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Travel
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Saudi Arabia and Bahrain join Qatar in UK visa waiver eligibility

Travellers from Saudi Arabia and Bahrain can now enter the UK without providing biometric information, visiting an application centre, or hand in their passport before the trip. From June 1st…

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Lebanon’s Berri meets GCC envoys signalling end of rift

Unlike the rest of the region, Qatar did not recall its ambassador to Lebanon. Lebanon’s Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri has met with Qatar’s ambassador to Beirut along with other…

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How a Saudi-Emirati plot tried to falsely link Qatar Airways with ‘terrorism’

Since the 2017 illegal blockade, thousands of fake online accounts have attempted to spread misinformation on Qatar’s flagship national carrier, writes Marc Owen Jones. A new Al Jazeera documentary revealed…

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News

Qatar urges end to ‘global inaction’ towards Palestinian cause

Doha has in recent weeks pumped up its support of Palestinians and condemnation of violations committed by Israel, amid a wave of Arab normalisation pacts with the Jewish state. Qatar…

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Qatar reportedly arrests Bahraini fishermen in territorial waters breach

Several moves that analysts had described as “provocative” were carried out by Bahrain. Qatar has reportedly arrested and seized two ships coming from Bahrain. It’s after six fishermen breached Qatar’s…

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Qatar airspace redrawn for the first time in history

The approved dimensions of Qatar’s new airspace allows the country to take control of an area of the skies for the first time in history. In a historic verdict for…

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The GCC and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: who stands where?

Ukraine’s health ministry said on Sunday that at least 198 Ukrainians have been killed. Early on Thursday, people in Ukraine woke to sounds of airstrikes hitting their country, indicating the…

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Memory and the bitter-sweetness of revolution still lives within Bahrainis

A call for a national unity turned into sectarian clashes and backed by regional players has left Bahraini nationals feeling discredited, and stripped from their agency. On 14 February 2011,…

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Sports
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Qatar wins Asian Men’s Handball Championship for the fifth time

Qatar wins their fifth Asian championship handball tournament at the Ministry of Sports hall in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The Qatari team won their fifth Asian Men’s Handball Championship trophy for…

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