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QFA President : Brave Show by Qatar National Football Team QFA President Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Ahmed Al -Thani Riyadh, November 26 (QNA) - Qatar Football Association (QFA) President Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Ahmed Al -Thani lauded the players’ courage after Qatar on Wednesday stunned hosts Saudi Arabia to win the Gulf Cup. Saudi Arabia took the lead through Saud...

Attorney General Meets US Congressional Delegation Doha, November 27 (QNA) - The Attorney General HE Dr. Ali bin Fetais Al-Marri met in Office on Thursday with a visiting US Congressional delegation. During the meeting, Dr. Al -Marri briefed the delegation on Qatar judicial system, and the achievements made by Qatar in the fight against corruption. (QNA)     Read the full text news...

Oil prices plunge after OPEC leaves output stable The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has decided not to reduce oil production, despite a huge oversupply in world markets. The decision caused global oil prices to drop further. Following a meeting in Vienna on Thursday, OPEC announced it would leave its combined oil production unchanged at 30 million barrels per day. The...

Indian hanged girls "committed suicide," not gang-raped or murdered, say investigators Two Indian girls found hung from a tree in May "committed suicide" and were not gang-raped and murdered, federal investigators have concluded. Authorities said their motive was "shame over a relationship with a boy." India's federal investigators said on Thursday that two girls who were found hanging from a tree...

Large blast, gunfire heard in central Kabul Afghan intelligence personnel inspect the site of a suicide attack on a British embassy vehicle along the Kabul-Jalalabad road in Kabul on Nov. 27, 2014. (AFP) A large blast rocked Kabul on Thursday evening, followed by gunfire in the Afghan capital's central district of Wazir Akbar Khan that houses many embassies and foreign compounds,...

17th Edition of 'A Flower Each Spring' Program Kicks Off Tomorrow Doha, November 14 (QNA) - The 17th edition of 'A Flower Each Spring' program will kick off tomorrow (Saturday) in Al Khor and will introduce another Qatari natural plant under the name: Thanoun 'the Cistanche phelypaea'.     Read the full text news resource site… Source News: qna.org.qa

GCC Secretary General Welcomes FIFA Report on Qatar World Cup Bid Riyadh, November 14 (QNA) - GCC Secretary General Dr. Abdullatif Al Zayani has welcomed the report of the FIFA Ethics Committee's Adjudicatory Chamber, which affirmed the integrity of Qatar's 2022 World Cup bid.     Read the full text news resource site… Source News: qna.org.qa

Documents reveal extensive bureaucratic structures in Islamic State IS has set up a complex bureaucratic infrastructure that includes health care and social benefits in territories it has seized. Secret documents obtained by German media outlets shed light on the group's inner workings. Documents obtained by German public radio and television broadcasters NDR and WDR along with German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung detail...

Qatar Submits Draft Resolution to UN General Assembly on Human Rights Situation in Syria New York, November 14 (QNA) -The State of Qatar, on behalf of nearly 60 UN member countries has submitted a draft resolution to the UN General Assembly on the situation of human rights in Syria. HE Ambassador Alia Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani, the Permanent Representative of...

Gulf Cooperation Council Condemns Explosion Outside UAE Embassy in Libya Riyadh, November 14 (QNA) - GCC Secretary General Dr Abdullatif Al Zayani on Friday condemned Thursday's blast that took place outside the UAE embassy in Tripoli, Libya. In a statement released on Friday, Al Zayani said that 'such a cowardly act of terrorism' was a blatant breach of international laws...

Lebanese Army Finds 2 Bombs in Arsal Beirut, November 14 (QNA) - Lebanese army announced on Friday the seizure of two bombs in the region of Arsal, reported Lebanon's new agency NNA today. Each of the bombs were made up of 15 kg of explosives, the Lebanese military said in a statement.     Read the full text news resource site… Source News:...

Jordanian King Meets Kerry and Netanyahu Amman , November 13 (QNA) - Jordanian King Abdullah II on THURSDAY met with US Secretary of State John Kerry and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They discussed ways to restore calm and defuse tensions in Jerusalem in addition to create conditions for reviving the peace negotiations between Palestinian and Israeli parties.(QNA)     Read the...

Seventy percent of students feel unmotivated by their teachers: report The Swedish Schools Inspectorate has leveled harsh criticism against municipalities and the people behind privately-run schools, today in a report analyzing the results of five years' worth of work to inspect almost all the schools in the country. The results did not come as a total surprise, given a series...

Report suggests Armed Forces should do more to attract teens Making military defence a subject in high school could attract more people to become soldiers in the Swedish Armed Forces, according to a government-commissioned report issued today, which suggests a number of measures aimed to alleviate a shortage of recruits and to get recruits to stay on longer. "It's the...