Finance Minister Berat Albayrak has promised "realistic macro targets" and "right action plans" in the three-year programme to 2021.

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak will face charges of abusing his position and graft related to money allegedly siphoned off from state fund 1MDB.

Two people were hospitalised after a car reportedly hit pedestrians near a Muslim community centre in northwest London overnight.

Trump's trip to the state follows criticism for his handling of Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico last year.

More than a quarter of a million people will vote on Sunday for the next leader of the tropical Maldives in an election criticised internationally for a lack of transparency.

A push to expand subway networks along with a drive to boost infrastructure investment are helping brighten the outlook for China's steel sector.

The Supreme Court outlawed the practice last year, but Modi's government wants to make it a non-bailable offence carrying a jail term of up to three years.

Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in said they agreed to turn the Korean peninsula into a "land of peace without nuclear weapons and nuclear threats".

A worker accidentally mixed pool chlorine and hydrochloric acid, used as a cleaning agent, at the Pullman Hotel.

Mangkhut swamped farm fields in the nation's agricultural north and smashed houses when it tore through at the weekend with violent winds and heavy rains.

Needles, first found in strawberries produced by one supplier in Queensland, are now turning up around the country.

President Emmanuel Macron has promised extra money and more doctors in rural areas to ease pressure on France’s hospitals, which are creaking under the weight of budget constraints and closures of clinics outside towns and cities.

France’s Interior Minister Gerard Collomb announced yesterday that he would stand down after next year’s European Parliament elections, in yet another blow to President Emmanuel Macron.

Italy’s ruling coalition of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) and far-right League party will pay no regard towards ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s influential media empire, an M5S minister said yesterday.

Angela Merkel’s government has removed domestic spy chief Hans-Georg Maassen from office, transferring him to a different post to defuse an explosive row over immigration and the far-right that once more rocked the German chancellor’s fragile coalition.

European Council President Donald Tusk has called on EU leaders to end their “mutual resentment” ahead of talks in the Austrian city of Salzburg aimed at making progress on the migration deadlock.

Representatives from the 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum (3-2-1 QOSM) participated in the 13th General Assembly of The Olympic Museums Network, it was announced yesterday.

Qatar National Library (QNL) and the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the recent 84th World Library and Information Congress in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Kuwait Amir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah received the credentials of Bandar bin Mohammed al-Attiyah as extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of Qatar to Kuwait.

Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Mohammad Javad Zarif has received a copy of the credentials of Mohammed bin Hamad al-Hajri

The third meeting of the Individual Partnership and Co-operation Programme between Qatar and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) started in Brussels on Monday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to defuse a crisis yesterday after Syrian defences mistakenly downed a Russian warplane after Israeli air strikes.

Cote d’Ivoire President Alassane Ouattara left Doha yesterday after an official visit to Qatar.

HE the Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr Mohammed Abdul Wahed Ali al-Hammadi met yesterday with World Economic Forum (WEF) president Borge Brende, on the sidelines of WEF’s annual meeting of the New Champions, which started in Tianjin, China and will run for three days.

Saudi-backed government forces in Yemen launched a series of attacks on rebel-held Hodeidah, military officials said yesterday, raising fears of a humanitarian crisis as an 11-week pause in the battle for the port city ended.

Zimbabwe’s new president yesterday ruled out an early return of the Zimbabwean dollar, toning down remarks by his finance minister that backed reintroducing the bloated currency.

The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has launched a national baseline survey on the health and safety of employees in Qatar.

Barwa Real Estate Group has joined the Year of Culture Qatar-Russia 2018 with Group CEO Salman bin Mohamed al-Mohannadi participating in a seminar titled ‘Qatar: No Limits of Architecture’.

Ashghal has received a gold achievement award from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) for Doha South Sewage Infrastructure Programme.

Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), a research institute under Hamad Bin Khalifa University, has launched an Interdisciplinary Research Grant Programme (IDGP).

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, His Highness the Deputy Amir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani and HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani sent yesterday cables of congratulations to Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera on