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His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, His Highness the Deputy Amir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani and HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani sent on Saturday cables of congratulations to Colombian President Ivan Duque on the anniversary of his country's Independent Day. Source:gulf-times.com

The Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) has tweeted some images of the under-construction Al Thumama Stadium in Doha. “Al Thumama Stadium is looking great! Bleacher installation is nearing completion and installation of the columns that will support the façade is under way. After the successful completion of the roof big lift, installation of the roof structural steel...

Auto Class Cars, the authorised distributor of MG in Qatar, has launched a special offer on the 2020 MG ZS crossover. The model is available at the MG showroom on Salwa Road. Valid until August 15, the offer allows customers to buy the car at “low monthly instalments” starting from QR1,327, in addition to providing a “lot of benefits”, including six...

Qatar Red Crescent Society’s (QRCS) medical convoy to Turkey has completed its work there, performing major surgeries for Syrian refugees at SEVG Hospital in Reyhanli, a town on the Syria-Turkey border. Funded by charity from donors in Qatar, the convoy was conducted in partnership with Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC). The medical team comprised six surgeons of urology, ENT and paediatric surgery....

The all-new 2019 Maserati Quattroporte “brings cutting-edge technologies and Italian beauty to the luxury sports sedan arena”. “For the model year 2019, the all-new Quattroporte gained a handful of exterior and interior refinements - all making it look more luxurious, athletic and appealing than ever. Undoubtedly, it is the world’s only super-sedan,” a statement notes. Billed as the “world’s first luxury...

Colombia’s constitutional court has maintained a judicial ban on the aerial spraying of illicit coca crops with glyphosate, saying the government would first have to prove that the weedkiller is not harmful to human health and the environment. President Ivan Duque’s government had asked the court to lift the ban, arguing that glyphosate — suspected of being carcinogenic — is...

Philip Hammond has suggested he is prepared to vote to bring down a Boris Johnson government should the likely new prime minister push for a no-deal Brexit. In an outspoken intervention days before Johnson is expected to win the keys to Downing Street, the chancellor said it was “absolutely necessary” for the UK to extend its EU membership beyond October...

South Africa’s ethics watchdog said yesterday that President Cyril Ramaphosa misled parliament last year over a 500,000-rand ($36,000, €32,000) donation to his campaign fund from a company facing extensive corruption allegations. Analysts said the damning report by the country’s ombudswoman, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, could boost Ramaphosa’s opponents within the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party, which is riven by in-fighting. Mkhwebane determined...

Kenya has formally launched Africa’s biggest wind power plant, a mammoth project in a gusty stretch of wilderness that already provides nearly one-fifth of the country’s energy needs. The $680mn (€600mn) scheme, a sprawling 365-turbine wind farm on the eastern shores of Lake Turkana, is delivering 310 megawatts of renewable power to the national grid of East Africa’s most dynamic...

Details emerged Friday of the horrifying blaze that ripped through a Japanese anime firm, killing dozens including people who tried in vain to reach the roof, but the motive for the suspected arson remained unclear. Eyewitnesses described a fire that was like "looking at hell", after a man apparently doused the production company office in the city of Kyoto with...

A massive heatwave that has enveloped the US Midwest pushed into the Northeast yesterday, ushering in temperatures that could top 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38°C) in Washington, D.C., and leading utilities to take steps to prevent power outages. The huge blob of warm air is likely to blanket the region, home to a third of the US population, through tomorrow with...

Philippine police have recommended sedition charges against the vice president and other opposition figures, a move slammed yesterday as an attempt to stifle dissent under President Rodrigo Duterte. Police allege Vice President Leni Robredo, Catholic Church leaders and opposition politicians had plotted to destabilise the Duterte government by implicating him in the narcotics trade. Duterte launched a war against the drug...

Rain-swollen rivers in Bangladesh broke through at least four embankments, submerging dozens of villages and doubling the number of people fleeing their homes overnight to 400,000 in one of the worst floods in recent years, officials said yesterday. Heavy rains and overflowing rivers have swamped 23 districts in northern and northwestern Bangladesh, officials said. At least 30 people have been killed...

An elderly South Korean man died yesterday after setting himself on fire outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul as a bitter diplomatic dispute over wartime forced labour compensation took a fatal turn. The row has seen Tokyo restrict exports of chemicals vital to Seoul’s world-leading chip and smartphone industry in an escalation of a decades-long dispute over Japanese forced labour...