BenArmani
The Peninsula Online
Probably the last few weekends before the weather becomes too harsh for outdoor events. So take your pick from these interesting activities lined up before heading out.
International Dates Exhibition 2019
Aiming to meet the surge in demand for dates during Ramadan, the Ministry of Municipality and Environment has organised an international dates exhibition ahead of the holy month...
QNA
Doha
Qatar has put comprehensive plans in place to reduce accidents, injuries and work-related diseases, Minister of Administrative Development, Labor and Social Affairs HE Yousuf bin Mohamed al Othman Fakhroo has said.
In a speech during the opening of the Occupational Safety and Health Conference, Fakhroo said the Qatari labour law includes provisions stipulating the necessity of complying with the requirements...
Al Mana Malls has unveiled plans for the grand opening of Doha Mall in February 2020.
Built on a plot of 125,000 square metres with a total of 270,000 square metres built up area with around 100,000 sqm of gross leasable area, Doha Mall will be the only super-regional mall in the southern part of Doha.
Doha Mall comprises a combination...
Qatar is moving ahead with its strategies to reduce road fatalities and complying with the World Health Organisation and UN sustainable development goals, Director General of Traffic Maj General Mohammed Saad al Kharji has said.
“Qatar has already implemented these recommendations, through a plan to reduce pedestrian mortality from 32 percent in 2017 to 17 percent in 2022, as well...
The US military has reported a major spike in sexual assaults despite years of efforts to address the problem.
Figures show 20,500 instances of unwanted sexual contact occurred in 2018, up from 14,900 in 2016 which is the last time a survey was conducted.
Alcohol was involved in one third of cases, and female recruits ages 17 to 24 are at...
Afghan National Army troops in Helmand province, Afghanistan. August 2016. © Abdul Malik / Reuters
A US government watchdog said it became even harder to gauge whether Washington’s mission in Afghanistan is successful or not after the military stopped measuring how much territory is controlled by Western-backed forces.
The US-led NATO mission Resolute Support stopped...
A fisherman leaves for a safer place after tying up his boats ahead of cyclone Fani on the outskirts of Visakhapatnam, India © Reuters / Stringer
An ‘extremely severe cyclonic storm’ with 125mph gusts of wind has sparked a massive evacuation of nearly 800,000 people from India’s east coast, amid warnings that it could...
West Bengal state, crucial for Modi's hopes of retaining power, takes centre stage in the staggered general election.
West Bengal state, crucial for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's hopes of retaining power, took centre stage in India's staggered general election on Monday after clashes broke out between supporters of his party and a regional challenger.
Security forces chased away people wielding sticks after workers...
A foreign military intervention in Venezuela could have disastrous consequences.
Venezuela is currently experiencing one of the greatest economic and humanitarian catastrophes in recent memory. After two decades of inept economic policies, inflation surpassed one million percent at the end of 2018, and more than three million Venezuelans fled the country in an attempt to escape the famine that has condemned one in...
Qatar has embraced a domestic and foreign policy independent of Saudi's regional hegemony, making it a target.
Doha, Qatar - Two years after Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt severed diplomatic ties with Qatar and imposed a land, air and sea blockade, the Gulf crisis shows little sign of ending any time soon.
In fact, according to Gulf...
India says it will seek downgrading of Pakistan on terrorism financing list day after Masood Azhar sanctioned by the UN.
A day after the United Nations added Masood Azhar, the leader of a Pakistan-based armed group, to its list of "global terrorists", India said it will seek the downgrading of Pakistan on the global "terrorism financing" list.
India's finance minister, Arun Jaitley, on Thursday said that...
Supporters holds Venezuelan and U.S. national flags as they listen to opposition leader Juan Guaidó speak during a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. Guaidó called for Venezuelans to fill streets around the country Wednesday to demand President Nicolas Maduro's ouster. Maduro is also calling for his supporters to rally. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the...
President Trump with his three oldest children, Eric, left, Ivanka and Donald Jr., in 2017. In a suit filed on Monday, the president and his family members argue that the Democrat-controlled House committee leaders who issued subpoenas engaged in a broad overreach.CreditCreditTimothy A. Clary/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
President Trump, his three eldest children and his private company filed a...
Butina, who asked for leniency at Friday's hearing, will be deported to Russia after completing her sentence.
Admitted Russian agent Maria Butina was sentenced to 18 months in United States prison on Friday after the Siberia native, her voice breaking with emotion, begged a judge for mercy and expressed remorse for conspiring with a Russian official to infiltrate a gun rights group and...
