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Yemeni parliament rejects President Hadi's resignation After the formal resignation of Yemen's government bemoaning "an unconstructive political maze," President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi said he was also standing down. Sanaa's parliament, however, refused his departure. The Yemeni parliament was due to hold an emergency session on Friday, after it rejected the president's resignation on Thursday evening. A government source said that Hadi's...

ECB's bond buy gets mixed response in Brussels The leaders of Italy and France will rejoice at the ECB's decision to buy the debt issued by their governments. But members of the European Parliament are skeptical the policy will lead Europe out of the crisis. The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, put on a cloak of silence following the...

Qatar , EU Discuss Preparations for Thirteenth UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Brussels, January 21 (QNA) - Advisor to HE Minister of Interior HE Major General Dr. Abdullah Yusuf Al Mal who is also Chairman of the Preparatory Committee of the Thirteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (Doha 2015), and his accompanying delegation...

Qatar fall short in big game against holders Spain This was the battle of the big boys at the 24th Men’s Handball World Championship and it was Spain who drew first blood when they defeated Qatar 28-25 in an intense contest yesterday at the Lusail Multipurpose Hall. In an end-to-end game, with both teams having qualified for the knockout stages,...

Qatar award to inspire region’s innovators Dr Abdul Sattar al-Taie: QNRF executive director; Dr Tarik Yousef: Silatech CEO and Supreme Committee secretary-general Hassan al-Thawadi speaking at the launch of the Challenge 22 Initiative at the Four Seasons Hotel yesterday. The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC), Silatech and Qatar National Research Fund have launched a new initiative to engage the...

Qatar's Foreign Minister Chairs GCC Ministerial Meeting Riyadh, January 21 (QNA) - Qatar's Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Dr. Khalid bin Mohammed Al-Attiyah chaired here today the GCC Extraordinary Ministerial Meeting. The meeting discussed the latest developments in the Republic of Yemen and ways of resolving the current crisis.     Read the full text news resource site… Source News: qna.org.qa

Aden airport reopens as Yemen crisis eases Members of the popular committee drive on the exterior of the airport in Yemen’s second city of Aden as they shut the airport in support of President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi on January 21, 2015. (AFP) Authorities in southern Yemen reopened Aden’s air and sea ports on Thursday, officials said, after President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi...

Katara to launch winter festival ‘Leshtah’ today Katara, the Cultural Village, is all set to launch the second edition of the winter festival “Leshtah” today. A number of public and community entities have come together to organise the five-day festival being held at Katara Esplanade. The Childhood Cultural Centre, Doha Youth Centre, Qatar Heritage and Identity Centre, Qatar Society of Al...

Oil export losses to reach $300 billion in Middle East Oil prices are now hovering near six-year lows amid expectations of an abundance of supply tied to unexpectedly high production of U.S. shale crude. (Shutterstock) Losses from lower oil exports should sap up to $300 billion from economies in the Middle East and Central Asia this year, as countries in the...

Report: Torture is a European problem too A day after Amnesty International published a report on Europe's collusion with the CIA's torture program, the Council of Europe published its own shocking survey of abuse in detention centers across the continent. Guards in several European countries carried out reprisals against detainees who gave an interview to the Council of Europe's Committee for...

Kyiv forces withdrawal from Donetsk airport An explosion at a trolleybus stop in war-torn eastern Ukraine's Donetsk, killing at least a half a dozen people, an official has said. Kyiv forces have also reportedly withdrawn from the city's long-contested airport. At least six civilians in the eastern Ukrainian city Donetsk were killed on Thursday when an explosion from a shell or...

Kerry: Yemen president agrees to Houthi demands Houthi fighters ride a truck while patrolling a street in Sanaa Jan. 21, 2015. (Reuters) Besieged Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi is accepting many demands of the Shiite Houthi rebel militia for constitutional change and wider power sharing after they took over his palace and replaced guards outside his private residence in Sanaa, top...

Kurdish forces cut key road in north Iraq drive Kurdish Peshmerga fighters keep watch during the battle with ISIS militants on the outskirts of Mosul January 21, 2015. (Reuters) Kurdish forces launched an offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) jihadist group on Wednesday, cutting a road linking two of the main areas it holds in north Iraq,...

HE Al Rumaihi Meets Iranian Assistant Foreign Minister Doha, January 21 (QNA) - Foreign Minister's Assistant for Foreign Affairs, HE Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Rumaihi, met here on Wednesday with the Iranian Assistant Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs, Abdallahaan Amir Hussein. Talks during the meeting dealt with bilateral relations and means of enhancing them, in addition to a number...