Doha 15 February 2017 Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, President and CEO of Qatar Petroleum received today Isam Al Zadjali, CEO of Oman Oil Company, the Sultanate of Oman’s energy investment arm at the Qatar Petroleum headquarters, Doha. Discussions during the meeting centered on the latest developments in the regional and international oil and gas markets and...

Doha 15 Feb. 2017 Prominent government officials, industry professionals, policy makers and academics gathered at The Energy and Economic Diversification Policies Roundtable, organized by Qatar Leadership Centre (QLC) and Rice University’s Baker Institute in cooperation with the Ministry of Energy and Industry and Qatar University. The roundtable commenced today for two days at the Four...

Doha 15 Feb 2017 Turkey once again stressed on creating safe zones in Syria to allow the return of Syrian refugees back to their home country. Mouloud Jawish Ihsanoglu, Foreign Minister of Turkey said today in Doha that 'Establishing safe areas in Syria is an idea which should be supported by all and once they...

Seoul (AFP) 14 Feb. 2017 North Korean female agents operating in Malaysia have reportedly assassinated the half-brother of the North's leader, Kim Jong-Un, a one-time heir apparent who became a critic of the Stalinist regime. South Korean media said Tuesday that Kim Jong-Nam was killed with poisoned needles at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Officials in...

Washington 14 February 2017 Yahoo News/AP President Donald Trump's embattled national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned late Monday night, following reports that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and other officials about his contacts with Russia. His departure upends Trump's senior team after less than one month in office. In a resignation letter, Flynn...

Lahore 13 Feb 2016 (APP): Thirteen persons including two senior police officers were killed while 86 others sustained multiple injuries when a suicide attacker blew himself up at the Charing Cross, The Mall here on Monday. According to Rescue Division in Lahore, a powerful explosion occurred during a protest by various pharmaceutical bodies including Homeopathic...

Quetta 13 Feb 2017 (APP): At least two personnel of police were martyred and 12 others sustained injuries in an explosion at Sariab Raod near Karachi Bus Terminal of provincial capital on Monday. According to police sources, police and bomb disposal squad team were defusing the planted Improvised explosive devices (IED) which went off near...

Gaza, February 11 (QNA) Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza in collaboration with the Palestinian Ministry of Public Works and Housing held a ceremony on Saturday to hand over the apartments of the second phase of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani residential city, Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip. Ceremony was attended by Mohammed...

Karachi 11 Feb 2017 (APP): ' A strong and economically developed Pakistan is “an approaching reality” due to strong counter terrorism measures, internal reforms, active pursuit of energy and infrastructure projects and prudent economic policies pursued by the present government,' told by Sartaj Aziz, Advisor to Prime Minister of Pakistan. In his key-note speech on...

12 Feb. 2017 Karthi, Tamil Nadu (India) Indian media reports one spectator killed and 89 injured in ancient traditional bull hump holding event. 'Jallikattu' is known to be practiced during the Tamil classical period (400-100 BC). It was common among the ancient people Aayars who lived in the ‘Mullai’ geographical division of the ancient Tamil...