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Three killed in Lebanon as militant blows himself up during raid A suspected Islamist militant and two members of his family were killed in northern Lebanon on Saturday, after the man blew himself up during an army raid on his home, security and medical sources said. It was the latest in a series of arrest raids across the country since two...

San Bernardino shooters 'supporters' of ISIS, terror group says (CNN) - ISIS militants described the two people who stormed a party in Southern California and shot 14 people to death as "supporters" of the terror group. The terrorists made the declaration on their official radio station Saturday, days after the Wednesday attack that also left 21 injured. Tashfeen Malik and her husband,...

1st contract of mega housing project for workers signed The first contract for a mega accommodation project which will house 179,000 migrant workers in seven locations across the country was signed in the presence of Prime Minister and Minister of Interior HE Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al Thani on Thursday. The first accommodation centre, which will come up at...

Lekhwiya hit Wakrah for six as champions find form South Korean international Nam Tae-Hee scored a hat-trick as Lekhwiya thrashed Al Wakrah 6-2 to claim a third straight QSL victory. The reigning champions scored three goals in each half at Lekhwiya Stadium to follow up last week’s morale-boosting win over Al Sadd and confirm their return to form. Djamel Belmadi’s men took...

Cairo restaurant bomb: 16 killed in Molotov cocktail attack A Molotov cocktail hurled at a Cairo restaurant has killed at least 16 people and wounded two on Friday, Egyptian security officials have said. An official said the attacker was an employee who had been fired from the El Sayad restaurant in the Agouza area in the centre of the Egyptian capital. Victims...

Investigators consider terror ties in motives for California massacre The shooters in the massacre in San Bernardino may have been radicalized. An American-born Muslim and his wife had allegedly been in touch with known terrorism suspects. US intelligence officials reported that the San Bernardino gunman had been in contact with known Islamic extremists on social media. Details of the attack emerged...

Parliament debates anti-IS Bundeswehr mission Germany's parliament decides shortly on whether to join the 60-nation combat mission against the "Islamic State" (IS) militia in regions of Syria and Iraq. The request came from France after IS terror attacks in Paris. Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition was widely expected to use its majority in the Bundestag on Friday to approve the deployment of...

Qatar Gets Region’s First CyberKnife M6 Robotic Radiosurgery System The region’s first CyberKnife M6 FIM Suite was officially opened on 1 December 2015 in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the National Center for Cancer Care and Research (NCCCR). CyberKnife Suite at NCCCR Hamad Qatar HMC QATAR DOHACyberKnife is a state-of-the-art, revolutionary treatment technology for cancer – effectively a compact radiotherapy...

Aspire Zone Launches First IAU 50km World Championships During a press conference held yesterday at the Torch Hotel, Aspire Zone Foundation announced that it is hosting the first IAU 50KM World Championships, in collaboration with the International Association of Ultrarunners (IAU) and the Qatar Athletics Federation (QAF). The Championship will take place on Friday, 4 December. The unique event will be...

Qatar Airways Starts Non-Stop Daily Flights to Nagpur, India Qatar Airways now offers non-stop flights to Nagpur from Doha, effective 1 December 2015 taking the airline’s total weekly passenger flights from 95 to 102 across 13 key cities in India. Nagpur is third largest city in the Indian state of Maharashtra and is a major trade and business center. The city...

Brazil lawmakers launch impeachment proceedings against Rousseff Eduardo Cunha, the speaker of the lower house of Brazil's parliament, said on Wednesday that impeachment proceedings have been opened against President Dilma Rousseff. Cunha said he officially accepted an impeachment petition, which was filed by opposition figures on the grounds that Rousseff manipulated the budget to fill budget holes.  

San Bernardino shooters die battling police San Bernardino, California (CNN) - It started at a holiday party -- perhaps with a slight or a testy exchange, something that prompted Syed Rizwan Farook to storm off angrily. It ended in a bloodbath with 14 people dead and 17 more wounded -- the deadliest mass shooting in the United States since Sandy Hook. At...

Qatar: entry, work, residence and exit Qatar’s population has risen from around 600,000 in 2000 to in excess of 2 million at the end of 2013. It is among one of the most prosperous countries in the world and one of the fastest growing economies in the Middle East. Law No.(4) of 2009, Immigration Law, sets out regulations under which expatriates...

Qatar moving in the right direction to host 2022 World Cup: Thawadi Hassan al Thawadi, the Secretary-General of the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (SC) announced that external campaigns aimed at questioning the rights of Qatar in hosting the 2022 World Cup football will fail and stressed that the country was moving in the right direction towards achieving an...