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The General Directorate of Traffic will conduct an awareness drive in order to make pedestrians aware of their rights and responsibilities, with the aim of preventing traffic violations on country’s roads.
The campaign will be carried out by the directorate in co-operation with the Public Relations Department at the Ministry of Interior (MoI), and will also involve the expatriate communities,...
Ten students of Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) have been awarded grants by the Qatar National Research Fund to pursue their research.
The Bachelor of Science in Foreign Affairs undergraduate students and their faculty mentors will receive a total of more than QR115,000 through the Undergraduate Research Experience Programme (UREP), it has been announced.
The winning proposals all have the element...
Ricardo Rossello announces he will not seek another term amid protests and mounting calls to quit over leaked chats.
Puerto Rico's Governor Ricardo Rossello announced on Sunday that he will not seek re-election next year after more than a week of protests demanding his resignation following the release of compromising chats.
"I have listened, and I am listening to you today," Rossello...
Two airlines cite unspecified security concerns but give no details about what may have prompted the move.
British Airways and Lufthansa have suspended flights to Egypt's capital, Cairo, over unspecified security concerns, giving no details about what may have prompted the move.
"We constantly review our security arrangements at all our airports around the world, and have suspended flights to Cairo...
A new vessel, the Ocean Viking, will conduct rescue work in the Mediterranean, humanitarian groups say.
The SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charities have relaunched migrant rescue operations off Libya, seven months after they were forced to abandon efforts using their ship Aquarius.
The two groups "are back at sea with a new vessel, the Ocean Viking, to conduct search and rescue activities...
The blockade of Qatar, led by Saudi Arabia, has seen a slew of fake accounts open up and attempt to sway public opinion.
In this series of articles, Al Jazeera examines how Twitter in the Middle East has changed since the Arab Spring.
Government talking points are being magnified through thousands of accounts during politically fraught times and silencing people on...
Air raids by Syrian army and Russian ally kill at least 11, including three children and White Helmets volunteer.
Air strikes have killed at least 11 people in rebel-held northwestern Syria on Sunday, according to rescue workers and a war monitor.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that Syrian government air strikes killed six people, including a child, in the village...
A gargantuan heatwave yesterday hunkered down over the central and eastern United States, sending residents to cooling centres and inflicting on Washington a heat index of 106F (41C) with even steamier conditions in the forecast.
“It’s pretty hot right now from the Plains states all the way through the Mississippi Valley to the East Coast,” said Alex Lamers, a meteorologist...
At the entrance to Newcomb Hollow Beach, at the tip of the Cape Cod peninsula, the picture of a great white shark reminds swimmers that the US shores of the Atlantic must be shared with the ocean’s most feared predator.
The great whites swim to this region in the northeastern United States to hunt for one of their preferred foods...
Pakistan’s tribal areas held their first ever provincial elections yesterday amid high security, a key step bringing the northwestern region into the political mainstream after years of turmoil fuelled by militancy.
The seven remote districts along the border with Afghanistan were once a focal point in the global war on terror but were brought under the control of Pakistani authorities...
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said there was no hunger in the country, citing the lack of rail-thin poor people in the streets as proof.
Speaking to foreign journalists, Bolsonaro blamed “populists” for propagating “a big lie” that some of Brazil’s 209 million people did not have enough to eat.
“There is no hunger,” the far-right leader said, noting Brazil “was rich...
Thousands of Puerto Ricans, led by protesters on horseback with some banging drums and singing, marched on the governor’s residence demanding that he resign over hundreds of vulgar and offensive leaked chat messages.
The march on Governor Ricardo Rossello’s official San Juan residence was the latest in a week of sometimes violent protests over the messages attacking political adversaries, some...
US, Italian and Russian astronauts blasted into space yesterday, headed for the International Space Station (ISS), in a launch coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Nasa’s Andrew Morgan and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency set off on a six-hour journey to the orbiting science lab...
More than 22,000 people packed a Moscow square yesterday to demand free and fair local elections, incensed by the authorities’ refusal to put popular opposition candidates on the ballot.
Staging their largest protest rally in years, opposition leaders such as President Vladimir Putin’s top opponent Alexei Navalny and ordinary Muscovites gathered after authorities refused to register independent candidates seeking to...
