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QNA Doha The Amir His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani held talks with several world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Iranian President Dr Hassan Rouhani and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on the sidelines of the 5th Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA), in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on...

Did the world notice? Ten days ago, the political lethargy which Russiahad descended into since Vladimir Putin won another six years in power last year was unexpectedly disrupted. The arrest of a journalist triggered a chain of events that shook Russian society awake and pushed it to unprecedented action. The story of shocking police transgressions and the mass mobilisation that they provoked is indeed...

Saudi authorities declared beIN illegal in the kingdom, a proxy battle in the nation's boycott of Qatar two years ago. FIFA has asked a Saudi-backed satellite broadcaster to stop transmitting pirated feeds of Women's World Cup games from a Qatari network. Bootlegged feeds from Doha-based beIN Sports of top football games have been broadcast by Saudi-based BeoutQ since 2017. FIFA, which sells the exclusive rights to...

For most university students, the end of the academic year means a break from studies and a chance to relax with family and friends. However, at the Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q), 80 students including five from other universities in Education City, are proving that the summer vacation could be an ideal time to earn valuable course credits. For Sara...

Tribune News Network Doha A research team from Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) has created a mathematical model to predict how human tissue responds to the physical stresses of pregnancy. Hasan Demirkoparan and Heiko Topol’s digital 3D model could lead to a new tool for doctors to measure the risk of miscarriage or pre-term delivery. The model may be particularly useful in...

The Ministry of Municipality and Environment’s (MME) agricultural quarantine offices inspected 7,070 imported shipments, weighing more than 147,000 tonnes, of various agricultural products in May. The officials destroyed 92 consignments, weighing more than 72 tonnes, as they contained damaged products or products that violate the Agricultural Quarantine Law. The agricultural quarantine is a first line of defence to protect the country’s...

QNA Geneva Qatar is taking part in the 108th session of the International Labor Conference, which is currently being held in Geneva, Switzerland, with a delegation led by Minister of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs HE Yousef bin Mohamed al Othman Fakhroo. The minister participated in the coordination meeting of the GCC Labour Ministers to coordinate the topics on the agenda...

Minister of Transport and Communications HE Jassim bin Saif Ahmed al Sulaiti held separate meetings with Ambassador of Sweden to Qatar HE Ewa Polano, Ambassador of Venezuela HE Giuseppe Angelo Yoffreda Yorio and Ambassador of China HE Li Chen, in Doha on Thursday. The meetings discussed cooperation ties between Qatar and the three friendly countries in the fields of...

Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs HE Dr Ahmed bin Hassan al Hammadi met Chinese Ambassador to Qatar HE LI Chen on the occasion of the end of his term in the country, on Thursday. Hammadi thanked the ambassador for his efforts to promote and strengthen bilateral relations, and wished him success in his future mission. (QNA) Source:qatar-tribune.com

New legislation allows autonomous vehicles to be tested in the state, though driverless roll-out remains far off. Self-driving vehicles with no human at the wheel will be able to operate in Florida  - once they are finally ready for prime time - under a bill signed on Thursday by Governor Ron DeSantis. DeSantis said he hopes to use the law to...

Whoever wins the succession battle in the Tory party will face exactly the same Brexit conundrum that brought down May. And so the turmoil continues. Fresh out of European Parliament elections that witnessed both the Labour and, especially, Conservative parties receive a good shellacking, we now segue neatly onto the United Kingdom's next political earthquake - the replacement of the incumbent prime minister. In...

William Strampel acquitted on sexual misconduct charge but found guilty of neglect of duty and misconduct in office. A former dean who had oversight of now-imprisoned sports doctor Larry Nassar at Michigan State University in the United States was found guilty on Wednesday of neglect of duty and misconduct in office but acquitted on a more serious criminal sexual conduct charge. William Strampel, the ex-dean...

Three Turkish soldiers have been wounded while some equipment and facilities were damaged, Ankara says. Syrian government forces have attacked a Turkish observation point in Syria's Idlib province, Turkey's Defence Ministry has said, in what it assessed as a deliberate attack involving 35 mortar shells. Three Turkish soldiers were slightly wounded in the attack, the ministry said in a statement on Thursday, and some...

Competition to be the next British prime minister was rife even before Theresa May's resignation. The starting gun in the race to replace Theresa May as leader of Britain's Conservative Party was fired as she resigned on the morning of Friday 24 May. By the end of Monday 10 June, would-be leaders able to muster eight nominations from sitting MPs...