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Fast and furious star Tyrese heading to Qatar
American actor and musician Tyrese Gibson will visit Qatar this weekend, he announced on his social media channels. The Fast and Furious star said he is taking his first vacation in seven years and...
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Spot someone smoking in a Qatar mall? Call this new hotline
Jonttu Leskinen/FlickrPhoto for illustrative purposes only Addressing complaints about the illegal but frequent practice of people smoking inside Qatar’s shopping malls, authorities have launched a...
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Qatar Airways ups stake in British Airways parent firm IAG
Qatar’s national carrier now owns about 12 percent of IAG, up 9.99 percent from previously, according to media reports. IAG is the parent company of British Airways, and its chief Willie Walsh has...
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After years in Qatar jail, Filipina mom and son finally head home
Squire Patton BoggsCatherine and Adam pictured in the Doha offices of legal firm Squire Patton Boggs. Just over a week ago, Filipina expat Catherine received news that would change her life – and that...
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Qatar-based Ooredoo Group’s Q1 profits soar by 75%
Ooredoo’s first-quarter profit jumped by 75 percent to QR879 million, the locally headquartered telecom firm has said, citing favorable currency fluctuations in Indonesia and Myanmar as the main...
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Four Bangladeshi expats killed in Qatar minibus crash
Shabina S. KhatriPhoto for illustrative purposes only. Four Qatar residents have died and one man is in critical condition in the hospital after the driver of their minibus lost control of the vehicle...
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Cyber expert: Qatar leak could have been part of a wider hack
Colin Harris/FlickrPhoto for illustrative purposes only. The recent leak of personal and banking details of up to 400,000 individuals and companies was likely a “hacker’s cache” that was being...
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New Qatar Rail contract awarded as focus shifts to readying stations
SCDLConstruction progress at Msheireb station – Dec. 2015 As tunneling work on the Doha Metro wraps up, Qatar Rail is turning its attention to the stations, and has recently placed an order for 500...
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King of Morocco meets with Emir in Qatar
QNA/InstagramQatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim greets Morocco’s King Mohammed VI. The leaders of Qatar and Morocco met yesterday in Doha to discuss several undisclosed issues as well as developments in the...
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Reuters: Turkish soldiers deployed to serve in Qatar
Christopher Hall/WikimediaPhoto for illustrative purposes only. Soldiers from Turkey have already been sent to Qatar to serve on Turkey’s first military base in the Gulf, Reuters reports. The...
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Large stash of gold discovered in Qatar Airways plane bathroom
Harry / FlickrPhoto for illustrative purposes only. More than 7kg of gold was discovered in the toilet of a Qatar Airways plane on arrival in India earlier this week. The jewelry was found inside a...
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Ahead of 2022 World Cup, organizers grow top turf in Qatar’s desert
Peter Kovessy / Doha NewsWorld Cup 2022 turf A dusty patch of abandoned Al Rayyan farmland is being turned into one of the greenest areas in Qatar by the country’s 2022 World Cup organizers. Though...
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El Jaish reign supreme in hard-fought Qatar Cup
All photos by Ray Toh Some 10,000 people cheered on their favorite national teams during this year’s Qatar Cup football final, a nail-biter of a match that ended with El Jaish winning at the last...
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Qatar-based Al Jazeera’s Baghdad bureau closed by authorities
Iraqi authorities have once again closed Al Jazeera Media Network’s Baghdad office, saying the channel was inciting violence and sectarianism. Al Jazeera reported the news earlier this week, a month...
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Check to see if you were affected by the QNB hack on this website
Stefan/FlickrPhoto for illustrative purposes only. A computer scientist who used to live in Qatar has launched a new website for people to check if they are mentioned in last week’s data leak....
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Minister: More recycling bins coming to Qatar
Peter Kaminski/FlickrPhoto for illustrative purposes only. Plans are underway to increase recycling efforts in Qatar and reduce the amount of garbage generated here, the minister of municipality and...
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Nine places to eat in Qatar for under QR25
Sanjiban Ghosh/FlickrPhoto for illustrative purposes only. For the uninitiated, Qatar can be an expensive place to eat. But hotel brunches and casual dining restaurants aside, there are actually a lot...
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Worker employed on Qatar World Cup stadium site dies
SCDLRevised design for Al Bayt Al Khor stadium A 48-year-old Indian expat who was working on construction of Qatar’s Al Bayt World Cup stadium has died, tournament organizers said. Jaleshwar Prasad, a...
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Ban on sale and import of incandescent lightbulbs in Qatar takes effect
A ban on the import and sale of tungsten lightbulbs in Qatar goes into effect today and will initially apply to 75 and 100 watt bulbs, Qatar General Electricity & Qatar Corp. (Kahramaa) said. In a...
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Saudi politician calls for new causeway to Qatar
arwcheek / FlickrPhoto for illustrative purposes only. With reporting from Riham Sheble A municipal leader in eastern Saudi Arabia has called for the construction of a new 25km bridge between the...
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