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Hundreds gather in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro to protest after the girl is killed by stray bullet during police operation.
Hundreds of residents in one of Rio de Janeiro's poorest neighbourhoods have marched to demand an end to violence in the Brazilian city after an eight-year-old girl was killed by a stray bullet during a police operation.
Saturday's rally, which featured shouts of...
With the commencement of a new academic year, Qatar Finance and Business Academy (QFBA), in collaboration with Northumbria University Newcastle, successfully concluded its orientation week to facilitate positive transition for its new incoming students.
Orientation week signifies the first step towards a successful academic year for new students where they are exposed to the university’s various departments, facilities and faculty.
Additionally,...
General Authority of Customs (GAC) chairman Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Jamal met with US Intellectual Property Enforcement co-ordinator Vishal Amin and his accompanying delegation in Doha yesterday, as part of his tour to discuss the enforcement of intellectual property with a number of governmental authorities in Qatar. The meeting focused on ways to enhance co-operation and the practices implemented by...
Qatar, represented by the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME), participated in the 55th International Society of City and Regional Planners Congress in Indonesian capital Jakarta yesterday.
The Qatari delegation was chaired by Assistant Undersecretary for Urban Planning Fahd Mohamed al-Qahtani.
On the sidelines of the meeting, al-Qahtani signed a contract that will see Qatar host the 56th edition of the...
Ooredoo, the region’s leading enabler of digital business innovation, has enhanced its VSAT Internet service for remote connectivity, with new packages featuring higher capacities and reduced cost.
Ooredoo’s VSAT Internet service enables organisations – especially in the oil and gas, transport and logistics, and emergency services industry sectors – to stay connected via reliable and fast satellite broadband services with...
Al Khor Mall, situated on the northeast coast of Qatar, is holding its first-ever food festival titled, the ‘Festival of Flavours’ to celebrate and showcase the various options available within the mall for “great gastronomic experiences” for visitors from all around Qatar.
The festival runs until October 15.
In conjunction with the Festival of Flavours, there will be a series of...
Humax, a leading gateway developer “dedicated to providing better content delivery systems for consumers through continuous research, development and innovation”, has appointed Jumbo Electronics as its official distributor in Qatar.
With 20 overseas subsidiaries and branches across the globe, Humax currently provides 80 major broadcasting companies and mobile carriers with high-quality video gateways, set-top boxes and broadband gateways, Jumbo Electronics...
As part of ‘Doha OIC Youth Capital 2019’ activities, the Ministry of Culture and Sports in collaboration with Islamic Co-operation Youth Forum (ICYF) concluded the activities of Doha Oasis for Innovation on Friday.
The Doha Oasis for Innovation was held under the motto “The Youth is the Power of Nation” in collaboration with the Qatari Scientific Club and under the...
Qatar has asserted that it efforts to protect human rights stem from its Permanent Constitution, which considers the promotion and protection of human rights as the backbone of the comprehensive reform policy (constitutional, economic, social and cultural), pursued by the country. Attention to human rights promotion and protection has been reflected in the development and strengthening of the human...
Australia has had to rethink firefighting strategies to protect people and property as another baking summer looms.
Woronora, Australia - On a Sunday morning in the southern suburbs of Sydney the sun is shining. There's barely a smudge of cloud in the sky and it's warm. Some seven degrees warmer than usual for this time of year.
A few hundred kilometres further...
New gov't made changes to handling of reconstruction funds, but survivors say more must be done to fully recover.
Mexico City - Alejandra Castillo and her husband had been living in their brand-new, Mexico City apartment for only six months when a 7.1-magnitude earthquake shattered their entire building block to the ground two years ago, taking their apartment down with it. Two women...
Disappearance of meadows and prairies, expansion of farmlands, use of pesticide blamed for 29 percent drop since 1970.
The number of birds in the United States and Canada has dropped by an astonishing 29 percent, or almost three billion, since 1970, scientists said on Thursday, saying their findings signalled a widespread ecological crisis.
Grassland birds were the most affected, because of the disappearance of meadows and...
Rights group says arbitrary arrests, violence in custody amounts to torture. Police say they acted with restraint.
Amnesty International has accused Hong Kong police of torture and other abuses in their handling of more than three months of pro-democracy protests in the city, a charge denied by police who say they have shown restraint in the face of increased violence.
Anti-government protesters, many masked and...
Protesters across Asia Pacific demand governments take urgent steps to prevent a climate change catastrophe.
Tens of thousands of protesters, many of them school students, gathered in towns and cities across the Asia Pacific region on Friday, at the start of a worldwide day of protest in the run-up to a United Nations climate change summit next week.
From the Pacific Islands, many of which...
