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Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) Secretary-General Ali bin Hassan al-Hammadi has received a delegation from the embassy of Mali, headed by Cheick Ahmed Tidiany Diakite, Mali’s ambassador to Qatar. The meeting was attended by Ahmed bin Abdulrahman al-Sunaidi, Qatar’s ambassador to Mali. The meeting discussed the humanitarian situation in Mali, particularly in the northern parts of the country. Diakite emphasised...

Generation Amazing has announced a partnership with the charity, CORE, to bring its football for development programme to children in Haiti, extending its reach beyond Asia and the Middle East to the Americas. The programme will benefit 375 boys and girls from three Port-au-Prince schools within the CORE network – the Institution Mixte de l’Espoir, Ecole Primaire Bethlehem and School...

The final day for high school and transfer students to submit an application for admission to Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) is February 1, admissions director Joseph Hernandez said. The university, a Qatar Foundation partner, has made the process easy to navigate, according to a statement issued yesterday. Admissions counsellors are available daily for consultations and the university’s website includes application...

HE the Minister of Municipality and Environment Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Turki al-Subaie has stressed that protecting Qatar’s environment and keeping it clean and free from all forms of pollutants is a collective responsibility of all members of society, including citizens, residents, students, civil society, volunteers, and others. The Minister was speaking during the cleaning campaign organised by the ministry...

Tesla Inc.'s stock is soaring, and traditional auto manufacturers are staging glitzy presentations of new plug-in models. You'd think the electric-vehicle age was finally dawning. But so far, Tesla is the only car company looking likely to benefit in the coming years. Look at every other corner of the U.S. auto industry -- the world's most valuable automaker, dealers, consumer...

Toyota Motor Corp said on Tuesday that it will recall 3.4 million vehicles worldwide because of an electronic defect that can result in airbags not deploying in crashes. The recall, which includes 2.9 million vehicles in the United States, covers 2011-19 Corolla, 2011-13 Matrix, 2012-18 Avalon and 2013-18 Avalon Hybrid vehicles and is tied to a report of one fatal...

Tesla Inc surged in Wednesday's trading and the company became the first publicly listed United States-based automaker to cross $100bn in market valuation, more than Ford Motor Co and General Motors Co combined. Shares of the electric carmaker were up 8.1 percent at $591.78 in late-morning trading, continuing their robust rally that has more than doubled the share price in the...

China failed to send home North Korean workers by a December deadline in violation of United Nations sanctions, a senior US official said on Wednesday, adding that this was why Washington had blacklisted two entities involved in Pyongyang’s labour export. A 2017 UN Security Council resolution, which China backed, demanded that all countries repatriate all North Korean workers by December 22 to stop...

Boeing expects to resume production of its troubled 737 MAX plane months before its forecasted mid-year return to service, as the United States planemaker said it would continue to fly the aircraft for a generation, Chief Executive Officer Dave Calhoun told reporters on Wednesday. The company is not considering scrapping the MAX, the recently appointed chief said. More: Troubled skies: Boeing says 737...

Baghdad, Iraq - On January 3, soon after Iranian General Qassem Soleimani left Baghdad airport in an armoured vehicle, a US drone fired rockets at his convoy, killing the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Iraqis accompanying him. The brazen assassination sent shockwaves through the Middle East and beyond, triggering fears of an all-out war between the United States and Iran in Iraq,...

Beirut, Lebanon - Newly appointed Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni said on Wednesday that he felt the "heavy weight" of his task to steer Lebanon out of an acute financial crisis and gain the trust of a protesting population. "The economic, financial and monetary situation is very difficult. There is a lot of pressure on the whole government to convince both the uprising in...

Baghdad, Iraq - Leaders of several Iraqi Shia armed groups have condemned President Barham Salih's meeting with his United States counterpart President Donald Trump, with some threatening to force Salih to resign. The meeting between the two presidents took place on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday. It came amid rising regional tensions that spilled over in Iraq after the killing...

Iran will never seek nuclear weapons - with or without the nuclear deal, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday. He also called on European powers to avoid the United States' "mistake" of violating the historic 2015 nuclear accord with major powers. "We have never sought nuclear weapons ... With or without the nuclear deal, we will never seek nuclear weapons," said Rouhani, according to...

Beirut, Lebanon - Violent demonstrations were witnessed on the streets of central Beirut as protesters gathered in the heart of the capital near the main entrance to parliament, which has been heavily fortified with barbed wire, steel gates and metal plates. Protesters lobbed stones, firecrackers and street signs at riot police, who fired water cannons, tear gas and rubber-coated bullets in...