In the […]
Prime Minister Meets UK Home Secretary
London, March 29 (QNA) – HE Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al-Thani met at the Home Office in London on Wednesday with UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd. Talks during the meeting dealt with bilateral relations between the State of Qatar and the United Kingdom, especially in the field […]
Prime Minister Meets UK Foreign Secretary
London, March 29 (QNA) – HE Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al-Thani met, at his residence in London on Wednesday, with UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, on the occasion of the Qatar-UK Business and Investment Forum held in London and Birmingham. Talks during the meeting dealt with bilateral […]
HH the Emir Participates in Opening Session of Arab League Summit in Jordan
Dead Sea, March 29 (QNA) – HH the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani participated along with Their Majesties and Highnesses the leaders of the Arab States in the opening session of the 28th Ordinary Session of the Council of the League of Arab States at the Summit Level (Amman 2017), which kicked […]
Meningitis outbreak kills nearly 270 in Nigeria: officials
Author: AFPWed, 2017-03-29 11:43ID: 1490792702686500800 ABUJA: Nearly 270 people, most of them children, have died in the past five months during the latest meningitis outbreak to hit Nigeria, public health officials said Wednesday. “Presently we have 1,828 suspected cases… and we have 269 deaths in about 15 states,” Olubunmi Ojo of the National Center for Disease Control […]
UK police, Muslim youths to link hands to mark London attack
Author: Associated PressWed, 2017-03-29 03:00ID: 1490792120626423700 LONDON: British police officers will be linking hands with members of a Muslim youth group on a London bridge to mark last week’s attack outside Parliament that killed four people. The Metropolitan Police Federation says the intention is to link hands across Westminster Bridge from the south to the north at […]
Indian police set up security after mob attack on Africans
Author: AFPWed, 2017-03-29 09:23ID: 1490791323176355000 NEW DELHI: Police stepped up security Wednesday in a northern Indian city where a mob attacked African students following the death of a local teenager from a suspected drug overdose. Five people were arrested over the assault in Greater Noida in which the students were beaten with sticks and metal chairs, with […]
China still committed to Paris climate change deal -foreign ministry
Author: ReutersWed, 2017-03-29 11:20ID: 1490791110396326600 BEIJING: China is still committed to the Paris climate change accord agreed in 2015, foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump signed overnight an order to dismantle Obama-era climate change regulations. “We still uphold that all sides should move with the times, grasp the opportunities, fulfill […]
Grenade attack as Bangladesh police raid Islamist hideout
Author: AFPWed, 2017-03-29 10:21ID: 1490791110566327000 DAHAKA: Bangladesh police came under grenade attack when they raided two suspected Islamist extremist hideouts on Wednesday, days after a major anti-militant drive in which 10 people were killed. Police said counter-terrorism officers raided two houses in Moulvibazar district in the northeast after receiving a tip-off that extremists were sheltering there. A […]
Meningitis outbreak kills nearly 270 in Nigeria: officials
Author: AFPWed, 2017-03-29 11:43ID: 1490791110466326800ABUJAH: Nearly 270 people, most of them children, have died in the past five months during the latest meningitis outbreak to hit Nigeria, public health officials said Wednesday.“Presently we have 1,828 suspected cases… and we have 269 deaths in about 15 states,” Olubunmi Ojo of the National Center for Disease Control told local […]
