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Oil majors line up for new Qatari gas projects
24 Jan 2018 - 10:15
FILE PHOTO: Qatar's Minister of Energy H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada gestures as he speaks to the media in Doha, Qatar February 8, 2017. REUTERS/Naseem Zeitoon/File Photo
By Dmitry Zhdannikov | Reuters
DAVOS, Switzerland: US and European oil majors are piling in with offers to help Qatar develop new...
22 January 2018
The Indian government announced the abolition of the military deal with Tel Aviv. Reports indicate that India is afraid of Israel stealing Delhi’s military secrets.
Israeli intelligence spy controversy on Pentagon, which occurred over the past decades, faced with the American pressure resulting in the collapse of Israeli Ministry of Defence’s Scientific Information Office.
The office recently co-signed with...
22 January 2018
It seems that the United States has now started to take gradual measures against Pakistan and freezing security-related funds to Islamabad is the last step taken in this respect until now.
State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert lately announced at a press briefing that the Trump administration was suspending all security assistance to Pakistan because the country was not...
22 January 2018
Iraq has issued a death sentence to a German woman after finding her guilty of belonging to the ISIS terrorist group.
She was sentenced to death by hanging for providing “logistical support and helping the terrorist group to carry out crimes,” said court spokesman Abdel Settar Bayraqdar.
“The accused admitted during interrogations that she left Germany for Syria then...
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The French company Zapata, which first brought hydroflight to the world, has tested its new machine, named Zapata Ezfly. Sputnik has taken a look at the craziest flying vehicles that are poised to replace self-driving cars as the hottest trend.
Zapata Ezfly
Zapata tested a jet-powered aerial “Segway,” which looks like a small platform equipped...
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VIRAL
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Genie would be laughing.
Four men in India, one of them a police driver, landed behind bars Thursday after they attempted to sell a "genie in a bottle" to an unsuspecting man in West Bengal's Burdwan city.
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According to NDTV, the con began after Tapas Roy Choudhury, the victim, was informed by a friend that there was a merchant in Burdwan selling a $15,000 "ghost" that would grant...
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10:44 23.01.2018(updated 10:58 23.01.2018)Get short URL
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Pulling over to the side of the road to pray is not uncommon among bus drivers and other motorists in the United Arab Emirates. Now, however, they will most likely think twice before doing so in the nation's capital.
Abu Dhabi Police have announced that drivers who stop their vehicles in undesignated...
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BUSINESS
13:32 22.01.2018(updated 14:25 22.01.2018)Get short URL
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The Saudi government is looking for support from private-sector banks in the restructuring of its international syndicated loan as the nation steps up its effort to assert itself in the global capital markets.
Kristian Rouz – Saudi government asks the nation’s banking sector for assistance in refinancing its $10-billion international loan, as well as raising...
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EUROPE
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In addition to posing financial difficulties and severe integration problems, it's been found that the migrant crisis in Sweden has a morbid underside in the form of unethical sexual relations between the newcomers and staff.
Three women employed at a refugee accommodation center...
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23 Jan 2018 - 0:40
QIB headquarters at Grand Hamad Street.
The Peninsula
Doha: Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) has been named “Best Islamic Bank in Qatar” by Islamic Finance News (IFN), the world’s leading Islamic finance publication. QIB also won two more awards “Best Deal of the Year in Qatar” and the “Structuring Deal of the Year”. The prestigious awards mark QIB’s...
By Nick Zazulia | January 22, 2018
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Single European Sky ATM Research Joint Undertaking and the Qatar Civil Aviation Authority have signed an agreement pledging increased cooperation between the two organizations beginning immediately.
The groups hope that the exchange of data and experience will “create more interoperability between” ATM systems, according to QCAA Chairman Abdulla Nasser Turki Al Subaey.
Beyond attempting to...
20 Jan 2018 - 12:59
UAE has omitted Qatar from a world map. Photo Credit: Twitter/@Dr_Ulrichsen
Anadolu / The Peninsula
DOHA, Qatar: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has omitted Qatar from a world map exhibited at a recently opened Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi, according to a veteran observer of Gulf affairs.
In an analysis piece written earlier this week entitled “The UAE/Qatar...