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  22 Feb 2018 - 21:08 Customers look over the last two AR-15 style rifles for sale inside the Bullet Hole gun shop in Sarasota, Florida (Reuters) AFP Washington:  US President Donald Trump has proposed arming "highly trained" teachers to deter school shootings but the idea has drawn little support from those most directly concerned -- teachers. "Parents and educators overwhelmingly reject the idea...

  22 Feb 2018 - 9:17 The panelists at HBKU’s ‘Conceptualizing the Middle East’ discussion. The Peninsula Doha: Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) conducted a panel discussion on ‘Conceptualizing the Middle East’, comprised of college professors and distinguished members of the diplomatic community, yesterday. Hosted by HBKU in Education City, Willy Kempel, Ambassador of Austria; Ajay Sharma, Ambassador...

  22 Feb 2018 - 9:39 The Mall of Qatar kicks off dancing and light show tonight as part of its line-up of free family entertainment. The Peninsula DOHA: Mall of Qatar (MOQ) kicks off tonight a colorful dancing and light show as part of its line-up of free family entertainment. Running until March 3 at MOQ’s Oasis stage, this amazing light show features two...

  16 Feb 2018 - 19:08 ‘Speakers’ at the event called for the imposition of a trade blockade on Qatar. The Peninsula Online Doha:  An event held in Munich, ambitiously titled “Arab Diplomatic Conference” to tarnish the image of Qatar,  rather turned an ugly fiasco which embarrassed the organizers than hitting the ‘target.’ Al Jazeera Arabic says the event became a ‘farce’ and those...

  17 Feb 2018 - 7:58 QNA Doha: Qatar Red Crescent  (QRC) announced yesterday that it will take on a project to carry out heart catheterisation operations for children in the capital of Bangladesh. The project will go on to February 25 and will cost more than QR677,000 QRC said in their statement today that it is the 12th edition of that project....

  17 Feb 2018 - 20:00 Sanaullah Ataullah | The Peninsula Doha: Now private sector employees in Qatar can get a copy of their job contract online through the ministry’s website. The Ministry of Administrative Development, Labor and Social Affairs has launched a new online service to provide a copy of the job contract for private sector employees in Qatar. These steps will make relation between...

  22 Feb 2018 - 21:28 Djibouti youths dance during the opening ceremony of Dubai-based port operator DP World's Doraleh container terminal in Djibouti port February 7, 2009. Reuters/Ahmed Jadallah Reuters DJIBOUTI/LONDON:  Djibouti has ended a contract with Dubai's DP World, one of the world's biggest port operators, to run its Doraleh Container Terminal, the president's office said on Thursday. "The Republic of Djibouti...

  20 Feb 2018 - 16:39 Syrians carry a wounded man who lost in his leg in air strikes on Saqba in Syria's rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area on February 20, 2018. AFP / Msallam ABDALBASET AFP GENEVA: The escalating battle for the besieged Syrian enclave of Eastern Ghouta could turn into a repeat of the battle for Aleppo, Syria's second city which endured...

  22 Feb 2018 - 12:15 A wounded Syrian girl receives treatment at a make-shift hospital in Kafr Batna following Syrian government bombardments on the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on February 21, 2018. AFP / Ammar SULEIMAN QNA Doha: The State of Qatar expresses its strong denouncement and condemnation of the massacres and intensive aerial bombardments...

  22 Feb 2018 - 12:16 The Peninsula Online After a long and tiring week, you would surely want to go out and enjoy and we have prepared just the perfect list of activities for you ranging from live concerts, golf tournaments to fishing and pearl diving competition. Melange Art Show at Mall of Qatar A colourful dancing and light show as part of...

  22 Feb 2018 - 0:00 Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani (centre) Chairman , QIB; Abdullatif bin Abdulla Al Mahmoud (left), Vice Chairman, QIB; and Bassel Gamal, CEO of the bank, during QIB Ordinary and Extraordinary General Assembly meeting, yesterday. Pic: Abdul Basit/The Peninsula By Satish Kanady / The Peninsula DOHA: QIB’s annual general assembly has approved the...

  22 Feb 2018 - 0:00 By Satish Kanady / The Peninsula DOHA: Driven by social needs, initiatives associated with economic transformation plans, government’s commitment towards investment in infrastructure, as well as tourism related projects, there is a robust pipeline of projects currently in the planning stages in the GCC region, including in Qatar, according to Deloitte’s just launched GCC Powers of...

  21 Feb 2018 - 20:24 FILE PHOTO The Peninsula Online Doha: The Ministry of Interior will be holding an auction of impounded vehicles of all types in the Industrial Area starting Sunday. These vehicles have completed the mandatory legal timeframe in the impounded area for whatever violation they were impounded for. The vehicles that will go under the hammer were seized for traffic violations...

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