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Qatar, an Emirate on the western shores of Persian Gulf has made headlines for the wrong reasons. A study on violence against women, ’surprisingly and eventually’ the first of their kind in the Emirate ‘has made a new statement’.
‘Women in Qatar...
Qatar’s official news agency says a Qatari man has been released from the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay and has returned home.
The Iraqi Football Association has dissolved the national soccer team and dismissed the Iraqi coach after a loss to Qatar four days ago ended the country’s hopes of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.”It was decided to disband the team,...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says there is “no quick fix” to high oil prices because it is an issue of supply and demand.”I don’t see a lot of short-term answers” on high oil prices, he told reporters Sunday during a visit to the tiny Gulf...
Arab mediators scrambled Tuesday to salvage Lebanese crisis talks in Qatar, offering rival factions two proposals on how to end their country’s 18-month political deadlock.They gave the feuding camps a day to consider the proposals.The talks follow an...
Talks between rival Lebanese factions teetered near collapse Monday, as Arab League mediators in Qatar pressed the parties to resolve the political strife that erupted into bloody violence and pushed the country to the brink of a new civil war.The...
Feuding Lebanese factions holding top-level crisis talks in Qatar hit new snags Monday, with the U.S.-backed government side and the Hezbollah-led opposition disagreeing on how to go forward.The Hezbollah-led faction issued a statement saying it wants...
More than a dozen Jewish rabbis, including two from Israel, were in attendance this week as this conservative Muslim sheikdom opened one of the Gulf’s first scholarly centers dedicated to interfaith dialogue.The rare meeting of Muslim, Christian and...
Thousands of worshippers gathered Saturday for the consecration of Qatar’s first Christian church, ending decades of underground worship in this Sunni Muslim and deeply conservative Persian Gulf nation.Cardinal Ivan Diaz, envoy to Pope Benedict XVI,...
This tiny, wealthy Arab Gulf country is opening its first Roman Catholic church, ending decades of clandestine worship for tens of thousands of foreign workers.The consecration of the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, planned for Saturday, appears to be...
An Al-Jazeera TV cameraman imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay has been told he may soon be released after more than six years in U.S. military custody, a lawyer for the detainee said Monday, though U.S. officials refused to confirm the report.Attorney Cori...
Qatar, an Emirate on the western shores of Persian Gulf has made headlines for the wrong reasons. A study on violence against women, ’surprisingly and eventually’ the first of their kind in the Emirate ‘has made a new statement’.
‘Women in Qatar...
Commissioned by Qatar Steel Corp, futurist and designer Syd Mead has created the most astounding vision of what the company’s home town of Doha is going to look like in the far future. As Mead interprets it, Doha in the future is going to be a city...
The outskirts of Doha, Qatar are witnessing the growth of phenomenal trees; only these support the façade of an architectural extravaganza. The building that’s the subject matter of this bit is the Education City Convention Center designed by...
A song from an Indian movie says, ‘It happens only in India.’ Rightly said as a guy named Amit Malhotra from Ludhiana in India spend 1.5 million rupees ($32,000) for a mobile number (9780000000). Although, it’s not a new thing paying huge amounts for...
Defending champions Japan, eyeing a victory over Qatar in the Asian Cup Group B opener, finally ended with an equaliser.
A late strike from Sebastian Quintana, of Qatar snatched a winning start to Japan’s bid for a record fourth title at the...
Children in Darfur, according to a new report, are enduring ‘unspeakable acts of violence and abuse’ from killing and rape to abduction, torture and recruitment as fighters in the escalating four-year conflict in Sudan’s vast western region.
The...
The conditions perfect and the man at his best - Italian maestro Valentino Rossi finished clean for the pole.
In the motoGP’s Qatar season opener, Rossi sailed through the final qualification lap to place himself and team Yamaha at the pole...
Exxon Mobil Corp. has decided to scrap plans to build a $7 billion facility to convert natural gas to diesel with Qatar’s state-owned oil company in exchange for a bigger stake in the world’s largest gas field. ExxonMobil and Qatar Petroleum...
Qatar schedule to host the meeting of major Gas Exporters countries in April, which has 14 member and hold 70 percent of the total world’s reserves, aims to shape another group along the lines of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...
Qatar has earned the wrath of Wikipedia as the latter has banned the people of the country from editing or loading any entry in Wikipedia due to what Wikipedia says excessive spam and wreckage of the content.
This country of about 1 million people...
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