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Palestinian officials dismiss $50bn investment and infrastructure proposal, say political solution must be found first. The United States has revealed a proposal to create a $50bn global investment fund for the Palestinians and neighbouring Arab states, designed to be the economic engine of the long-awaited US Middle East peace plan. The plan was posted on the White House website on Saturday, two days before a...

Citing a threat to national security, the US blacklists several Chinese technology firms and a government institute. The United States Department of Commerce said on Friday that it was adding several Chinese companies - and a government-owned institute involved in supercomputing with military applications - to its national security "entity list", which bars these parties from buying US parts and components without...

Voters set to choose among six candidates vying to succeed President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. Voters in Mauritania will head to the polls on Saturday to pick their next president, in what is expected to be the country's first peaceful transfer of power. Incumbent President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz will not contest the election after serving two five-year terms, despite opposition fears that he...

Son of late former president named several incumbent Egyptian officials as being responsible for his father's death. A son of the late former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has accused incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and a number of other officials of "killing" his father. Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president who was arrested after being overthrown in a military coup led by el-Sisi in 2013, died on Monday...

Hundreds demonstrate across Georgia over Russian MP scandal that prompted protest before heavy-handed police crackdown. Hundreds of anti-government demonstrators have taken to the streets in several Georgian cities, calling for justice over a brutal police crackdown on a mass anti-Russia protest. The rallies on Friday in the capital, Tbilisi, as well as the cities of Kutaisi and Batumi came a day after hundreds of...

Supreme Court tosses out Curtis Flowers's conviction in sixth trial of 1996 murders, citing racial bias. The United States Supreme Court on Friday threw out the murder conviction and death sentence for a black man in Mississippi because of a prosecutor's efforts to keep African Americans off the jury. The defendant already has been tried six times and now could face a...

Lawyers vow to appeal after judge rules against Maya Achi women who said they were raped during Guatemala's civil war. Guatemala City - Indigenous Maya Achi women who said they were raped by paramilitary group members during Guatemala's 36-year civil war suffered a major setback Friday in their nearly decade-long quest for justice. After the prosecution's testimonies, witness statements, documentation and reports,...

For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, Britain is set to obtain more power from zero-carbon sources than fossil fuels. National Grid has revealed that the milestone will be passed by the end of the year. By then, clean energy will have nudged ahead with 48% of generation, against 47% for coal and gas. The rest is biomass burning and energy...

Working long hours is linked to an increased risk of stroke, researchers say. Long hours were defined in the French study as more than 10 hours on at least 50 days per year. People who did long hours for more than a decade were at the greatest risk of stroke, they suggest. But the UK's Stroke Association said there were lots of things people...

The US and China are 'in the mood for serious dialogue', says an editorial in the official China Daily newspaper. Upcoming trade talks between the leaders of Chinaand the United States are unlikely to immediately resolve major disagreements between the two sides but could start a new phase in negotiations, Chinese state media said on Thursday. China and the United States earlier this week...

The United States has told India it is considering caps on H-1B work visas for nations that force foreign companies to store data locally, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, widening the two countries' dispute over tariffs and trade. The plan to restrict the popular H-1B visa programme, under which skilled foreign workers are brought to the US each year, comes days before US...

US President Donald Trump hosts his Canadian counterpart Prime Minister Justin trudeau on Thursday to mend fences after last year’s diplomatic meltdown and to push the still un-ratified North American free trade deal. The two men have had a rocky relationship since Trump walked out of a G7 summit in Quebec last June, but are keen for the trade deal,...

QNA Doha Qatar University has climbed 56 positions to 276th place in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) rankings for world universities in 2020, becoming one of the most improved universities in the 2019 rankings. Qatar University President Dr Hassan Rashid al Derham said the university has made an amazing leap in the university rankings. “Everyone is proud because it reflects the success of...

QNA Doha The Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ (MoOFA) Diplomatic Institute on Thursday organised a seminar to acquaint the ministry’s officials with developments on Qatar’s legal cases against the blockading countries at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Dean of the College of Law Dr Mohamed bin Abdulaziz al Khulaifi, who is also the agent of Qatar at the ICJ, delivered a lecture...