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Barca members approve tie-up with Qatar Foundation

FC Barcelona members have overwhelmingly approved Barca’s sponsorship deal with Qatar Sports Investment, the club announced on its website Saturday. Some 697 voted in favor of keeping the $230 million five-year…

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Poll: Should Barca keep QF sponsorship?

Some 173,000 Football Club Barcelona members are eligible to vote today on the team’s lucrative five-year sponsorship deal with the Qatar Foundation. The $230 million five-year deal – arguably the…

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Barca president: Without QF, ‘the club would be smaller’

FC Barcelona has gotten a lot of flak for the new Qatar Foundation logos its players are sporting on their jerseys. So much, in fact, that club members will get…

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Leaving ‘Hogwarts Express’ trains behind, Qatar Foundation contracts $123m high-tech trams

Testing, testing. In preparation for the 2022 World Cup, Qatar Foundation is contracting German engineering company Siemens to install an energy-efficient tram system, the company has announced. The $123 million deal…

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Qatar Foundation ties up with Harvard’s IGLP to develop a new local law school

Qatar Foundation ties up with Harvard’s IGLP to develop a new local law school Qatar Foundation has announced a new partnership with Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP)…

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Sheikha Mozah launches new Islamic law & ethics center

Qatar has launched a new research center that will work to address the role of Islamic ethics in today’s world, especially in the realms of environment, gender, economics, education, art…

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Qatar Foundation: Yesterday’s bomb threat at Education City was a hoax

Qatar Foundation: Yesterday’s bomb threat at Education City was a hoax Following yesterday’s news that a bomb threat had been made at the Texas A&M and Carnegie Mellon campuses in…

Wikileaks: Qatar solicits $1 billion, angering oil companies

A new Wikileaks cable shows that in 2008, Qatar angered oil companies by asking for $1 billion in donations for its new Sidra Medical Center. Qatar is one of the…

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