CNN: Help Obeidy out of Libya
CNN: Help Obeidy out of Libya In an opinion piece for CNN, Bill Frelick, refugees director for Human Rights Watch (HRW), calls for international support to get suspected rape victim Eman al-Obeidy out of…
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Report: Afghanistan agrees to US-backed Taliban office in Qatar, on its terms
Report: Afghanistan agrees to US-backed Taliban office in Qatar, on its terms Afghanistan has accepted plans for a Taliban political office to open in Qatar for peace talk, according to…
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IMF “pressuring” Qatar to introduce taxes
IMF “pressuring” Qatar to introduce taxes Reports the Peninsula newspaper: DOHA: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is putting pressure on Qatar to impose taxes but the country has been reluctant…
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Qatar one step closer to new media law
The State Cabinet has approved a draft of the proposed new media law, which will likely be issued after it is ratified, state news agency QNA has reported. The new…
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Time names Qatar Emir one of its ‘people who mattered’ in 2011
Citing Qatar’s involvement in the Arab revolutions and its growing clout with Western power brokers, Time Magazine has named Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani one its People…
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Report: Kenyan men trafficked as sex slaves to Gulf states
Report: Kenyan men trafficked as sex slaves to Gulf states Gay and bisexual Kenyan men are being lured to Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia with promises of jobs only…
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Peninsula: Qatar opens camp in Tunisia for Libyans
Peninsula: Qatar opens camp in Tunisia for Libyans Reports the Peninsula newspaper: Qatar has opened a government-financed refugee camp in southern Tunisia to host Libyans fleeing violence in their country,…
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FIFA suspends Qatar’s Bin Hammam, clears Sepp Blatter of charges
The world soccer agency FIFA has temporarily banned Mohamed bin Hammam, the president of the Asian Football Confederation, from participating in soccer activity while it broadens its investigation into possible corruption…
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The ‘why’ behind Friday’s fake protests in Qatar (it involves Syria)
It must not be easy to orchestrate a fake protest. It must, in fact, have taken enormous amounts of forethought, motivation and resources to do what the Qatar Revolution Facebook…
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