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Political strategist Lynton Crosby asked for $6.7m to get football event awarded to another country, news report says. One of the world's best-known political operatives offered to work on a campaign to cancel the 2022 Qatar World Cup, according to documents seen by the Guardian newspaper. Sir Lynton Crosby, a UK-based Australian political strategist, personally signed the pitch that aimed to tarnish...

Pakistan's economic growth is set to slow from 5.2 percent last year to about 4 percent in 2019. Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan said his nation needed "painful" economic reforms to cut back on its debt soon after meeting the head of the IMF. In a speech at the World Government Summit in Dubai on Sunday, Khan said his government faced a massive fiscal deficit when...

Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan in Kabul discussed peace talks and the fight against the Taliban. Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan says there is no order to withdraw US forces from Afghanistanand the Afghan government should participate in peace talks with the Taliban, in remarks on a surprise trip to Afghanistan on Monday. Shanahan met the US commander and troops and Afghan President Ashraf...

Several verified Twitter accounts have been taken over by pro-Saudi operatives and some have been used to promote Saudi Arabia or its leadership, according to an academic who researches digital propaganda and Twitter bots. At least four verified Twitter accounts, including one that belonged to a US meteorologist who died over two years ago, appear to have been hacked and sold to pro-Saudi entities, Marc Owen...

Satyendra Pathak Doha Qatar National Cement Company (QNCC) has succeeded in meeting 100 percent demand for all types of cement in the country and the company is looking for markets in the region to export its products, the company’s chairman said on Monday. Talking to Qatar Tribune on the sidelines the company’s ordinary and extraordinary general assembly meeting, QNCC Chairman and Managing...

QNA Doha The Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani honoured the winners of Qatar's State Awards for appreciation and encouragement in science, arts and literature. Those honored were Dr Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Turki Al Subaie in the field of education, Mohammed Jassim Al Khulaifi in the field of museums and archeology, Dr Saif Saeed Saif Al Suwaidi in the field...

QNA Rome The Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani and Italian President Sergio Mattarella discussed bilateral relations and the means to develop them in various fields, especially investment, education and health, during the official talks at the presidential palace (The Quirinale) in Rome on Monday. A number of regional and international issues, including the Gulf crisis, Libya and Palestine, were...

(Provided by Global News) Forty-three foreign workers who were allegedly exploited by human traffickers now have housing and employment after police rescued them during raids in Barrie and Wasaga Beach last week. During a news conference in Barrie Monday, police revealed a “very disturbing” operation that brought men from Mexico with promises of work visas, education or permanent residency. Instead, the men...

WASHINGTON — A new U.S. intelligence report warns that both China and Russia are investing in weapons that could attack U.S. satellites and assets in space, and that both nations are now preparing to use space as a battlefield. Last month the Defense Intelligence Agency released a report about China's military capabilities, warning that China was making advances in counterspace technology that...

Newly released internal FBI emails showed the agency's highest-ranking officials scrambling to answer to Hillary Clinton's lawyer in the days prior to the 2016 presidential election, on the same day then-FBI Director James Comey sent a bombshell letter to Congress announcing a new review of hundreds of thousands of potentially classified emails found on former Rep. Anthony Weiner's laptop. The trove of documents released by the FBI, in...

Cliff Sims, the former White House communications aide who wrote an insider account of life working for President Trump, is suing the president in his official capacity, alleging that he used his campaign organization as a “cutout” to improperly seek retribution against former employees and keep them from invoking their First Amendment rights. Mr. Sims was a White House aide...

MONTREAL - The RCMP and other police forces arrested 15 people Monday in a series of raids in Montreal and Toronto targeting what investigators say is an extensive international money laundering network with ties to organized crime. The RCMP, working with the Canada Revenue Agency, began the probe dubbed "Collector" in 2016 and wrapped it up last spring before launching...

pinterest save SaveLuxembourg Becomes First Country to Make All Public Transit Free Luxembourg Tram. Image via Creative Commons Luxembourg is set to become the world's first country to make all of its public transportation free. The newly re-elected prime minister Xavier Bettel and the coalition government have announced...

Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Causeway. Image Courtesy of Hyundai E&C The world's longest bridge by Hyundai E&C and Combined Group Contracting is nearing completion in Kuwait. Called the Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah causeway, the $3 billion project is one of the largest infrastructure projects in the world. Running a total length of over 30...