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Facebook launches service to help find missing children Facebook Inc. is working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to send the alerts to users’ mobile phones if they are in a search area where a child has been abducted. (Shutterstock) Facebook users in the U.S. will soon receive Amber Alerts to help find missing children who may be...

Flights of fancy at falcons festival Two new winners moved past the eighth round of the Hudud Al Tahaddi challenge yesterday at the sixth Qatar International Falcons and Hunting Festival taking place at Sabkhet Marmi in the Sealine area of Mesaieed. Falcons Marmi and Hazam, owned by Salem Mubarak Mohamed al-Shahwani and Saleh Nasser al-Shahwani respectively, managed to catch the homing...

Georgian President Meets Qatari Ambassador Tbilisi, January 13 (QNA) - Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili met here today with Qatar's Ambassador to Georgia HE Mohammed bin Khamis Al Kuwari on the occasion of the expiry of his tenure. HE ambassador Al Kuwari conveyed the greetings of HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani to President Margvelashvili and his wishes for the...

Teams arrive for Handball World Championship Brazil players arriving at Hamad International Airport yesterday for taking part in the Qatar 2015 men’s Handball World Championship starting tomorrow. Teams from 24 countries participate in the championship and the first match tomorrow will take place between Qatar and Brazil. The opening ceremony will be held at Lusail Hall, a stadium with a...

Europe faces greatest jihadist threat: Europol The head of Europe's police organization Europol said on Tuesday the continent was facing its greatest security threat in more than a decade. he head of Europe's police organization Europol said on Tuesday the continent was facing its greatest security threat in more than a decade, according to Reuters news agency. “It is certainly the most...

France votes to continue military campaign againist 'Islamic State' One house of French parliament has voted by an overwhelming margin to continue airstrikes against the terrorist group Islamic State. "France is at war with terrorism...not Muslims," the French PM told lawmakers. By a rather clearcut margin of 488 ballots to 1, with 13 abstentions, France's lower house of parliament on Tuesday...

Thousands flee Nigeria's border in 'matter of days' The UN says over 11,000 people have fled Nigeria's border following a recent campaign of violence by Boko Haram. The militia's assault in the northeast earlier this month may have been its worst massacre. The United Nations said on Tuesday that the latest wave of Boko Haram's "vicious, ruthless attacks" in northeastern Nigeria...

Egypt court overturns Mubarak jail sentence for graft An Egyptian court on Tuesday overturned a three-year prison sentence against ousted strongman Hosni Mubarak on corruption charges and ordered a retrial in the sole case still pending against him. In November, another court had dropped murder charges against the 86-year-old former leader over the deaths of protesters during the 2011 uprising that...

Pro-ISIS group hacks U.S. military social media A screenshot taken on Monday shows the hacked Centcom page The U.S. Central Command Twitter and YouTube accounts were hacked on Monday by people claiming to be Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) sympathizers, in a hacking described by a Pentagon official as “embarrassing.” “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the...

Coalition strikes pound ISIS targets in Syria, Iraq In this Oct. 20, 2014, file photo, thick smoke and flames from an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition rise in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border. (AP) U.S.-led coalition military forces launched a total of 27 air strikes on territories controlled by the...

Record turnout at Dresden PEGIDA rally sees more than 25,000 march More than 25,000 PEGIDA supporters have marched through Dresden in their biggest turnout yet. But some 9,000 counter protesters were also ready to take a stand, as DW's Kate Brady reports. What began as a quiet evening on the Elbe turned into the largest PEGIDA demonstration seen so far in...

Four Jewish victims of Paris attacks to be laid to rest in Israel The bodies of four victims killed in last week's shootings in Paris have arrived in Israel, where they will be laid to rest. They were shot in a hostage taking at a kosher supermarket at the end of last week. The bodies of four Jewish victims of an...

Report: Boko Haram attacks Cameroon Boko Haram, the Islamist group behind attacks in northeastern Nigeria, has reportedly struck again into neighboring Cameroon. A Nigerian archbishop has urged Europe to also help tackle insurgents terrorizing the region. The news agency AFP quoted Cameroonian official sources on Monday as saying that Boko Haram fighters had attacked a military base in the northwestern Cameroonian...

Stars champion #JeSuisCharlie at Golden Globes Amal and George Clooney were among a number of stars who remembered the Charlie Hebdo victims. Last week’s Paris attacks had a heavy presence in this year’s Golden Globes awards ceremony in Los Angeles where Hollywood’s stars carried signs reading “Je Suis Charlie,” in solidarity with those killed in an attack on a French...