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The Gulf Cooperation Council expressed rejection to foreign interference in the Iraqi crisis, in reference to Iran’s direct involvement in Iraq’s war against ISIS, during a meeting held in Riyadh on Thursday. “The GCC Arab States confirm their support for Iraq's unity and territorial integrity and for the Iraqi government to help it for maintaining security and stability in Iraq,...

Talks aimed at pulling Yemen out of crisis are open to the Shia Houthi militia which seized power in Sanaa last month, Qatar's Foreign Minister HE Dr Khalid bin Mohamed al-Attiyah said on Thursday. The Houthis have opposed any change in venue for UN-brokered talks, which broke down after Western-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi escaped from house arrest in Sanaa...

Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy, by Frank Close A biography of a secretive scientist comes with a cast worthy of a le Carré novel, says Jon Turney At the midpoint of the last century, memories of two world wars were receding but the mutual suspicions of two great power blocs threatened a third. When Bruno...

The major fashion weeks ended in Paris Wednesday following a month long parade of shows and presentations in New York, London, Milan and Paris. Stores are placing their orders now, and the clothes will hit shelves starting in June and July. It is surprising to see a trend stick around this long, but 1970s fever continues. A few important runway...

Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani receiving Albanian President Bujar Nishani at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. They discussed bilateral relations and ways to enhance them, in addition to a number of issues of common concern. HH the Deputy Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani and a number of ministers attended the talks. Right: President Nishani bestowing on HH...

A new report has been released on the humanitarian crisis in Syria four years after the start of the country's civil war. It calls on the United Nations to show commitment to ending the Syrian conflict. With the Assad regime using barrel bombs on densely populated areas, killing scores of innocent civilians, and the Nusra Front and the terror of...

Saudi king Salman bin Abdulaziz issued a royal order on Wednesday relieving Housing Minister Shwaish bin Saud Dhwaihi al-Dhwaihi of his post and assigning Isam bin Saad bin Saeed, Minister of State and Member of the Cabinet, as Acting Minister of housing, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. “The concerned authorities were instructed to carry out the order with immediate effect,”...

Iraqi military forces and Shitte militias entered central Tikrit, declaring it “liberated” from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Tuesday, following 10 days of a major offensive on the hometown of former president Saddam Hussein. Iraqi forces have been closing in for days but had largely refrained from entering the city, launching only small-scale operations on the...

“Most of the kidney disorders are especially amongst people with chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension," Dr Hassan Ali al- Malki, head of Nephrology Department, explained in reply to a question from Gulf Times. At present, Qatar has 253 patients who need dialysis, he pointed out while announcing that HMC is marking World Kidney Day (WKD) on Thursday to...

Apple Gets Sweet Deals From Mall Operators Apple Inc. ’s huge gravitational pull on mall traffic is distorting the market for mall rents, winning the iPhone maker sweetheart deals and putting upward pressure on other tenants’ leases. In the past, malls typically operated according to a straightforward bargain. Department stores that anchored the ends of the malls either owned their own...

Chairman of the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) Dr. Ali bin Smaikh Al-Marri has called for strengthening the partnership between the NHRC and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). They also discussed a proposal to organize an International Conference on "the role of the Office of the High Commissioner for human rights in the...

A former Chechen police officer who admitted to taking part in the murder of Russian opposition activist Boris Nemtsov "likely confessed under torture", a member of the Kremlin's rights council told AFP Wednesday. "There are reasons that lead us to believe Zaur Dadayev confessed under torture," said Andrei Babushkin, adding he had seen "numerous wounds" on the body of the...

The 12 Tech Nuisances That Annoy Us Most: 1. Never ending Notifications 2. Battery Life Is Too Short 3. Updates Bog Down Old iPhones 4. Waiting for Android Updates 5. Privacy as a Luxury 6. Printers Are Still Terrible 7. Die, Passwords, Die 8. Kickstarter Isn't a Store 9. Inaccurate Fitness Biometrics 10. App Addiction 11. Email: Older, but Not Wiser 12. Baffling Bills Read the full text news in resource site… Source...