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While most of Germany’s tourist destinations are popular to many people, its southern part, particularly Munich, has traditionally been the hotspot for most travellers from the Gulf region, an official of the German National Tourist Office (GNTO) – Gulf Countries has said.
“Qataris would like to drive from one city or region to the other, as we offer great infrastructure...
The Canadian embassy in Doha will be hosting a large group of Canadian universities and colleges on October 21-22.
In a press statement, the embassy said the aim of their visit is to build stronger linkages in the field of education between Canada and Qatar. The participating institutions will be promoting study opportunities in Canada as well as partnership opportunities...
Huawei continues to come up with all the right numbers.
Despite a United States campaign to isolate China’s high-tech giant, it announced on Wednesday that revenue for the first nine months of the year surged 24.4% compared to the same period in 2018.
The privately-owned smartphone and 5G infrastructure company reported that profits jumped by 8.7%, without revealing further details, while revenue...
There are surveillance cameras and then there is Hikvision.
Billed as China’s “Big Brother” to quote George Orwell’s dystopian classic Nineteen Eighty-Four, Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology has become a major player in tracking the world’s every move.
The scale of the operation is immense. Already the high-tech group is operating in more than 100 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany...
India’s retail inflation, which is based on the country’s consumer price index, rose for the eighth month in a row in September to 3.99%, the highest since July 2018.
However, it continues to remain in the comfort zone agreed on by the national government and the Reserve Bank of India in 2016, which is 4%, with a 2% swing in...
Top Trump cabinet members were en route to Ankara on Wednesday, seeking detente with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government as the fate of 50 US nuclear weapons in Turkey hung in the balance.
Relations between the two NATO allies have been thrown into rapid disarray over the past 10 days after Donald Trump gave a green light, and then condemned,...
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oogle will not launch its newest Pixel 4 smartphone in India, the company said, disappointing consumers with a decision reportedly based on its refusal to disable a feature that uses a radar frequency barred in the South Asian nation.
Hours after the Alphabet-owned internet giant unveiled its latest handsets featuring motion-sensing capabilities and a ramped-up camera, the firm told an...
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan visited Iran on Sunday on a mission to act as a “facilitator” between Tehran and Riyadh and try to defuse rising tensions in the Gulf.
Khan held talks with President Hassan Rouhani at the presidential palace and later met with Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to the leader’s official website.
He is expected to...
Iran has discovered a gas field near the Gulf with enough reserves to supply the capital for 16 years, state media reported on Sunday.
The Eram field contains 19 trillion cubic feet (538 billion cubic metres) of natural gas, the National Iranian Oil Company said, cited by official news agency IRNA.
The oil ministry’s Shana website said the field was located...
Turkey rebuffed international pressure to curb its deadly offensive against Kurdish forces in Syria on Wednesday as US President Donald Trump dispatched his deputy Mike Pence to Ankara to demand a ceasefire.
But President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed that Turkey’s operation – which has been facilitated by the withdrawal of US troops from northern Syria – would continue.
On another front,...
What does the People’s Bank of China know that the rest of us don’t?
China bulls have 28 billion reasons to ask. That’s how much, in US dollar terms, the central bank suddenly pumped into markets yesterday. That, just two days ahead of Friday’s release of closely-watched data on GDP, or gross domestic product, in the third quarter.
Economists generally expect a 6.1%...
Donald Trump’s abandonment of the Syrian Kurds – America’s foot soldiers in the war against ISIS – to a Turkish military incursion is casting a fresh glare on the US president’s business interests in Turkey.
“I have a little conflict of interest because I have a major major building in Istanbul,” Trump told Breitbart News in December 2015 during the heat of...
Three new waves of nationally-representative surveys conducted by the University of Maryland over the past six months paint a damning picture of the Trump administration’s Iran policy. Negative perceptions of the United States among the Iranian public are at the highest recorded level in over a decade of public opinion research conducted by the university’s Center for International and...
Putin signs oil agreements and discusses regional security in his first visit to the kingdom since 2007.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited Saudi Arabia in his first trip to the kingdom in over a decade, signing oil agreements and discussing regional security, in particular, Saudi Arabia's ongoing rivalry with Iran.
A mounted guard escorted Putin's limousine to King Salman's Al-Yamamah palace in Riyadh after...
