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Qatar Emir: Hopelessness, not Islam, among root causes of terrorism
Video stillSheikh Tamim during 2014 CNN interview in the US. The US must work with Qatar and its regional peers to “pull the Middle East back from the brink of collapse,” the Gulf state’s Emir has said...
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Qatar Emir, US President discuss tumult in the Middle East
QNAEmir Sheikh Tamim and US President Barack Obama Combating extremism in the Middle East, defeating ISIL and working toward a peaceful Palestine were among the topics discussed by Qatar’s Emir and the...
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ACS Doha announces it will remain open at least one more year
ACS Doha/FacebookFor illustrative purposes only The ACS Doha International School community has been cautiously celebrating this week after the school announced that it would remain open for at least...
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Six things to do in Qatar this weekend (Feb. 25-28)
IGN/FacebookDriving simulator at IGN convention. From cheering on international tennis stars to seeing how the other side lives at a luxury jewelry and watch expo to spending the day gaming, shopping...
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Qatar presents World Cup master plan to FIFA executives
SCDLQatar Foundation stadium rendering The Qatar body responsible for overseeing the preparations for and implementation of the 2022 World Cup has convened for the first time today, on the heels of a...
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Former Civil Defense headquarters to reopen as artist hub next month
QMRendering of The Fire Station The first phase of a new art center that replaces the former Civil Defense headquarters in Wadi Al Sail will open on March 15, Qatar Museums officials have announced....
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Instructors: It should be harder to obtain Qatar driver’s licenses
Muhammad Kamran Qureshi/FlickrPhoto for illustrative purposes only. When it comes to driving on Qatar’s roads, it seems that many motorists march to their own drumbeats – changing lanes suddenly,...
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Teacher at Indian school in Doha resigns over Facebook cartoon
MES Indian School/FacebookMES Indian School A teacher at one of the leading Indian schools in Qatar has reportedly resigned after sharing an inflammatory cartoon of the Indian premier Narendra Modi on...
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Better support services needed in Qatar for abused children, family says
Adam GraddyPhoto for illustrative purposes only. With reporting from Riham Sheble If your child is molested in Qatar, what should you do? For one expatriate family in Qatar recently, the answer...
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PHOTOS: Qatar’s first gaming convention attracts diverse crowd
All photos by Chantelle D’mello Throngs of enthusiasts convened yesterday to attend the opening of Qatar’s first gaming extravaganza – the two-day-long IGN convention – at the Qatar National...
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Scene of fatal Qatar restaurant explosion remains quiet, one year on
Nada BadawiAftermath of last year’s explosion. It took 11 months before Waleed Sayed could walk back into the furniture showroom where he had worked up until last year. One year ago today, the Egyptian...
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World Cup’s ‘little brother’ pulled from Qatar over summer heat concerns
Osama Saeed/FlickrPhoto for illustrative purposes only. The Confederations Cup in 2021 will be moved out of Qatar and held in a yet-to-be-determined Asian country, a senior FIFA official has said. The...
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Under-construction building in Qatar’s diplomatic area catches on fire
A fire has broken out on the rooftop of an under-construction building in the Diplomatic/West Bay area. According to Qatar residents on Twitter, emergency responders are on the scene of the blaze,...
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Chicken farm plans put on hold as Qatar reviews spending
April Younglove / FlickrPhoto for illustrative purposes only. Qatar has postponed plans to build a new chicken farm complex that would have helped bolster its food security, according to a company that...
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Qatar moves to standardize use of DNA evidence in court
West Midlands Police/FlickrPhoto for illustrative purposes only. With reporting from Riham Sheble DNA evidence may soon be admissible in Qatar’s criminal courts after the nation’s Cabinet approved a...
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‘The future of gaming': Oculus Rift enthusiasm grows in Qatar
Chantelle D'melloOculus Rift at the Gaming Lounge Three years after it began as an international crowdfunding project on Kickstarter, the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality gaming headpiece, has finally...
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Safarova clinches first Qatar Total Open title after defeating Azarenka
All photos by Ray Toh Czech tennis player Lucie Safarova has earned her maiden Qatar Open title after unseating Victoria Azarenka during the finals last night, 6-4, 6-3. This is Safarova’s sixth and...
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MOI sets up new electronic system to report car accidents in Qatar
Hani Arif/FlickrPhoto for illustrative purposes only. Qatar motorists involved in accidents may no longer need to go to the Traffic Department to collect paperwork for their insurers, following an...
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Qatar grows by 217,000 people over the past year
Peter KovessyPhoto for illustrative purposes only. For the seventh time in the past year, Qatar’s population has hit an all-time high, according to new figures from the country’s statistics agency....
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DFI to hold several public film screenings during inaugural Qumra event
TimbuktuTimbuktu Internationally-acclaimed film directors and actors will lead a program of public screenings of their landmark movies during the Doha Film Institute’s upcoming Qumra festival,...
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