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MET: Qatar in for a week of high winds, swirling dust
Jameel Riaz/FlickrPhoto for illustrative purposes only. Expect the rest of the week to be a dusty, windy and hot mess in Qatar. Starting today, local meteorologists are forecasting an increase in...
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Consortium to build Qatar’s largest power and desalination plant
Damon McDonald/FlickrWakrah power plant Rapidly growing demand for power and water in Qatar has led authorities to commission the construction of a US$3.15 billion (QR11.47 billion) electricity and...
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Qatar court finds parents guilty of defamation over online insults
Shehan Peruma/FlickrPhoto for illustrative purposes only. Three expats in Qatar have been convicted by a lower criminal court in Doha of defaming their children’s principal and other school officials...
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Several health clinics, schools and mosques to open in Qatar by 2016
Muhammad Kamran Qureshi/FlickrPhoto for illustrative purposes only. Qatar’s ambitious plans to build a host of community facilities in the coming years appear to be bearing fruit, with six new health...
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Qatar Foundation staff arrested on bribery charges after police sting
Sam Agnew/FlickQatar Foundation campus Two high-ranking Qatar Foundation (QF) employees accused of soliciting a bribe in exchange for renewing an insurance company’s contract began court proceedings...
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After extensive facelift, Al Khor park in Qatar to reopen this summer
ranil river/FlickrFormer Al Khor park One of the biggest and oldest parks in Qatar will reopen in Al Khor within the next two months, an official from the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning...
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Qatar Airways CEO warns Netherlands against freezing expansion plans
Claudio.Ar/FlickrAmsterdam Weeks before Qatar Airways launches its first direct flight to Amsterdam, the national carrier’s CEO has warned Dutch companies that they may find themselves shut out of...
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Qatar motorist killed after transport truck crushes pickup in Sailiya
SuppliedAccident in Sailiya In the second serious vehicle crash this week, at least one Qatar motorist has been killed following a horrific collision involving a transport truck on Salwa Road in...
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Qatar’s Sheikha Moza challenges western nations on Muslim stereotypes
UN Geneva/FlickrSheikha Moza Media coverage of Islam in the west is leading to the dangerous “dehumanization” of Muslims around the world, Qatar’s Sheikha Moza bint Nasser has warned in an unusually...
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Switzerland launches FIFA criminal probe into Russia, Qatar World Cups (updated)
MCaviglia/WikimediaFIFA headquarters Updated at 14:35 to include more information about the US indictment. Already besieged by criticism, Qatar’s right to host the 2022 World Cup faces its biggest...
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Six things to do in Qatar this weekend (May 27-30)
Chantelle D'melloDisney on Ice From princesses to breakdancing to a screening of an American Idol-type competition in Dubai’s labor camps, there is no shortage of things to check out around town over...
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Dear Hana
Via Raghda KabbaniHana Sharabati In May 2012, 19 people, including three-year-old Hana Sharabati, died in a fire at Villaggio Mall. Today, her family will mark the third anniversary of her death....
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Dear Maribel
Via Louie AbanLouie Aban with his late wife and son, who now lives in the Philippines. In May 2012, 19 people, including 29-year-old accountant Maribel Orosco, died in a fire at Villaggio Mall. Today,...
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Dear Community
Via Moeneeb EmeranUmar In May 2012, 19 people, including 15-month-old Umar Emeran, died in a fire at Villaggio Mall. Today, his family will mark the third anniversary of his death. Mother Zareena...
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Dear Evana
Via Abdelmasseih AntoniosEvana In May 2012, 19 people, including two-year-old Evana Antonios, died in a fire at Villaggio Mall. Today, the children’s parents will mark the third anniversary of her...
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Letters to heaven: Qatar families mark three years since Villaggio fire
Omar ChatriwalaVillaggio vigil, 2012 With reporting from Riham Sheble and Lesley Walker Three years ago today, 19 people, including 13 children, four nursery employees and two firefighters, died after...
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Qatar company fined for negligence in construction worker’s death
Chantelle D'melloPhoto for illustrative purposes only. In a rare criminal conviction, a Qatar court has found a local company guilty of involuntary manslaughter following the death of one of its...
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You’re invited: Fourth Doha News community meet-up
Check out my designMeet-up Dear friends, fans and followers, It’s been too long since we’ve seen each other, and we’d like to change that! So please come to our fourth annual community meet-up on...
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Mowasalat plans public transit expansion with more buses on Doha roads
MowasalatKarwa buses With reporting from Nadine Armoush Despite declining public demand and limited interest among parents in Qatar to send their children to school on buses, the country’s state-owned...
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Ashghal announces diversions on Markhiya Street and in Al Khor in Qatar
Chantelle D'melloPhoto for illustrative purposes only. As part of an ongoing national road improvement plan, three separate sets of traffic diversions will be put in place this weekend, Ashghal has...
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