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After the astounding success of its first edition, the International Light and Digital Media Festival (LightMe Lusail) is back again in 2020 for its second edition for four days from tomorrow (January 15).
With this year’s edition the event will be a bigger and better with extraordinary installations on the ground and above water. The event will showcase innovative technologies...
Global banks that worked on Saudi Aramco's record initial public offering are pushing for an additional "incentive fee", three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters News Agency, as they try to boost relatively low earnings from the deal.
Aramco said on Sunday that it had exercised a "greenshoe option" to sell an additional 450 million shares, raising the size of its...
Saudi Arabia executed 184 people in 2019, the most in a calendar year in six years, human rights organisation Reprieve has said, calling it a "grim milestone" for the kingdom.
Of the executions announced by the Saudi Press Agency last year, 88 were Saudi nationals, 90 were foreign nationals and six people were of unknown nationality, a statement released on Monday by Reprieve...
United States troops cleared rubble and debris from a military base housing American soldiers in western Iraq on Monday, days after it was struck by a barrage of Iranian ballistic missiles in a major escalation between the two longtime foes.
The Iranian attack was in retaliation for the US drone strike near Baghdad airport that killed a top Iranian commander, General Qassem Soleimani, prompting angry calls...
Iran has signalled that Canada's Transportation Safety Board (TSB) will play a more active role than international rules require in the investigation of the Iranian military's shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner last week, according to the agency's head, Kathy Fox.
A missile fired by Iran brought down the Ukrainian airlines plane on January 8 killing all 176 on board, including 57 Canadians....
US President Donald Trump clearly had the authority to kill Qassem Soleimani, United States Attorney General William Barr said on Monday, adding that the White House consulted with his Department of Justice before the strike on the Iranian commander.
Barr told reporters that Soleimani was a "legitimate military target" and the strike was a "legitimate act of self-defence".
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Trump: 'Doesn't really matter' if Soleimani posed...
France and five West African states agreed on Monday to combine their military forces under one command structure to fight a growing battle in the Sahel region, with Paris committing an extra 220 troops.
French President Emmanuel Macron had called the leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger and Mauritania, known as the G5, to the southwestern French town of Pau to...
Haitian President Jovenel Moise could be ruling by decree later this week, a scenario he said would help break the Caribbean nation's political deadlock, but one in which critics fear will undermine its fragile democracy.
In the early hours of Monday, the president said the mandates of lower house deputies and most senators formally expired because no successors were elected...
Guatemala City - Guatemalan civil society groups are pressuring authorities to arrest President Jimmy Morales for corruption on Tuesday as soon as his successor takes office.
For more than half of his four-year term, Morales has been plagued by allegations of illegal campaign financing. He has denied any wrongdoing.
He also shut down an international commission leading investigations into high-level corruption.
"Corruption kills," Guatemala City resident...
WITH between 20 and 25 percent of patients cared for by the Physiotherapy Department at Hamad General Hospital (HGH) classified as ‘critical care patients’, Noora al Mudahka, chief of Physiotherapy, said it’s a misconception that all seriously ill patients require bed-rest.
“Patients who are cared for by our Intensive Care Unit (ICU) are either seriously ill or require specialised care....
Following an outstanding performance by Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra (QPO) to herald Qatar-France Year of Culture 2020, Qatar Foundation (QF) will be organising and contributing to an array of activities that enable the people of Qatar, France and other countries to explore, appreciate and celebrate both their cultural similarities and differences.
Outlining QF’s contribution to the Qatar-France Year of Culture 2020,...
The Ministry of Interior (MoI), in cooperation with the Scouts and Guides Association of Qatar, organised the first security exhibition for people with special needs as part of the ‘Messengers of Peace Initiative’.
Dr Ibrahim Saleh al Nuaimi, undersecretary of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Scouts and Guides Association...
Aspire Academy welcomed a high-ranking delegation from Bulgaria led by Minister of Education and Science Krasimir Georgiev Valchev on Sunday.
During the visit, Aspire Academy’s management and the delegation discussed potential future collaborations.
The guests from Southeast Europe were welcomed by Aspire Academy’s Deputy Director-General Ali Salem Afifa, who gave them a brief overview about the philosophy and the achievements of...
A volcano near Manila spewed a massive cloud of ash that drifted across the Philippine capital, forcing the cancellation of flights as authorities warned of a possible "explosive eruption".
Thousands of people were evacuated on Sunday from the area near Taal volcano after it suddenly shot a column of ash and steam as high as 15km (9 miles) into the...
