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Qatar Airways Fined by DOT for Airspace Violations Qatar Airways was fined today by the US Department of Transportation for violating FAA-prohibited airspace. Specifically, Travel Weekly reported that 16 of Qatar’s flights entered prohibited airspace; 8 went into Yemeni airspace, 7 went into Iraqi airspace, and 1 went into Ukranian airspace. According to the official DOT dockets, these flights were operated between 2014...

L.A. 2024 committee to present bid to Olympic leaders in Qatar Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will make a pitch Tuesday in Doha, Qatar, for L.A. to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. Six-time track gold medalist Allyson Felix will take part in in presenting LA 2024's bid. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) David WhartonContact Reporter The private committee hoping to...

Tribune News Network Doha FOLLOWING the success of its iOS mobile app released earlier this year, Hamad International Airport (HIA) has launched the Android version of its innovative iBeacon enabled HIA Qatar app, offering more of HIA's customers an interactive experience while travelling through the world's leading airport. HIA has also released a major upgrade for its iOS app, which now makes...

HH the Emir, HH the Father Emir Perform Istisqaa Prayer Doha, November 10 (QNA) - HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and HH the Father Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani joined worshippers in performing Istisqaa (rain-seeking) Prayer at Al-Wajba prayer ground on Thursday morning. HH the Deputy Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Thani, HE Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Khalifa...

Doha, November 11 (QNA) - HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani held via telephone a conversation with President-elect of the United States Donald Trump congratulating the latter on winning the elections. HH the Emir expressed his best wishes for Trump and for bilateral relations and cooperation to develop further during his term to benefit the people of both...

  QDB the Governor of Qatar Central Bank (QCB) Sheikh Abdullah bin Saud al-Thani, who is also chairman of Qatar Development Bank (QDB) is launching on Sunday the second edition of the Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) Qatar. Slated at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Centre until November 17, QDB said the GEW is designed to promote entrepreneurship by connecting startup owners, investors,...

  Between 2005 to 2014, Germany welcomed more than 6,000,000 people. Two essential questions about integration must be put on the table: 1) What do we ask of newcomers? And 2) What do we do to those who do not accept our conditions? In Europe, these two questions of integration were never asked of anyone. In the new migrant...

Qatar's investigation into the death of a worker on a 2022 World Cup stadium construction site has led to "extended over-sight" of health and safety procedures, officials said Wednesday. The man, who organizers have said was the first to die in a work-related accident, was named Wednesday as Anil Kumar Pasman from Nepal. He was 29 when he was killed...

FIFA general secretary Fatma Samoura said on Thursday that football’s governing body “respects” Qatari culture regarding the sensitive issue of selling alcohol in stadiums at the 2022 World Cup set to take place in the country. “We do respect the customs and culture of the country," said Samoura, following a meeting between FIFA and Qatari officials in Doha. “The last...

FNV union says football body should have demanded abolition of kafala migrant labour system ahead of 2022 World Cup Construction workers queue for buses back to their accommodation camp in Doha, Qatar. Photograph: EPA Fifa is facing legal action in the Swiss courts over its alleged complicity in the mistreatment of migrant workers in Qatar ahead of the 2022 World Cup,...

Efforts must be made to sterilise a breeding ground that could create more Irish Isis fighters. Even if the threat is moderate, our desire for peace ought not to be Khalid Kelly, born Terence Edward. ‘offensive diatribes’. Photograph: @Raqqa_SL The UN has made it compulsory on European countries to arrest anyone intending or even voicing intent to travel to Syria and...

Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania in October. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images An estimated 150,000 of America’s 1.4 million armed forces personnel are stationed abroad. There are an estimated 35,000 US service personnel dotted about the Middle East, but the US does not release precise information on all their locations Afghanistan barely featured in the election campaign, but when Donald...

Early data suggest a clear majority of white women voted Republican, and supporters say Trump’s offensive remarks didn’t affect their decision Become a Guardian supporter or make a contribution In interviews, white women emphasized the importance of having a president who would nominate the right kind of supreme court justice. Photograph: Mark Wilson/Getty Images For months, the image of the...

Qatar Airways turns 20 in 2017. The once tiny regional airline has become a global powerhouse and is reshaping oneworld, the alliance to which it belongs. Qatar has stakes in IAG and LATAM, and Qatar Airways CEO H.E. Akbar Al Baker has told CAPA that in the near future he expects Qatar to make acquisitions in two additional airlines,...