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Tiger on the loose in Doha traffic jam

DOHA: A tiger was spotted wandering through a traffic jam on one of Doha's busiest roads yesterday, and government officials said they would investigate the incident after footage appeared online. Pictures and video showing the tiger roaming among cars on the Doha Expressway flooded social media in the tiny Gulf country. Footage including a 20-second video on YouTube and Twitter showed the big cat running through lanes of heavy traffic,...

Iran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Reza Najafi

Iran conducts missile tests defying sanctions - US reviewing incident, formulating response

Iran’s Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Reza NajafiTEHRAN: Iran conducted multiple ballistic missile tests yesterday in what it said was a display of "deterrent power," defying US sanctions imposed earlier this year aimed at disrupting its missile program. State media announced that short-, medium- and long-range precision guided missiles were fired from several sites to show the country's "all-out readiness to...

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France still struggles with violence against women

PARIS: A radio campaign detailing harrowing experiences and a call from President Francois Hollande to "face up to harassment" show that France still has much to do tackle the widespread denial of violence against women. In one of the radio spots that began airing at the weekend, a woman identified as Anna describes how her husband Louis came into the bathroom as she was preparing to go to bed."He forced himself on me, he raped me. It was the...

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Bahrain Shiite clerics demand equal rights

DUBAI: Dozens of Shiite clerics called yesterday for equality in Sunni-ruled Bahrain, also insisting that there had never been a call for sectarianism by their majority community in the Gulf kingdom. A month-long Shiite-led uprising rocked the small state in February 2011, taking its cue from Arab Spring protests and calling for political reforms. But authorities quelled the protests, backed by Saudi-led troops from Gulf countries that accuse...

NOIDA: Policemen are deployed near a house where a 15-year-old girl was set on fire after being raped at Tigri village. — AFP

15-year-old raped, set on fire outside New Delhi

NOIDA: Policemen are deployed near a house where a 15-year-old girl was set on fire after being raped at Tigri village. — AFPNEW DELHI: A 15-year-old girl was fighting for her life in a New Delhi hospital yesterday after being raped and set on fire on the rooftop terrace of her family’s home in a village outside the city, police said. The attack is just one of several recently reported cases of rapes of women or children in India -...

DHAKA: This file photo taken on November 2, 2014 shows Bangladeshi Jamaat-e-Islami party leader, Mir Quasem Ali waving his hand as he enters a van at the International Crimes Tribunal court. — AFP

Bangladesh's top court to uphold Islamist tycoon's death sentence - 'He was the main financier of the party '

DHAKA: This file photo taken on November 2, 2014 shows Bangladeshi Jamaat-e-Islami party leader, Mir Quasem Ali waving his hand as he enters a van at the International Crimes Tribunal court. — AFPDHAKA: Bangladesh's Supreme Court yesterday upheld the death sentence of Jamaat-e-Islami's chief financier, imposed for war crimes, in a major blow to the country's biggest Islamist party. Mir Quasem Ali, a shipping and real estate tycoon, was...

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BASRA: A general view shows pipelines in the newly opened section of the oil refinery of Zubair, southwest of Basra in southern Iraq.

Oil edges lower after Kuwait dents hopes - Kuwait producing 3 million bpd: Oil Minister

BASRA: A general view shows pipelines in the newly opened section of the oil refinery of Zubair, southwest of Basra in southern Iraq.LONDON: Oil prices edged lower yesterday after Kuwait said it would only agree to an output freeze if all major producers take part and Goldman Sachs analysts poured cold water over the prospects for a sustained rally. Brent crude futures were down 12 cents at $40.72 a barrel at 0922 GMT, hovering above the $40...

A Palestinian farmer tends to his land in the village of Al-Nassariyah

Female farmers in 90 nations face discriminatory land laws

A Palestinian farmer tends to his land in the village of Al-NassariyahTORONTO: Women in more than 90 countries still lack equal rights to own land, hurting food production and efforts to tackle poverty, Rwanda’s former agriculture minister said. Nations in eastern and southern Africa have considerably improved their laws to grant land ownership rights to female farmers, Agnes Kalibata said. But many states in North Africa and South Asia...

New York police officers stand outside the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue while monitoring a demonstration

Does an extremist’s iPhone contain ‘cyber pathogen’? - Mass killer’s phone might have been ‘used as weapon’

New York police officers stand outside the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue while monitoring a demonstrationSAN FRANCISCO: A local prosecutor has offered an unusual justification for forcing Apple to help hack an iPhone used by a San Bernardino mass killer: The phone might have been “used as a weapon” to introduce malicious software to county computer systems. San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael Ramos acknowledged to The Associated...

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Vietnam finds twins with different fathers

HANOI, Vietnam: Vietnam has identified an extremely rare case of bi-paternal twinstwins with different fathers-a professor at a DNA testing lab in Hanoi told AFP yesterday. A set of twins born to a Vietnamese couple, whose names have not been released, were recently taken for testing because of stark differences in the children’s appearances, according to local reports. “Our Center for Genetic Analysis and Technology lab has tested and found...

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Indian state of Punjab reports 61 Swine flu deaths

NEW DELHI: A high level health official in the government of north-western Indian state of Punjab announced yesterday that the death toll due to Swine Flu in the state has reached 61 people in the last two months alone.The Press Trust of India quoting Punjab health ministry’s Nodal Officer for Swine Flu Dr Gagandeep Singh Grover as saying that “as 30 people succumbed to death due to H1N1 virus in the last one month alone, the death toll from...

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KUWAIT: Photo provided by the Al-Zour oil Refinery shows a view of the facility, in Al-Zour, south of Kuwait City. – AFP

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