Hazar Kilani

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‘New era for cancer detection’: Blood test spots multiple cancers without clear symptoms

The Galleri test also forecasts the location of the cancer, enabling medical professionals to expedite the subsequent investigation required to find and confirm a cancer. Doctors are telling health providers…

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Ooredoo mulls sale of telecom tower network: Reuters

Last Thursday, Qatar’s Ooredoo revealed that it has agreed to sell Nine Communications Pte. Ltd, a Singapore-based business, its Myanmar operation. Qatari telecommunications giant Ooredoo is contemplating the sale of…

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Three DFI-funded films win at Venice International Film Festival

This comes as Arab cinema representation in international film festivals is on the rise. Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani took to Instagram on Monday to congratulate the…

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Doha Renews: your inbox is affecting the environment, here’s how

A single email can be anywhere between 0.03g CO2e to 26g CO2e. The urgency given to how human activity affects the environment is growing with each passing year, and the…

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Doha Renews: Zakey, the Qatar-based startup tackling food waste

Zakey is an application dedicated to selling overstocked and near-expiry foods at a fraction of the original price in Qatar. Every year, roughly one-third of the food produced for human…

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Blue Salon thanks supporters after ‘malicious’ false accusations

The allegations against Blue Salon first appeared when word spread that the Ministry of Commerce and Industry had taken legal action against a store in Al-Sadd for selling counterfeit products.…

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Qatar connects with Meta to launch ‘missing children alerts’ on Facebook, Instagram

The method for alerting authorities to kidnappings called AMBER alert was invented in Dallas, Texas, in 1996. The Ministry of Interior (MoI) and Meta inaugurated a AMBER alert system to assist…

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Is it raining diamonds across the universe?

Little is known about ice giants Uranus and Neptune, the two most distant planets in our Solar System. Scientists speculate that diamond rain may be falling on planets throughout the universe…

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Italy to assist with global efforts to secure Qatar World Cup 2022

South Korea’s army announced last month that it will dispatch five police officers specialising in counter-terrorism to Qatar to exchange security expertise. The defence ministries of Italy and Qatar inked…