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Norwegian Finance Minister Siv Jensen and her right-wing Progress Party will resign from the government over a cabinet decision to help bring a woman suspected of ISIL affiliation back home to Norway, Jensen said on Monday. The resignation robs Conservative Prime Minister Erna Solberg of her parliamentary majority and could make the country more difficult to govern, but Solberg still plans...

Officials in protest-hit Lebanon on Monday promised to take measures to deter attacks on security forces by alleged "infiltrators" during the violence over the weekend that injured hundreds of people. Lebanon has been rocked by mostly peaceful anti-government rallies since October 17, but the protests turned violent on Saturday and Sunday amid political deadlock and an ever-deepening economic crisis. More: Beirut turns into a battleground...

Three Katyusha rockets fell on Tuesday inside Baghdad's Green Zone, which houses government buildings and foreign missions, Iraqi police sources told Reuters. The three rockets were launched from Zafaraniyah district outside Baghdad, the sources said, adding that two rockets landed near the United States embassy Sirens could be heard across the zone immediately after the rockets made impact. The US has blamed Iran-backed paramilitary groups for a...

Ayutla, Guatemala - Chaos ensued on the Guatemala-Mexican border on Monday after thousands of migrants and asylum seekers attempted to cross the Suchiate River, which divides the countries, after not being permitted to pass as a group into Mexico. Some migrants threw rocks and other items at Mexican National Guard troops, who blocked the group with tear gas and rocks. More: Rights groups slam...

The Honduran government has formally declared Hezbollah a terrorist organisation, a top security official said on Monday. "We declare Hezbollah a terrorist organisation and will include it in the registry of persons and institutions linked to acts of terrorism and its financing," said Luis Suazo, Honduras' deputy security minister. Hezbollah has also been designated a terrorist organisation by the United States government. Last week, Guatemala's new...

A World Health Organization (WHO) emergency panel will meet this week to discuss a new SARS-like virus that has spread beyond China and that officials in Beijing have said is contagious between humans. The new coronavirus strain, first discovered in the central city of Wuhan, has caused alarm because of its connection to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). SARS originated in southern China in...

The United States Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday proposed a condensed, two-day calendar for each side to give opening statements in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, ground rules that are raising objections from Democrats on the eve of the landmark proceedings. The Republican leader outlined the process in a four-page resolution that will be voted on as one of the first...

A commission set up to investigate the 2017 crackdown in Rakhine that led hundreds of thousands of mostly Muslim Rohingya to flee Myanmar, has concluded that while some soldiers probably committed war crimes, there was no genocide. The Independent Commission of Enquiry (ICOE) released the findings of its investigation, but not the full report, to the country's president on Monday, a...

A two-day conference that aims to explore new approaches to Gulf security got under way on the Qatar University (QU) campus yesterday. The conference, titled Towards a New Gulf Security Regime: Abandoning Zero-Sum Approaches, is jointly organised by QU’s Gulf Studies Centre and the Al Jazeera Centre for Studies (AJCS). It is being attended by a large number of researchers, both...

Ahlibank has launched the 2020 Al Rabeh savings scheme; giving customers more chances to win valuable cash prizes worth over QR6mn. With the Al Rabeh savings account, customers have the chance to enter the draw to win the mega prize of QR2.02mn at the end of December 2020, one mega monthly prize of QR202,200 and nine monthly cash prizes of...

Nasser Bin Khaled (NBK) Automobiles has introduced the new Mercedes-Benz GLS for the first time in Qatar, and the SUV is now available at the Mercedes-Benz showroom on Salwa Road. “The new GLS is Mercedes-Benz’s largest and most luxurious SUV and, above all, offers more space, more comfort and more luxury,” according to a press statement issued in Doha by...

Aero Freight Company managing director Kurian C Ipe (Thampoo Kurian) was felicitated by the Indian Cultural Centre for completing 40 years as an NRI business person in Qatar. On his behalf, Naithan Ipe Kurian received the honour from Indian ambassador P Kumaran during the ‘A Passage to India 2020’ community festival at the Museum of Islamic Art Park on...

As part of the ongoing ‘Qatar Beautification and Our Kids Planting Trees’ campaign to plant a million trees, a group of Al Khor Model School students, Nakilat Company employees and their families joined hands with the Public Works Authority (Ashghal) to plant saplings at Al Khor Road development project. The Supervisory Committee of Beautification of Roads and Public Places in...

Some of Qatar’s grand challenges are to be addressed through a collaboration of the Centre for Advanced Materials (CAM) at Qatar University (QU) with a top researcher from the University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. “The main areas comprise water desalination process, anti-corrosion coating, CO2 reduction as well as better food preservation method among others,” Prof Yusuke Yamauchi, senior group leader,...