Muscat, Oman: Oman Telecommunications Company , gearing up for competition, has come out with a tariff bonanza for its customers in the country, including Voice-over Internet Protocol .
The Palestine City Council will hold a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday for a pair of public hearing on the proposed increase in property tax revenues and on the proposed 2008-09 budget.
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — The 27-year-old woman and her husband already had three children — all girls.
More than 11,000 Iraqis have been released from American detention centers this year, leaving nearly 20,000 in custody, the U. S. military said Saturday.
President George W. Bush’s decision to mount a troop “surge” in Iraq last year was taken against the initial recommendations of his top advisers, including his field commander, The New York Times reported in …
‘ Sudan’s senior presidential assistant Minni Arcua Minnawi condemned Monday’s raid by Sudanese soldiers and security officers on a refugee camp that killed at least 30 people and injured many more.
Religious authorities in much of the Middle East declared that Monday will be the start of the holy month of Ramadan, when observant Muslims fast from dawn to dusk.
A Malaysian shipping line says pirates have hijacked a tanker and its 41 crew members off Yemen’s coast in the Gulf of Aden.
Iraqi police in this provincial backwater got a tip earlier this month that a suicide bomber was on the loose.
By Jonathan Lynn
GENEVA (Reuters) - As ministers from over 100 countries gather in Ghana to review how effective aid is in helping developing nations deal with poverty, many economists argue the answer is elsewhere — in freeing up trade.
The meeting in Accra this week comes just over a month after talks at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to secure a breakthrough in the long-running Doha round collapsed at the end of July.
Rich and poor countries alike have called for efforts to save the Doha round and build on the compromises that were reached in July’s talks. Senior negotiators are likely to meet in September to see whether the talks can be revived.