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Qatar Airways (QA) Group recently celebrated its Safety Week with more than 25,000 employees taking part in more than 100 events in Doha and at the airline’s outstations around the world. Qatar Airways Group Safety Week 2020 aimed to raise awareness of the importance of safe practices and behaviours in the workplace to employees. Such initiatives are a vital part...

Doha THE Gulf Organisation for Research and Development (GORD) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Qatar Oryx Chapter, to foster sustainable development through joint initiatives. The MoU was signed by GORD’s Founding Chairman Dr Yousef Alhorr and President of ASHRAE, Qatar Oryx Chapter Engineer Kinan Fahs at GORD headquarters...

Doha Qatar Charity (QC) has signed cooperation agreements with the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) to implement urgent response projects worth $1 million in Iraq, Yemen and Syria, with funding from Qatar Charity. The agreements were signed by Faisal Rashid al Fehaida, assistant CEO for International Operations and Partnerships Sector at Qatar Charity, and Iman Ereiqat, IOM Kuwait’s Chief...

Doha Qatar and Bangladesh are likely to sign a couple of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) during the visit of Qatar’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs HE Sultan bin Saad al Muraikhi to Dhaka next month, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh Mohammed Shahriar Alam has said. Talking to Qatar Tribune on the sidelines of the concluding session of...

The Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani patronised the graduation ceremony of the 7th batch of students of Al Zaeem (Leader) Mohamed Bin Abdullah Al Attiyah Air College, at Al Udeid Air Base on Wednesday morning. The ceremony was attended by Prime Minister and Minister of Interior HE Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz al Thani and...

United States forces in Afghanistan have dropped a record number of bombs this year more than at any other time in at least 10 years, according to the US Air Force. The US has dropped 7,423 bombs on targets in Afghanistan in 2019, marking a rise from the 7,362 munitions released in 2018, the US Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT) said in a report...

The Jordan Valley, which accounts for almost a third of the occupied West Bank, "will be under Israeli sovereignty", according to the long-delayed peace plan unveiled by US President Donald Trump on Tuesday. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who joined Trump at the announcement, has been adamant that the Jordan Valley falls under full Israeli control and become an important part of its...

Hong Kong, China - As Hong Kong prepares for more uncertain times and residents rang in the Year of the Rat, people have turned to fortune-tellers. During the four-day holiday weekend, many headed to the temples to find out what the year ahead augured. One of the most popular sites to do so is the Che Kung Temple in suburban Hong Kong, founded in...

The death toll in China from a deadly new coronavirus rose to 132 with new cases reaching nearly 6,000 - more than during the SARS epidemic of 2002 and 2003 - as Japan and the United States began evacuating hundreds of citizens from Wuhan, the city at the centre of the outbreak. Authorities said on Wednesday the number of confirmed...

The Pentagon said on Tuesday that 50 US soldiers were now diagnosed with traumatic brain injury after missile attacks by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this month, 16 more than the military had previously announced. President Donald Trump and other top officials initially said Iran's January 8 attack had not killed or injured any US service members. Later, Trump appeared to play down the injuries,...

HE Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz al-Thani was appointed as the Prime Minister on January 28, 2020 by the Amiri Order No. 2 of 2020 along with his appointment as Minister of Interior. He has been serving as the Chief of the Amiri Diwan since November 11, 2014 pursuant to the Amiri Order No. 5 of 2014. He...

HE the Minister of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs Yousef bin Mohamed al-Othman Fakhro and HE the Minister of Education and Higher Education Dr Mohamed Abdul Wahed Ali al-Hammadi joined Indian ambassador P Kumaran in cutting a cake at a reception to celebrate the 71st Republic Day of India yesterday as Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chief of Protocol Ibrahim Yousif...

As part of its continuing efforts to ensure quality roads and timely repairing, the Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has launched road inspection cars. The vehicles, operated by the Roads Operations and Maintenance department at Ashghal, will monitor the roads by holding regular surveys. They are equipped with cameras, radars and GPS to detect any defects. “The latest road surveying techniques have been...

Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar (WCM-Q) has held a three-day conference on congenital dystrophies and the precision medicine associated with neuromuscular disorders, with participants hearing from world-leading experts. The event involved experts from the region, Europe and the US lecturing on a variety of topics surrounding neuromuscular disorders, with particular reference to congenital dystrophies and myopathies. These conditions are prevalent in...