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Six Canadian teens suspected of joining ISIS ISIS militants have seized swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq since last summer. Canadian authorities believe four young men and two women who disappeared from Quebec in January have traveled to the Middle East to fight with Islamic State, media reported on Thursday. The Globe and Mail newspaper said at least four of...

FIFA bullish over winter World Cup Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy secretary general and Local Organising Committee CEO Hassan al-Thawadi, centre, FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke and Local Organising Committee deputy CEO Nasser al-Khater, who is also the executive director, communications and marketing at the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, at yesterday’s press conference in Doha. FIFA secretary general...

HH the Emir Meets US Secretary of Defence Washington, February 25 (QNA) - HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al -Thani met here today, at his residence with US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter. At the beginning of the meeting, HH the Emir congratulated Carter on the occasion of assuming his new job, and wished him success in the...

Madonna falls at Brit Awards; Twitter's got jokes Madonna says she's fine after she took a tumble while performing during Wednesday night's Brit Awards. Madonna was sent tumbling Wednesday night when the show didn't go as planned and she was yanked down a small flight of stairs. The 56-year-old singer says she's fine. The darn cape was just tied too tight. Here's what...

Death toll from Afghan avalanches tops 200 Afghan men carry the body of a victim of avalanches after funeral prayers in Khench district of Panjshir province, north of Kabul, on Thursday. AFP/Kabul - More than 200 people have been killed in a series of avalanches triggered by heavy snowfall around Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday, warning the death toll...

Report: ISIS militant 'Jihadi John' identified The BBC and Washington Post reported on Thursday that the man who appeared wearing a ski mask in the execution videos had been identified as Mohammed Emwazi. In his mid-20s, Emwazi is said to be from a well-to-do family and to have a degree in computer programming. He is said to have grown up in...

HH the Emir Meets US House of Representatives Speaker Washington, February 25 (QNA) - HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al -Thani met here today with the Speaker of the US House of Representatives John Boehner, at the Congress premises. Discussions during the meeting dealt with a number of regional and international issues of common interest, especially the latest...

HH Deputy Emir Launches Hamad Port Doha, February 26 (QNA) - HH Deputy Emir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Thani on Thursday launched the name of the new port and immersed its basin in water at the project's site in Umm Al Houl area in Mesaieed. HE Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al-Thani and a...

Unexploded WWII bomb found near Dortmund's Signal Iduna Park An unexploded Second World War bomb was found near the Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund on Thursday morning. The city has said a team will work to defuse it as soon as the area has been evacuated. Just hours before Dortmund trainer Jürgen Klopp was due to give his press conference ahead...

Russia and Cyprus sign military deal for Mediterranean ports Cyprus has agreed to a deal allowing Russian ships to use its ports. Cyprus is the next in a line of individual EU nations with which Russia has sought to forge stronger ties. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Cypriot counterpart Nicos Anastasiades signed an agreement on Wednesday that will allow Russian...

One killed after multiple blasts hit Cairo A reconnaissance military helicopter flies over Cairo. One person was killed in a bombing outside a pizzeria in the Egyptian capital Thursday as other blasts hit a police station and offices of cell phone companies, a health official said. The bomb tore off the legs of the victim who was pronounced dead in hospital,...

Taliban blast strikes convoy of NATO official in Kabul Two people have been killed in a Taliban suicide bombing in the Afghan capital. The blast, which took place near a number of foreign embassies, comes as Afghanistan prepares for peace talks with the Taliban. A vehicle belonging to the Turkish embassy was attacked by a suicide bomber in Kabul on Thursday....

Court gives life sentence to German nurse guilty of killing patients A German nurse has been given a life sentence after being found guilty of killing several patients. He was on trial for several hospital killings, but later admitted to responsibility for dozens of deaths. On Thursday, a court in the northwestern German city of Oldenburg handed down a life sentence...

“Love is like five Elements” Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Spirit Love is so connected to Nature. We all Love or loved someone at one time or another I like to think Love has all the elements of Nature. Interesting how there’s five elements as in our five fingers. We touch our Love’s with caresses of our finger tips. We hold...