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Saudi Arabia's King Salman told US President Donald Trump on Friday he has directed his security services to cooperate with US authorities investigating the deadly shooting at a Florida military base and assured him the "perpetrator of this heinous crime" does not represent the Saudi people, Saudi officials said. King Salman expressed "his sorrow and grief" over the shooting, the Saudi embassy in Washington,...

The International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS), through its programme “Save the Dream”, and the Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University organised the EU-funded First International Conference on Sport Volunteerism (Paris 2019) at the Maison du Handball in Creteil in Paris recently. The conference was organised within the framework Empowering Youth Volunteers through Sport (EYVOL) project, a transnational and multi-sectoral initiative co-funded...

Qatar Career Development Centre (QCDC) has released the ninth edition of its annual Career Guide magazine, which features a slew of articles, interviews, and useful tips from experts. The new issue of QCDC’s guide touches on a variety of topics, from medical studies and related work prospects, to Qatari women’s success stories in the healthcare sector. It also sheds light on...

The Qatar Amiri Navy celebrates the graduation of a number of courses for the 2019 training year. Source:gulf-times.com

The Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) has presented an event, ‘Technology to meet climate change challenges and creating value from CO2’, on the sidelines of the ongoing UN Climate Change Conference COP25 in Madrid, Spain. At the event, speakers showcased innovative low-carbon technologies used in various industries, from sports and food to aviation and construction, discussing how the further...

Indians’ long wait for a policy framework that safeguards their privacy, at work and in personal spaces, may end soon. Yesterday (Dec. 4), the Narendra Modi government approved the personal data protection bill, which provides guidelines for the collection, storage, and processing of citizens’ data with an emphasis on the need for the individual’s consent to share it. The bill comes against...

Consultations to form a new government in Lebanon will formally begin on Monday, the presidency has announced, more than a month after a wave of protests led the prime minister, Saad Hariri, to resign. "The presidency has set Monday as the date for the parliamentary consultations" for the designation of a new prime minister, the presidency announced in a short statement on...

Lebanese banks will impose new caps on interest rates on deposits and pay savers half the interest due on foreign currency holdings in Lebanese pounds, the central bank said on Wednesday, noting these moves were aimed at protecting deposits. In a circular noting "exceptional circumstances" in Lebanon, which is in a deep economic crisis, the central bank also said it would be...

Baghdad, Iraq - "No to muhasasa, no to political sectarianism," chanted protesters in Baghdad's Tahrir Square as calls for a complete overhaul of the political system continued despite Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi's resignation on Sunday. From painting slogans onto white banners plastered across the hub of the capital's uprising, to reading anti-sectarian poetry into loudspeakers from atop the famous Turkish Restaurant, protesters...

Two former prime ministers in Algeria have gone on trial on corruption charges, in the most high-profile act of transparency and accountability since a pro-democracy movement pushed out the long-serving president. The exceptional trial, which is being televised and also involves several other former Algerian power players, comes at a time of renewed political tensions in the oil and gas-rich country, a week in...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, represented by the Department of Human Rights, has held a panel discussion on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The panel discussion, entitled “Convention on the Rights of the Child and the reality, achievements and priorities for the promotion of children’s rights in the State...

Stephan Weil, prime minister of the Federal State of Lower Saxony, Germany, was accompanied by a high-level delegation comprising German government officials and corporate leaders during the visits to Qatar Foundation and Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) recently. As part of the delegation’s visit to the Researchery, representatives were given a tour of Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute’s core...

Qatar has reaffirmed its commitment to work to integrate persons with disabilities into sustainable development, calling for best efforts to support the implementation of the United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy. This came in a statement delivered by HE the Permanent Representative of Qatar to the UN ambassador Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif al-Thani during her participation in an event organised...

The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC)’s ‘Generation Amazing’ programme has inaugurated two new football pitches in India this month, “marking further milestones for the human and social legacy programme” as the 30th pitch was inaugurated. The newly opened facilities for youth are located in Colaba Causeway, Mumbai, and Dr Ambedkar School in Kamptee, Nagpur, with the purpose of...