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The embassy of Moldova in Doha and Elite Paper Recycling are partnering to promote environmental sustainability and recycling across all their programmes and activities under the Green Embassies programme in Qatar, it has been announced.
Mihai Clapaniuc, chargé d’affaires at the Moldovan embassy, and Abdulla Ibrahim al-Suwaidi, chairman of Elite Paper Recycling, co-signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in this...
Doha, Qatar - Asian champions Qatar have beaten the United Arab Emirates (UAE) 4-2 in an action-packed match to advance to the semi-finals of the 24th Arabian Gulf Cup.
Newly crowned Asian player of the year Akram Afif, 22, scored twice in the first half to put the hosts in front at a crammed Khalifa International Stadium, before Emirati forward Ali Mabkhout converted a penalty to reduce the UAE's...
Baghdad, Iraq - Tiba says she decided to boycott her university classes the moment she learned that her friend Amer had been killed during clashes with Iraqi security forces.
The pair first met in October in Tahrir Square, the capital's main site for anti-government demonstrations which have continued for two months. Amer told her that he was protesting on behalf of his brother, who...
Turkey's economy shook off recession to grow 0.9 percent in the three months ending in September from the same period the year before. The data, released on Monday, broke three straight quarters of contraction that followed last year's currency crisis.
Turkey has a track record of five percent growth, but a 30 percent slide in the lira last year pushed up...
Better ingredients make better pizza. Just ask Papa John himself. But if you do, be prepared to hear a doozy of a story about how Papa John's pizza chain may have changed its recipe after ousting Papa John himself. Yes, Papa claims to have eaten 40 of his namesake chain’s pies in the past 30 days, and knows something tastes different.
“I’ve...
Msheireb Properties, in collaboration with Hyatt Hotels Corporation, inaugurated the first-ever Park Hyatt Doha Hotel at Msheireb Downtown Doha yesterday, further boosting Qatar’s hospitality sector.
The grand opening of the five-star hotel, owned and developed by Msheireb Properties, was attended by Qatar National Tourism Council Secretary-General, Qatar Airways Group chief executive and Msheireb Properties Board Member HE Akbar al-Baker, and...
Over 500 cyclists from across the country came together to raise QR110,285 for Education Above All (EAA) Foundation in a charity ‘Ride for Education’ hosted by Sheraton Grand Doha and Qatar Marriott Worldwide Business Council (QMWBC).
The funds raised will benefit EAA Foundation’s Educate Somali Children project, targeting 109,372 children in Somalia. Today, 63mn children worldwide have no access to...
HE the Speaker of the Shura Council Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid al-Mahmoud yesterday met a delegation from the US Congress, including Representative for New York Sean Maloney, Representative for Washington Rick Larsen and Representative for California Nanette Barragan. During the meeting, they reviewed the strategic relations between Qatar and the US, and ways of supporting these relations in...
The 2022 Iconic Landmark, the world’s first building in the shape of the number of a year, is to be opened in Doha’s Aspire Zone today at 11am to mark the anniversary of Qatar being announced the host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup on December 2, 2010.
Source:gulf-times.com
A plane crash in the US state of South Dakota killed nine people, including two children, and injured three others while a winter storm warning was in place.
The Pilatus PC-12, a single-engine turboprop plane, crashed shortly after take-off about two kilometres (a mile) from the Chamberlain airport, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said.
Among the dead was the plane's pilot, Brule County...
Israel's defence minister has approved plans for the building of a new illegal settlement in the heart of the flashpoint city of Hebron, drawing sharp criticism from Palestinian officials.
The defence ministry said on Sunday that Naftali Bennett had instructed departments responsible for the occupied West Bank "to notify the Hebron municipality of planning a new Jewish neighbourhood in the wholesale market...
Tunisia's health ministry has said a bus carrying local tourists crashed off a hill, killing 24 people and injuring 18 others.
The bus, which belonged to a private company, veered off track after its driver failed to manoeuvre a sharp turn in the country's northern Ain Snoussi region and crashed at the bottom of a ravine, the interior ministry said...
Baghdad, Iraq - Iraqi legislators approved Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi's resignation on Sunday during a parliament session held in the capital Baghdad amid weeks of deadly anti-government protests.
An embattled Abdul Mahdi had announced on Friday that he would quit, after 50 demonstrators were killed the previous day by security forces in Baghdad and Iraq's mainly Shia southern cities of Nasiriya and Najaf.
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DC Comics needs a superhero to save it from itself. The pop-culture giant is in political hot water over a drawing that’s been linked in mainland China to Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests and is now at the center of a global debate about state censorship and corporate complicity in chilling free speech.
The image in question, which DC removed from various...
