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  26 Jan 2018 - 2:37 The Peninsula Doha: Public Works Authority (Ashghal) announced yesterday that the south exit on Umm Lekhba (Landmark) interchange, which leads to Al Shamal Road will be closed starting from tomorrow. Road users coming from Al Markhiya Interchange on Al Markhiya Street and heading towards Doha should continue straight on Al Markhiya Street until reaching the newly constructed...

  26 Jan 2018 - 2:37 Mona Mohammed Al Kuwari (right), Executive Vice-President of the Scientific Excellence Awards, with Hassan Abdullah Al Mohammadi, Chairman of the executive committee of the award, at the event. PIC: Abdul Basit / The Peninsula By Sanaullah Ataullah / The Peninsula Doha: The organising committee of the Scientific Excellence Awards announced the winners of 11th edition of the...

  26 Jan 2018 - 15:10 The Peninsula Doha: Qatar announced Friday that Qatari-US strategic dialogue will begin on Tuesday, January 30, in the U.S. capital Washington. A high-level delegation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs representing Qatar will be participating in the dialogue led by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, the Ministry of Defense led by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister...

26 January 2018 On Thursday morning, Donald Trump is expected to make his debut at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Ahead of Trump’s arrival, world leaders have essentially used their speeches to take turns shading the 45th president’s “America First” approach. On Wednesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that, as a country that wants to help “solve the problems of the world,”...

19 Laura Plummer was sentenced to three years in prison for taking Tramadol tablets into Egypt CREDIT:TWITTER  Telegraph Reporters  26 JANUARY 2018 • 8:51AM ABritish woman jailed in Egypt over painkillers is reportedly preparing to be freed within the next two days. Laura Plummer, 33, from Hull, was sentenced to three years in prisonfor taking 290 Tramadol tablets into the country. But, according to The Sun, her family...

Missing Japanese mafia boss arrested after tattoos go viral   The 74-year-old accused of a gang murder in Japan 15 years ago was arrested in Thailand CREDIT: REUTERS  Nicola Smith  11 JANUARY 2018 • 6:11PM Thai police have arrested a retired Japanese crime boss who was on the run for 15 years, after his elaborate tattoos went viral on Facebook. Shigeharu Shirai, 72, a leading figure...

View photos   The legend of Padmaavati simply doesn’t suit the zeitgeist. More It seemed futile to weigh in on the violent bellicose protest against the cinematic version of the legend of Padmaavati or Rani Padmini. It was the same old, same old debate of freedom of expression vs people’s sentiments vs historical fact vs creative licence. All of it being manipulated towards some...

A Madhya Pradesh police team came across illegal mining operations in Sindh River and immediately started seizing the digging machines when the goons reached the spot and outnumbered the few policemen. More Bhopal: Members of the sand mafia made a daring murder attempt on an inspector in Bhind district in Madhya Pradesh by trying to run him over with a sand-digging machine...

  Image copyrightITALIAN POLICEImage captionThe raids were carried out in several Italian cities Thirty-three people have been arrested in Italy on suspicion of being members of the Chinese mafia, police say. The early morning raids targeted a group accused of controlling the transport across Europe of products made in China and by Chinese in Italy. The "China Truck" operation was part of an...

People gather at the site of twin car bombs in Benghazi, Libya, Jan. 23, 2018. Share Print Twin car bombings in Benghazi, Libya, killed at least 33 people and wounded dozens more Tuesday. The first car blew up outside a mosque in the al-Salmani neighborhood. A second bomb went off at the same spot about 30 minutes later with the apparent intention of...

© AFP 2018/ US AIR FORCE MILITARY & INTELLIGENCE 04:23 24.01.2018Get short URL 330 The US has redeployed a squadron of A-10s to Afghanistan to boost joint efforts against the Taliban, particularly targeting the group’s drug facilities. The deployment comes as the anti-Daesh campaign in Syria and Iraq scales down and as demand for precision strikes and close air support increases in Afghanistan under US President Donald Trump's South Asia strategy. The...

© Sputnik/ Vladimir Astapkovich TECH 02:09 24.01.2018Get short URL 210 In the last 10 years, hackers have stolen $1.2 billion worth of the cryptocurrencies bitcoin and ether, according to Lex Sokolin, global director of fintech strategy at Autonomous Research LLP. "It looks like crypto-hacking is a $200 million annual revenue industry," Sokolin said, adding that cybercriminals have stolen more than 14 percent of the bitcoin and ether supply over the...

© AFP 2018/ DPA / BERND WUESTNECK EUROPE 16:35 24.01.2018Get short URL Topic: Europe's Refugee and Migrant Crisis (72)  0 28 In Sweden, war crimes are handled by a special police commission, which saw a drastic surge in suspected war criminals, the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported. In 2014, it received 12 notifications from the Swedish Migration Board; this number jumped to 52 in 2017. By contrast,...

© Sputnik/ Dmitry Astakhov MIDDLE EAST 17:05 24.01.2018(updated 17:08 24.01.2018)Get short URL 6549 On Tuesday, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) held a session aimed at assessing the progress Israel made during its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a UN-backed process designed to assess the human rights record of a state and make recommendations for improvement. In the course of the struggle between the Israelis and...