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Commercial Bank organised, for the second consecutive year, an exciting event for its employees under the name CB Olympics Challenge, on the occasion of National Sport Day.
The event took place at CB House of Fitness, the bank’s on-site fully-equipped mixed gym, yesterday.
The gym includes a ladies-only area and offers employees high-quality facilities led by professional staff who run fitness...
Cold and windy conditions are expected to prevail around the country today, according to a special forecast issued by the Qatar Met department for National Sport Day. The minimum temperature will range from 8-13C and the maximum from 14-17C today, the forecast shows.
Also, the weather office has issued a warning for strong winds in both inshore and offshore areas...
Turkey's defence minister has warned that Ankara will change its plan of action in northwestern Syria if agreements over the last major rebel enclave in the country continue to be violated.
Ankara and Moscow, which back opposing sides in the conflict, have brokered a ceasefire for Idlib where Syrian government forces backed by Russian jets have pressed ahead with a fierce assault...
In the space of a few hours on Sunday, Iran unveiled a new ballistic missile and launched a domestically-built satellite - which failed, however, to reach orbit.
The launch of the satellite happened at 7:15pm local time at Imam Khomeini Spaceport in Iran's Semnan province, some 230km (145 miles) southeast of the capital, Tehran. State television said, however, that a Simorgh rocket...
An Egyptian researcher and activist has been arrested at Cairo's international airport upon his arrival from Italy, in a move that raised alarm and prompted condemnation by human rights groups.
Patrick George Zaki, 27, had been in Bologna since August 2019 for his postgraduate studies and returned to Egypt's capital for a brief family visit on Friday, according to the Egyptian Initiative for...
Aid workers and activists have warned of an "unprecedented catastrophe" unfolding in northwest Syria, as government forces, backed by the Russian army and Iranian militias, press ahead with a full-scale assault on opposition-held areas.
Local humanitarian staff said on Sunday that the rapidly deteriorating conditions over the past two weeks had left them struggling to cope with the large numbers of displaced people...
Hundreds of mourners have attended a vigil in a northeastern Thai city for the victims of the worst mass shooting in the country's modern history.
People in Nakhon Ratchasima city on Sunday lit candles, laid down flowers and chanted by the statue of a historic local heroine, Thao Suranari, as Buddhist monks led prayers for the 29 people killed and the 57 wounded.
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More than 900 people have now died in mainland China from the coronavirus that emerged in the central city of Wuhan at the end of last year with the World Health Organization (WHO) deploying a team to the country to investigate the outbreak.
China's National Health Commission reported there were 97 new fatalities from the virus on February 9, which brought the death toll...
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press), in collaboration with FNAC, launched its latest children’s book, ‘Spring Bloom’, co-authored by two professors from Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUarts Qatar) - Sadia Mir and Summer al-Jarrah Bateiha.
Children of all ages enjoyed a captivating book reading by the two authors in the Doha Festival City branch...
The third edition of the Honey Exhibition concluded on Saturday at Souq Waqif. The 10-day exhibition was organised by the Private Engineering Office (PEO) in co-operation with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and with the participation of the Ministry of Municipality and Environment.
More than 150 companies specialised in honey and its products from 37 countries from different continents...
The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has announced a partial traffic closure on a signal- controlled intersection connecting Doha Expressway, Wholesale Market Street and Al Razi Street from today.
During the closure, implemented in co-ordination with the General Directorate of Traffic, traffic coming from Doha Expressway towards Al Razi Street will be closed.
Road users heading to Nuaija will have make a...
Gulf Exchange has launched its Sinhala website (www.gulfexchange.com.qa/si) in celebration of Sri Lanka’s 72nd Independence Day.
The launch took place in the presence of Sri Lanka deputy ambassador Ratnasingam Kohularangan, Kenyan ambassador Patrick Cornel Odero Ahenda, senior management, staff and guests.
Jaafar Ali al-Sarraf, general manager, Gulf Exchange, congratulated the Sri Lankan community in Qatar on their Independence Day. He said the...
It is strawberry harvest time for farmers in Gaza with most of the berries heading to consumers in the occupied West Bank.
But Israel’s blockade means getting them there is a challenge and Israel has also banned the use of certain fertilisers.
Al Jazeera's Stefanie Dekker reports from Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip.
Source:aljazeera.com
Leaders are gathering in Ethiopia's capital ahead of the annual African Union summit which begins on Sunday, and high on the agenda will be the conflict in Libya.
Attempts to end the conflict between the two rival sides have not produced a lasting peace.
Al Jazeera's Mohamed Vall reports on how the war is now affecting other countries in the region.
Source:aljazeera.com
