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  21 Apr 2018 - 9:15 Michael Trick, Dean of CMU-Q, with a student, during the ceremony to welcome new students. The Peninsula DOHA: Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) welcomed newly admitted students to the Marhaba Tartans evening, an event where the students can explore the academic programmes and student experience opportunities at CMU-Q. More than 100 admitted students and their families met...

  21 Apr 2018 - 10:08 The Peninsula DOHA: Qatar is a rising star location for planners for hosting business meetings and corporate events. A recent report published in South China Morning Post with headline “Qatar and Austria are rising star locations for business visitors from Asia” suggests that “the two long-haul destinations rank highly with planners as locations for hosting business meetings...

  21 Apr 2018 - 10:08 File image used for representaion. QNA Doha, Weather inshore until 6 p.m. on Saturday will be relatively hot daytime with slight dust and scattered clouds with weak chance of rain at places, the Department of Meteorology said in its daily weather report. Offshore, it will be slight dusty and partly cloudy to cloudy at times with chance of scattered...

  21 Apr 2018 - 9:36 File picture of Cityscape Qatar exhibition in 2017 QNA Doha: The seventh edition of Cityscape Qatar will take place tomorrow at Doha Exhibition and Convention Center (DECC) and will run until April 25. This year’s show boasts a lineup of up to 50 exhibitors across more than 9,000sqm of exhibition space, and will bring together heavyweight industry stakeholders...

  21 Apr 2018 - 9:42 Officials during a discussion organised by the Ministry of Economy and Commerce, in cooperation with US-Qatar Business Council in Raleigh, North Carolina, during the ministry’s tour in the United States. QNA Raleigh: The accompanying exhibition of the ‘Qatari Economic Tour in the US’ in Raleigh, North Carolina, began yesterday. The two-day event aims to highlight Qatar’s cultural...

  21 Apr 2018 - 10:13 File picture used for representation. By Sidi Mohamed | The Peninsula DOHA: The General Directorate of Traffic is poised to make driving training more effective by adding eight more languages to driving curriculum which is currently available in 10 languages. Captain Khalid Abdulaziz Al Ghanim from Licensing Section and General Supervisor of Driving Schools at the General Directorate of...

  18 Apr 2018 - 22:31 Tobias Adrian, Director of the International Monetary Fund's Monetary and Capital Markets Department, speaks about the Financial Stability Report during the 2018 IMF/World Bank spring meetings April 18, 2018 in Washington, DC.AFP / Brendan Smialowski AFP Washington:  The International Monetary Fund urged central banks Wednesday to take a gradual and transparent approach to tightening monetary policy, warning...

  18 Apr 2018 - 23:21 In this file photo taken on January 15, 2018, the sculpture "Inspiration 911" made by the British artist Gerry Judah, showing three Porsche 911 sportscars in front of the headquarters of German car maker Porsche in Stuttgart. AFP / Thomas Kienzle AFP Frankfurt am Main:  German police raided the offices of Porsche and Audi Wednesday as part...

  20 Apr 2018 - 17:39 Roberto Azevedo (Reuters) AFP Washington:  A major escalation in the trade dispute between the US and China could derail the global recovery and put "many jobs at risk," World Trade Organization chief Roberto Azevedo said Friday. And most of the impact of an all-out trade war would hit poor countries the hardest, he said in a statement to...

  08 Apr 2018 - 18:54 Screenshots from the viral video, which can be viewed at the end of the report. The Peninsula Online Doha: "This is from God, not from them," says a Jordanian pilgrim, who was filming his compatriots emptying several cans of Zamzam water at the Saudi Arabian border on their way back from performing Umrah. In an unprecedented move, the...

  09 Apr 2018 - 20:30 A fisherman stands on his boat on a beach near Kudankulam nuclear power project in Tamil Nadu, India, September 13, 2012. (Reuters / Adnan Abidi) The Peninsula Online Indian migrants have been advised not to take up fishing jobs on trawlers or vessels that may move towards Iran from  Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain, reports TheNewsMinute.com, citing a...

  10 Apr 2018 - 11:11 Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman during his official visit in Paris, France on April 09, 2018. Bandar Algaloud - Anadolu By Emmanuel Jarry / Reuters PARIS, A rights group filed a lawsuit against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during his visit to France on Tuesday, accusing him of complicity in torture and inhumane treatment...

  11 Apr 2018 - 17:45 Photo: Twitter Reuters RIYADH: Yemen's Houthis targeted Saudi Arabia's defence ministry in Riyadh with ballistic missiles on Wednesday, the armed group's Al Masirah TV said on Twitter. There were no immediate reports of damage. Saudi state media said air defence forces had intercepted a missile over the capital. Saudi Arabia's air defence forces intercepted another missile over the southern...

  16 Apr 2018 - 14:36 AFP Manila, Philippines: A Philippine domestic worker has been hospitalised in Saudi Arabia after her employer allegedly forced her to drink household bleach, Manila's foreign ministry said on Monday. Domestic worker Agnes Mancilla underwent emergency abdominal surgery after she was taken, unconscious, to a hospital in Saudi's southwestern Jizan city on April 2, the ministry said. "We are...