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  17 May 2018 - 12:34 Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza casts his ballot at a polling centre during the constitutional amendment referendum at School Ecofo de Buye in Mwumba commune in Ngozi province, northern Burundi, May 17, 2018. REUTERS/Evrard Ngendakumana By ELOGE WILLY KANEZA and RODNEY MUHUMUZA | AP BUJUMBURA, Burundi: Burundi is voting Thursday in a referendum proposing constitutional changes that could extend...

  18 May 2018 - 20:50 Equipment and apparatus are seen inside the laboratory of the National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB) in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo May 18, 2018. Reuters/Kenny Katombe By Tom Miles & Fiston Mahamba I Reuters GENEVA/KINSHASA:  Democratic Republic of Congo faces a "very high" public health risk from Ebola, but an outbreak that has already killed 25...

  18 May 2018 - 20:50 People and traffic are seen along a street in Ngaba commune of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo May 18, 2018. Reuters/Kenny Katombe By William Clowes I Bloomberg A Congolese health official said two more cases of Ebola have been identified in Mbandaka in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo. There are now three confirmed cases of the disease in...

  19 May 2018 - 13:10 Truck carries supplies to combat the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo in this May 16, 2018 picture obtained from social media video, in Brussels, Belgium. DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS/MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES (MSF)/via REUTERS AFP Kinshasa, Three new Ebola cases have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling northwest taking the number of suspected infections...

  18 May 2018 - 2:20 QNA Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Father Amir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani received yesterday scores of well-wishers on the advent of the Holy Month of Ramadan at Al Wajba Palace. H H the Amir and H H the Father Amir exchanged greetings with the well-wishers, praying to...

  19 May 2018 - 8:58 Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani addressing the opening session of the Emergency Summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Palestine, in Istanbul, yesterday. The Peninsula Istanbul: Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday addressed the opening session of the Emergency Summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on...

  19 May 2018 - 9:21 By Raynald C Rivera / The Peninsula DOHA: For the first time it opened for Ramadan, the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) Park Bazaar was yesterday a major destination for people who wanted to spend their Ramadan weekends sampling authentic international cuisines while buying a variety of products from home-based   businesses. The atmosphere which characterises the holy month...

  19 May 2018 - 9:41 Picture by: Salim Matramkot The Peninsula Worshippers perform Tarawih prayers (special night prayers during the fasting month of Ramadan) at the Dar Al Salam Mosque in Doha.

  19 May 2018 - 9:48 Print screen of a video shared by Ambassador Sheikha Alia Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani on social media. QNA New York: The State of Qatar has reiterated its commitment to fulfilling the international obligations dictated by its partnership with the international community to achieve the goals and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations, stressing that maintaining...

  18 May 2018 - 2:18 QNA Doha: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, met here yesterday with the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship for the Government of Canada, Ahmed Hussen. The meeting dealt with bilateral relations and means to bolster them in addition to regional and international issues of common concern. The...

  16 May 2018 - 0:00 QNB Group noted in its ‘China Economic Insight 2018’ published yesterday that it sees China’s GDP growth slowing to 6.4 percent in 2018 and 6.1 percent in 2019 on the back of policy tightening measures designed to cool the property market, reign in leverage in the shadow banking sector, and cutting excess capacity in old...

  17 May 2018 - 0:00 The Peninsula DOHA: QIIB has announced the launch of three attractive products - personal finance, vehicle finance, and credit cards- to the customers on the occasion of the Holy Month of Ramadan. These offers are in line with the QIIB’s policy of offering flexible products to the customers according to their expectationsto meetand meeting their expectationscustomer...

  17 May 2018 - 0:00 The Peninsula DOHA: The Qatar Financial Centre, one of the world’s leading and fastest growing business and financial centrelaunched its CSR & Social Investment strategy; “United for Good”. The strategy aims to ensure global and sustainable best CSR practices that advocate tangible and positive change in the community byfocusing on two core pillars -youth &education and community...

  17 May 2018 - 0:02 Ali Bu Sherbak Al Mansouri (second right), Assistant General-Director for government and international relations, Qatar Chamber, exchanging memento with members of visiting Pakistani trade delegation led by Muqeem Islam, Director General NAVTTC at Pakistan’s Ministry of Labour. The Peninsula DOHA: The visiting members of the leading Pakistani recruitment agencies have expressed their keenness to meet Qatar’s growing...