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Hamad International Airport. Visitor numbers to Qatar are down by 6 per cent in the first six months of 2016, compared to the same period last year. (Courtesy: Hamad International Airport) With plans to attract 7 million visitors by 2030, Qatar is overhauling its tourist visa policy. Last week, the head of Qatar Airways announced that visitors from India, China...

A disturbing video from a 2011 corporate speech shows Donald Trump sexually humiliating a woman in front of thousands of people and going in for what appears to be a nonconsensual kiss, the Huffington Post's Ryan Grim reports. The woman is Jennifer Hawkins, the 2004 Miss Universe winner from Australia. In the video, Trump calls Hawkins onstage to join him after...

 29 Oct 2016 - 9:30 Charito B Plaza (second left), Director General of Philippine Economic Zone Authority, and Sharon S Garin (third left), Deputy Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, jointly cut the ribbon to mark the opening of the Philippine Property and Investment Show – Qatar 2016, at The Splash Water Park in Katara. Pic: Baher Amin...

October 29, 2016 at 12:45 am | Published in: Middle East, News, Palestine, Qatar Qatari construction materials in Gaza October 29, 2016 at 12:45 am Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Bin Jassim Al-Thani confirmed his country’s on-going efforts to achieve Palestinian reconciliation and end the division lasting years. In a tweet posted by the minister after a meeting with Palestinian President...

IAAF president Sebastian Coe. Credit: AFP    Sebastian Coe said on Friday that Qatar could move the Summer Olympics to later in the calendar year if the Gulf country ever successfully bids to host the Games. Speaking in Doha, where he met heads of the Asian Athletics Association (AAA), Coe said athletics had to prove flexible if it wanted new countries to...

OCTOBER 28, 201612:38PM Suman Das, 46, was arrested at Manchester Airport after the 18-year old victim claimed he touched her between her legs on a Qatar Airways flight. Picture: Supplied The SunNews Corp Australia Network Email a friend AN Indian businessman who molested a British girl during a seven hour flight to the UK while his wife was sat beside him was...

Posted By: Sulman Alion: 10/29/2016 - 09:17In: Breaking News, Highlights, Pakistan ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has offered Qatar all possible technical assistance for setting up military hardware production facilities on Transfer of Technology (ToT) basis as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Pakistan, Qatar and Turkey can set up joint ventures for undertaking defence related manufacturing. The development came on Thursday as Qatar’s Minister of...

Valentino Rossi during free practice at Sepang this week CREDIT: VINCENT THIAN/AP Ian Marsden 28 OCTOBER 2016 • 3:17PM The 2016 World Superbike season draws to a close this weekend in the Arabian desert under the floodlights of the Losail International circuit of Qatar. Think what you want about the merits of a World championship race been held in front...

Mall of Qatar Mall of Qatar rendering The under-construction Mall of Qatar experienced a “small fire” yesterday, but there were no injuries or damage, the shopping center has said. This is at least the second fire to break out at MOQ in the past six months. In April, a much-larger blaze took hours for Civil Defense to put out. At the time, MOQ said that...

Share16 +1 Tweet Pin1 Share Stumble SHARES17 Here we will talk about the list of top 10 most expensive weddings of all times. We all know that weddings are the most celebrated occasion in the world and people spend a lot on them. In past, there was no trend of expensive weddings and people mostly wanted to have simple weddings but now the situation is changed....

The organising body announced the death, which occurred on Saturday  Committee had denied any work-related fatalities on World Cup sites Human rights groups have criticised Qatar's track record in the past The UN have urged Qatar to address workers' rights ahead of World Cup  By TOM FINN, REUTERS PUBLISHED: 11:22 GMT, 23 October 2016 | UPDATED: 15:13 GMT, 23 October 2016 A...

(Representational Image)   Riyadh: Saudi national Mohammed bin Aqla bi Mahilan Al-Sharari was executed in Al-Joof for smuggling a large quantity of amphetamine pills. The criminal court convicted the defendant, who confessed to the crime, and sentenced him to capital punishment. The Saudi Court of Appeals and the High Court both upheld the death sentence.

HMC Metro Square of HBK Medical City Announcing the launch of its largest-ever recruitment drive, Hamad Medical Corp. (HMC) said it will hire thousands of employees in the coming months. In a statement today, HMC said it is working to fill 2,690 vacancies for clinical and non-clinical staff by year-end. The doctors, nurses and staff will work in new hospitals and healthcare centers that are expected...

All photos courtesy of QNA Hundreds of dignitaries, senior state officials and locals joined the royal family yesterday to perform funeral prayers for former Emir Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani. The Grandfather Emir, who ruled the country for 23 years, died on Sunday at the age of 84. Prayers were held under tight security after Asr at the Imam Mohammed bin Abdel Wahab (state)...