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HH the Emir Receives Written Message from Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Doha, January 05 (QNA) - HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani received a written message from Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan containing an invitation to HH The Emir to attend the...

Emir Meets Head of British Criminal Justice Doha, January 05 (QNA) - HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani met here Monday morning at his Emiri Diwan office with Head of Criminal Justice and President of the Courts of England and Wales Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd and his accompanying delegation on the occasion of their visit to the country. ...

The selfie taken moments before AirAsia takeoff As they went aboard the aircraft on Dec.28, bound for a New Year's Eve break in Singapore, 23-year-old Hendra Gunawan Syawal and three of his friends paused for a moment to take a photo. (AFP) Indonesian Yunita Syawal first feared that her brother was on AirAsia Flight 8501 when she was sent a selfie...

Egyptian police killed outside Coptic church Coptic Orthodox Christian pray during a religious session by father Makary at St Mark Cathedral in Cairo. Two Egyptian policemen were shot dead on Tuesday as they stood guard at a Coptic Christian church in a city south of Cairo, witnesses and a local security source said. The policemen were killed instantly after being shot...

Kurdish fighters advance against IS in Syria's Kobani Kurdish fighters have captured a vital zone in the Syrian border town of Kobani after fierce clashes against "Islamic State" militants, a monitoring group says. They were backed by US-led airstrikes. Kurdish forces fighting jihadist militants from the "Islamic State" (IS) group have seized a vital district housing security and government facilities in...

German politicians condemn PEGIDA anti-Islamization movement Dozens of German celebrities have spoken out against a series of anti-Islamist protests. They were united in denouncing the populist "PEGIDA" movement, the morning after the latest demonstrations. Former Chancellors Helmut Schmidt and Gerhard Schröder were among the 50 well-known Germans who spoke out against PEGIDA in the first three pages of the mass-circulation "Bild"...

Jourdan Dunn Covers February Vogue BRITISH model Jourdan Dunn basks in spring sunlight on the cover of February's Vogue, out this Friday. Wearing a pale yellow and orange Prada dress and her short bobbed hair in soft curls, Dunn was photographed by Patrick Demarchelier and styled by Vogue's Kate Phelan for the shoot.   Source News: Vogue Photographer: Emma Summerton

Nasser Al Attiyah Wins First Stage of Dakar Rally Buenos Aires, January 04 (QNA) - Qatar's Nasser Al Attiyah in a Mini has won the first stage of the Dakar Rally between Buenos Aires and Villa Carlos Paz as the annual race got underway. Al Attiyah, who won the title in 2011, clocked 1 hour 12 minutes for the 170...

Police "no longer suspect arson" at Eskilstuna mosque Police now believe that a fire that broke out at a mosque in Eskilstuna, west of Stockholm, on Christmas Day, was not arson, says a source to TV4. The anonymous police source says to TV4 the investigation is now working on the assumption the fire was an accident, and may have been started...

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg starts reading program Mark Zuckerberg wants to add a little more “book” to Facebook. The Facebook founder and CEO announced on his page recently that he has vowed to read a book every other week in 2015, with an emphasis on learning about different beliefs, cultures and technologies.     Read the full text news resource site… Source News: Alarabiya

Indonesia naval captain says may have located missing plane's tail section (Reuters) - An Indonesian naval patrol vessel has found what could be the tail of a crashed AirAsia passenger jet, the section where the crucial black box voice and flight data recorders are located, officials said on Monday. News of the possible breakthrough came as the transport ministry in Jakarta...

Libyan planes bomb oil tanker in Islamist-held port A MiG-21 fighter jet belonging to forces loyal to former general Khalifa Haftar takes off from a base on the outskirts of Al Sidra oil port, in Ras Lanuf Dec. 20, 2014. (Reuters) The air force of Libya's internationally recognized government said Monday that it carried out a deadly weekend air strike on...

Two Saudi border guards killed on Iraq frontier The attack happened in the Northern Borders Province at about 4:30 am local time. (Al Arabiya) Two Saudi Arabian border guards including a senior officer were killed and a third was injured on the kingdom's frontier with Iraq following a “terrorist” attack, the Interior Ministry said on Monday. The unidentified attackers opened fire at...

Boston bombing: Life, death and a fair trial Ahead of the Marathon bombing trial, prosecutors are confident they have a watertight case. But controversy is raging on questions of life, death and fairness. DW explored the arguments with three law professors. Dzokhar Tsarnaev could face the death penalty The state has repeatedly resisted attempts by death penalty supporters to reintroduce capital punishment....