Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) outpatient clinics will remain open today. The clinics will close for Eid holidays from tomorrow and re-open on August 12. At Hamad General Hospital, patients will be able to refill

A judge has remanded in custody a convicted child rapist who was arrested in Spain after a controversial pardon by Morocco's king was revoked in the face of angry protests. The judge ruled that Daniel

A fresh round of intense diplomatic efforts are under way in Egypt to broker a peaceful end to the crisis sparked by the military's overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi. The European Union's Middle East envoy

The population in illegal West Bank settlements has grown twice as much as in Israel itself, military radio said, quoting official statistics. The figures show an increase of 7,700 illegal settlers in the Occupied West

Tunisia's ruling Ennahda party leader Rachid Ghannouchi has raised the prospect of a referendum as a way out of the country's political crisis, but has also warned against the opposition’s efforts to topple the government. Ghannouchi

Russia's Supreme Court has reduced former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky's jail sentence by two months, his legal team has said. The court on Tuesday cut the sentence of Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev

The military trial of US army officer Nidal Hasan, charged with killing 13 people at an army post in Texas state, is set to begin on Tuesday. Hasan does not deny that he carried out

The United States evacuated dozens of its personnel from the Yemeni capital, after both the US and United Kingdom told their citizens to leave due to the threat of "terrorist attacks." The US citizens were

Law-enforcement officials say their clampdown on illegal private taxis has borne encouraging results as more than 300 operators of the shady service and their cars have fallen in their dragnet in recent months.

Around 40 flights were cancelled as operations at the international airport at Kochi, Kerala, in south India, were suspended till this evening after water entered the parking bay and taxi way due to torrential