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Nation proud to celebrate Sport Day: Sheikh Saoud Doha - The whole nation stands united to celebrate Qatar's fourth National Sport Day (NSD) on Tuesday. A host of physical activities have been planned all over the country on the occasion. "It clearly demonstrates Qatar's strong commitment to sports for a healthy life, not for just a day but for the whole...

Qatar Marks National Sports Day Doha, February 10 (QNA) - Activities to mark Qatar's National Sports Day in its fourth edition kicked off on Tuesday morning at a grand scale, in response to the Emiri decree which stated that Tuesday in the second week of February each year will be the State's National Sports Day, in an unprecedented and unique...

Kurds target new town after Kobane victory The Sunni extremist ISIS seized Tal Abyad from Kurdish and rebel combatants who have been fighting to oust the regime of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad since 2011. Syrian Kurdish forces have set their sights on taking back Tal Abyad, another strategic town on the border with Turkey, from ISIS militants, a monitor told...

Cairo, Moscow to build 1st nuclear plant in Egypt Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi (R) shakes hands with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Cairo on February 10, 2015. (AFP) Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al Sisi said Tuesday that Cairo would cooperate with Moscow to see the construction of the first nuclear power plant in Egypt, on the second...

Parents of US hostage Kayla Jean Mueller issue appeal to 'IS' captors The parents of a US humanitarian aid worker who her captors claim was killed in a Jordanian airstrike have said they are hopeful that she is still alive. They have also asked their daughter's captors to contact them. Carl and Marsha Mueller, the parents of 26-year-old Kayla Jean Mueller,...

German rapper Cuspert, or 'Deso Dogg,' on US terror blacklist The US has designated German citizen Denis Cuspert, who rapped under the alias Deso Dogg, as a global terrorist helping the self-styled "Islamic State." Cuspert went to Syria last year and has appeared in IS videos. The US State Department on Monday declared Denis Cuspert to be a foreign fighter and...

ADCO achieves top ACCA honour The certificate is awarded to leading organisations that offer outstanding continuing professional development opportunities to their finance professionals. The ACCA Approved Employer certificate was presented to ADCO’s CFO, Ghannam Almazrouei this week by The Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO) has been globally recognised by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) as providing...

£200m Gauguin becomes most expensive work of art of all time Paul Gauguin 1892 oil painting of two Tahitian girls bought by state-financed Qatar Museums in record sale Two women look at the painting 'Nafea faa ipoipo' (When will you marry?, 1892) by French painter Paul Gauguin A Paul Gauguin painting of two Tahitian girls has smashed the record for the...

Two wounded giants of Africa to slug it out in the AFCON final Renowned for its creativity with its script, ignoring the rules of expectation and prediction, the Africa Cup of Nations has once again conspired to surprise as it reaches its crescendo. Crawling side-by-side, Ghana will play Ivory Coast to round-up Africa’s flagship tournament for another year, in a...

Nine Militants Killed in Security Operations in Afghanistan Kabul, February 09 (QNA) - At least nine Taliban militants were killed and four others were wounded following counter-terrorism operations conducted jointly by Afghan national security forces. The Afghan Ministry of Interior (MoI) following a statement said the operations were conducted in the past 24 hours in Nangarhar, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Ghazni and...

Passenger screening personnel strike closes Hamburg Airport The latest work stoppage to hit Germany's air traffic has forced Hamburg Airport to close. This came after passenger-screening workers walked off the job in a dispute over pay. The Ver.di services sector trade union took its members who screen passengers and baggage at the airports in Hamburg, Stuttgart and Hanover out on strike...

Sidra unveils cardiovascular care centre plans Prof Ziyad Hijazi: chair of the Department of Paediatrics, and acting chief medical officer of Sidra. The Sidra Medical and Research Center yesterday unveiled detailed plans for its state-of-the-art Cardiovascular Centre of Excellence. The centre will provide children, including newborn babies and adults born with congenital heart disease, with the highest standards of care. The...

HSBC 'helped clients dodge millions in tax' Banking giant HSBC faced damaging claims on Monday that its Swiss division helped wealthy customers dodge millions of dollars in taxes after a 'SwissLeaks' cache of secret files emerged online. The documents, published over the weekend, claim the bank helped clients in more than 200 countries evade taxes on accounts containing $119bn (104bn euros). The...

Ukraine crisis talks come to Brussels and Berlin European foreign ministers have begun talks in Brussels in a final diplomatic push to resolve the crisis in Ukraine. The German Foreign Minister cast doubt over prospects for Wednesday's talks in Minsk. Crisis talks to address the increasing violence in eastern Ukraine brought 19 EU foreign ministers to Brussels on Monday. At the...