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Ooredoo has announced that it is acting as the official sponsor for a play being presented by the Centre for Empowerment and Welfare of the Elderly, under the umbrella of Qatar Foundation for Social Work. The play, titled Tales of My Grandfather, is being presented at Mall of Qatar to celebrate International Day of Older Persons over two days, until...

Qatar University (QU) hosted the ninth meeting of the International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE) Forum for Asia and the Pacific (APIF), which aims to strengthen the exchange between member countries and tackle challenges together. The forum fosters the core values of Asian and Pacific members’ friendship. The non-profit IAESTE, is an association of national committees...

Qatar General Organisation for Standardisation and Metrology (QGOSM), participated in the first meeting of the GCC Standardisation Organisation (GSO) in the Omani capital Muscat. Chairman of QGOSM, Engineer Mohamed bin Saud al-Musallam headed Qatar’s delegation to the meeting. The meeting discussed the results of the meeting of the team of specialists that preceded the meeting of the organisation, on the internal...

HE the Chief of Staff of the Qatar Armed Forces Lieutenant-General (Pilot) Ghanem bin Shaheen al-Ghanem, headed the delegation of Qatar participating in the meeting of the GCC Supreme Military Committee of the Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces held in the Omani capital Muscat yesterday. During the meeting, they discussed topics that contribute to enhancing the future...

Experts from the Qatar Civil Aviation Authority (QCAA) have organised a three-day training programme on the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA). Doha hosted the sessions as part of the ACT CORSIA initiative and Qatar’s role as a donor country selected by ICAO to provide direct and necessary assistance to a number of countries in the region...

Sony put to rest months of speculation yesterday by giving Wired more details about its highly anticipated next-gen game console, the PlayStation 5. It expects to unveil the PS5 in time for the 2020 holiday season, coinciding with the release of Microsoft’s own next-gen machine, the Xbox Scarlett. Both consoles will feature the latest AMD Ryzen processor and Navi graphics chipset, a...

First it was rejected. Then it was approved. And now the iOS app of HKMap.live, a real-time, volunteer-run, and crowdsourced map of the city’s protests, has been removed by Apple from its app store. In a statement, Apple said the app “has been used in ways that endanger law enforcement and residents in Hong Kong,” as well as to “target and ambush...

World powers fear Turkish offensive could threaten regional security and allow for the revival of ISIL. Turkey has launched a military operation against Kurdish positions in northeast Syria, just days after US troops pulled out of the area. Ankara says it is targeting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) and Kurdish-led forces who hold territory...

Former crown prince Mohamad bin Nayef visited Abdulaziz al-Fagham's family home to pay respects after his killing. When Major General Abdulaziz al-Fagham, a highly decorated bodyguard to Saudi ruler King Salman, was shot dead at a friend's house in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on September 28, many Saudi Twitter users took to the social media platform to express their shock. The...

The military is holding the two men, part of a cell notorious for beheading its hostages, at an undisclosed location. The United States has taken custody of two high-profile members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) armed group who became notorious for beheading hostages and boasting about it in videos. The two men, previously held in Syria by Kurdish-led fighters,...

Air raids and artillery fire pound border region before Turkish troops cross into Syria east of the Euphrates. Turkish forces began a ground offensive in northeastern Syria hours after fighter jets bombarded the border region as Ankara finally unleashed a long-threatened assault on the Kurdish-held territory. In a statement late on Wednesday, Turkey's defence ministry said troops had crossed into bordering Syria east of...

Turkish troops cross Syrian border east of the Euphrates River as UN expresses 'alarm' over Ankara's military push. Turkey has launched a military operation in northeast Syria. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the offensive - which began with air raids on Tuesday - is aimed at removing Kurdish-led forces from the border area and creating a "safe zone" to which millions of Syrian refugees can be...

Ooredoo announced yesterday that it is supporting the Qatar IT Conference and Exhibition (Qitcom 2019) as Strategic Sponsor for the event slated from October 29 to November 1 at the Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC). Qitcom 2019 is Qatar’s biggest digital event, bringing together a diverse ecosystem of stakeholders from the technology sector to exchange ideas, best practices, and experience...

The Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC) announced yesterday the key sponsors for the ‘Qatar IT Conference and Exhibition’ (Qitcom 2019), which will be held under the theme ‘Safe, Smart Cities’ from October 29 to November 1 at the Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC). The strategic sponsors for Qitcom 2019 are Qatar Free Zones Authority, Ooredoo, and Qatar National Bank,...