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Tens of thousands have fled border region as Turkey's military pushes into Kurdish-held areas in northeastern Syria. Akcakale, Turkey-Syria border - As fighting raged in Ras al-Ain on Saturday, with Turkey's military claiming to be in control of the key Syrian border town, civilians continued to flee the violence. Ahmed Naso, who fled his home in Ras al-Ain when Turkey launched its offensive on Wednesday,...

Three weeks after the first round vote, Tunisians are set to choose their president in a runoff election. Tunis, Tunisia - A week after the parliamentary election and three weeks since the first presidential poll,  some seven million voters are set to choose the country's president in a runoff vote, where the outcome and aftermath are all but certain. On Sunday's ballot...

A photography exhibition documenting a life-changing trip that students at Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar (WCM-Q), a Qatar Foundation (QF) partner university, recently made to Tanzania has opened at Multaqa. ‘Experience Tanzania’ – held in collaboration with QF Art and set to run until December 1 – illustrates a service-learning trip which saw WCM-Q’s trainee doctors travel to the East...

HEC Paris will take part in the University Expo Qatar on October 16 and 17 at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Centre (DECC) to promote its executive programmes for  managers and leaders. Presented by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Qatar, the two-day exhibition will host inspirational talks, seminars and opportunities to discuss education and career choices with...

Nasser Bin Khaled (NBK) Automobiles, the authorised general distributor of Mercedes-Benz in Qatar, has announced a special offer on the Mercedes-Benz V-Class. The V-Class is now available at a special price with a package of benefits, including free registration, one-year insurance, two-year warranty and a one-year or 40,000km (whichever comes first) service package with the option of trade-in, the company...

QIIB announced the winner of its final draw as well as three new winners of the weekly prizes as part of the bank’s summer campaign held from August 1 to September 25. The campaign allowed QIIB Visa (credit and debit) card holders to win “rewarding” cash prizes when using their cards inside and outside Qatar. Abdulla Ojan al-khayareen won the final...

Rain and thundery conditions were reported from parts of the country yesterday, and the Qatar Met department has said there is a chance of scattered rain in some places today as well. Images and videos posted on social media, including the Met department’s Twitter and Facebook pages, showed rain and hail in different places – including Sheehaniya – yesterday. The department...

Ooredoo has announced that it is running a competition for Qatar University (QU) to find the advertising talent of Qatar’s future. Students at QU’s College of Business and Economics (CBE) are invited to form teams of five to enter the competition, in which they will need to create and present a complete end-to-end advertising campaign to excite Qatar’s citizens and...

The Qatari song festival, held at Qatar National Theatre on Friday night, enthralled the audience as they wished for more such musical treats in the future. Held under the patronage and in the presence of HE the Minister of Culture and Sports Salah bin Ghanem bin Nasser al-Ali, Friday’s event was attended by a big audience and turned out be...

Eight contestants were whittled down to seven as Abdullah Alghaitabi was the first contestant eliminated from Qatar Foundation’s edutainment reality TV show, Stars of Science. During Season 11’s concept prototyping episode, the top eight immersed themselves in a fierce battle with time to answer the jury’s question: “Will it work?”. Defending their prototypes, several contestants excelled in this stage and...

Some 11,076 abandoned vehicles have been removed from different parts of the country since the start of the year, the Ministry of Municipality and Environment has said in a statement, quoting an official. The statement noted that the Joint Committee for Removing Abandoned Vehicles has held its regular meeting, headed by Brigadier Ali Salman al-Mohannadi. The meeting was attended by...

More than 3,000 women attend FIFA World Cup qualifying match in Tehran to watch Iran beat Cambodia 14-0. Iranian women have watched the country's national football team play after authorities allowed them to buy tickets for the first time in decades, celebrating their long-awaited access to the national stadium but also paying tribute to the "Blue Girl" fan who died last month. Iran, one of...

For nearly 40 years, female spectators have been banned from entering football and other sports stadiums in Iran. Waving flags and snapping selfies, thousands of Iranian women on Thursday attended a football match freely for the first time in decades, after FIFA threatened to suspend the country over its controversial stadium restrictions. Elated female fans wore the national green, white and...

Thousands of civilians flee from border areas as Turkey presses assault against Kurdish forces for second straight day. Turkey has launched a major military operation in northeast Syria. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the offensive is aimed at removing Kurdish-led forces from the border area and creating a "safe zone" so millions of Syrian refugees can be returned. More: Look: Civilians fleeing Turkey's operation in Syria ...