Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani recently met in Poland with top-level officials from the Israeli spy agency Mossad and the US Central Intelligence Agency to secure the release of Israeli hostages whom Hamas currently holds in Gaza, reported...
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The World Cup was supposed to be Qatar’s crowning achievement, its entry into the club of the world’s most advanced and exclusive destinations for world-class sports events and entertainment. Now the event might go down in history as the only soccer – that is, football...
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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi arrived in Qatar this week, a sign of rapprochement following the severing of relations in the wake of a diplomatic crisis in the Gulf in 2017, Al Jazeera reported. El-Sissi met with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in...
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Qatar arrested more than 60 foreign workers protesting over late wages and deported some of them, a move that comes as the Gulf nation faces ongoing scrutiny over its labor practices just months ahead of an international soccer tournament, the Associated Press reported Monday. On Aug....
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Qatar World Cup organizers admitted this week that migrant employees were exploited while working for FIFA’s preparation tournaments in the Gulf State, following a scathing report by Amnesty International, the Associated Press reported. The organizers' admission followed a 73-page report by the human rights organization detailing...
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