The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Doha - Qatar-based regional broadcast giant al-Jazeera's sport channel on Tuesday announced it had sealed a deal to purchase its Saudi-owned rival Arab Radio and Televison (ART)'s sports channel. Al-Jazeera now owns the ART sports network's brand and...
IraqPundit (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
A lot of Iraq's former Baathists now live in Syria, and another large group of former high-ranking Iraqi Baathists live in Qatar. Many think their symbolic leader is Izzat Douri, the only member of Saddam Hussein's inner circle to escape. But if I were sitting with the ex-Baathists in either Damascus or Doha, I would suggest they pick Juan Cole to head their gang instead. The professor who claims to...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
A cartoon published in a local paper in Qatar depicting a crazed maid abusing a child has raised the ire of Doha bloggers, many of whom are condemning the possible satire for being racist and in poor taste. Shabina S. Khatri has more on the debate.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Doha - Qatar, which hosts talks between the government of Sudan and rebels from its western Darfur region, has expressed hope that a peace deal can be reached soon between the warring sides, media reports said Sunday. Minister of State for Foreign Af...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Pakistani teenager Aamir Atlas Khan can help revive the country's lost glory in squash after the Peshawar-based player scalped world number one Gregory Gaultier in the ongoing Qatar Classic in Doha, experts said Sunday.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The United Nations-backed mediation talks aimed at bringing peace to the strife-torn Sudanese region of Darfur will resume on Wednesday in Doha, Qatar, a UN spokesman announced here Tuesday. This latest round of talks will include the participation of Darfurian civil society organizations, including women and youth groups, said Farhan Haq, associate spokesman for the UN secretary-general. Organized...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
United Nations-backed mediation talks aimed at bringing peace to the strife-torn Sudanese region of Darfur will resume tomorrow in Doha, Qatar, the world body announced today.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
DOHA, Qatar, November 17 /PRNewswire/ -- - Guest of Honour, Irina Bokova, Newly Elected UNESCO Director-General Addresses 1,000 Opinion Leaders From 120 Countries Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser AL-MISSNED, ...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
French construction firm Bouygues Construction said on Monday it had won a 950-million-euro (1.4 billion-dollar) contract in the Gulf state of Qatar to build an office and shopping complex. It said its subsidiary Bouygues Batiment International would build nine 18-52-storey office towers, a five-star hotel, a shopping mall, a conference center, a mosque and parking garages on the site, located in...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Doha bloggers bemused, incredulous and wistful by official remarks that no one in Qatar is above the law. A debate over the merits of that statement quickly evolves into a discussion on press freedom, as more clamor for a new law press law, free from any imprisonment penalties against journalists.
Sudan Watch (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Source: Darfur Darfur Dialogue & Consultation (DDDC) Date: 11 Nov 2009 (with thanks to ReliefWeb ) KHARTOUM, SUDAN – For a host of reasons, feeding the views of Darfur civil society into the Darfur peace process has been a challenge. A recent breakthrough in the ongoing Doha Darfur peace talks, however, has created a civil society track that has long been absent. The Technical Workshop on...
The New Nation (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Staff Reporter Bangladesh is completely respectful to the United Nations (UN) Convention Against Corruption and the government would take initiatives for full implementation of it, said Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed yesterday. "It is essential to detect and remove the limitations of the least developed countries (LDCs) capacities in the way to implement the UN Convention against corruption,"...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The fate of a key plan to improve the transparency of a worldwide anti-corruption programme is in doubt at a UN conference in Qatar, a lobby group said on Monday. Delegates from 141 countries which have signed the UN Convention against Corruption are discussing a call to establish a review mechanism for the agreement. "The global anti-corruption treaty will fail without agreement on an effective...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Qatar Airways today announced that it would increase the frequency of flights on the Amritsar-Doha route from four days a week to daily by March 2010.
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Both of Bulgaria’s top bodybuilders Hristomir Hristov and Dimitar Dimitrov won gold medals in their categories at the 63rd Men’s World Amateur Bodybuilding Championship in Doha, Qatar. Late Wednesday night, Bulgaria’s most successful bodybuilder of all time, Hristomir Hristov, won the gold medal in the 80 kg category. This is Hristov’s second world title ...
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