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The blood donation campaign by the Umm Salal Municipality entered the third day after evoking a good response from people from all walks of life. The campaign organised by the Public Relations Department in co-operation with the Blood Donor Centre at Hamad Medical Corp. The five day camp is held daily from 8am to 1pm. The campaign activities will...

Organisers of the International Falcon Festival ‘Marmi Championship’ have praised the competitors’ commitment to making the event a success. Miteb Mubarak al-Qahtani, chairman of the Marmi Festival Committees, expressed his satisfaction in the successful progress of the championship in the first week. He lauded the competitors and the Ministry of Municipality and Environment. The festival that started on January 1 at Sabkat...

The Central Municipal Council (CMC) has requested the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) to specify the exact meaning of workers' camps as laid down in Article 1 of Law No 15 of 2010 regarding the Prohibition of Workers' Camps within Family Residential Areas. The CMC has sought a clear-cut description of workers' camps to avoid any potential manipulation of...

HE the Minister of Culture and Sports Salah bin Ghanem bin Nasser al-Ali met Anna Paolini, director, Unesco Regional Office, in Doha yesterday. During the meeting, they discussed aspects of co-operation in youth and cultural fields. Source:gulf-times.com

Exhibition of art works by legends including Pablo Picasso, classic French movies, music performances, and French food festivals are some of the highlights of Qatar- France 2020 Year of Culture that will kick off on January 10. The details of the programme, organised by Qatar Museums (QM) were announced Tuesday at a press conference at the National Museum of Qatar...

More young Qataris are participating in the Arab Innovation Academy (AIA 2020), which kicked-off at Education City Tuesday, compared to the 2019 edition of the AIA – the first and the largest entrepreneurship programme in the pan-Arab region. The AIA was first brought to Qatar and the Middle East in 2018 through collaboration between Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP)...

In December, Ismail Haniya, chief of the Hamas political bureau, embarked on his first foreign tour since being elected to the position by the Shura Council of the movement in May 2017. Since the Israeli siege was imposed on Gaza more than 13 years ago, officials from Gaza have only been able to travel abroad through Cairo. This has given Egyptian authorities control...

The United States has no plans to pull out militarily from Iraq, Defense Secretary Mark Esper told Pentagon reporters on Monday, following reports of a US military letter about preparations for a withdrawal. "There's been no decision whatsoever to leave Iraq," Esper said, when asked about the letter, adding there had also been no plans issued to prepare to leave. "There's been no decision...

Yangon, Myanmar - A year ago, four police stations in the conflict-ridden western Rakhine State of Myanmar came under attack from the Arakan Army (AA) leaving an estimated 13 officers dead and nine injured. The response was swift. Myanmar's military (also known as the Tatmadaw) promised to "crush the terrorists", marking the beginning of the latest bloody chapter in the country's never-ending conflicts, waged primarily between the...

The United Nations special envoy to Libya on Monday said he was "angry" at foreign interference in the war-torn country, as the Security Council expressed concern at the recent escalation in fighting. "I am really angry to see that everybody wants to talk about Libya and very few people want to talk about the Libyans, what happens to the Libyans," Ghassan Salame...

The Mexican government said on Monday more than 61,000 people had gone missing as a result of the increasingly violent drug war with powerful cartels, 50 percent more than the government previously estimated. The new figure from the one-year-old administration of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, popularly known as AMLO, compares with about 40,000 missing cited by the government as recently as June. More: ...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has said that both the United States and Iran must observe conventions obliging states to protect cultural sites after US President Donald Trump threatened to target Iran's cultural heritage. At a meeting with the Iranian ambassador to the Paris-based organisation on Monday, Director-General Audrey Azoulay said provisions of the 1954 and 1972 conventions, ratified by both the US and Iran,...

The substance of the Iran nuclear deal is slowly disappearing and European powers will decide in the coming days whether to launch a dispute resolution process over Tehran's latest violations, according to the French foreign minister. Iran said on Sunday that it would scrap limits on enriching uranium, taking a further step back from the 2015 agreement with six major powers. Its...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's campaign against illegal drugs has failed to substantially eradicate the menace and ensnare major drug lords, and should be reformed to prevent further bloodshed, the country's vice president said late on Monday. Vice President Leni Robredo, who leads the opposition, also called for a stop to the police practice of home inspections that have led to...