Qatar’s Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamed al-Thani meets with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Doha, Qatar August 24, 2022. Qatar’s Emiri Diwan Wednesday confirmed that the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) aims to invest $3 billion in Pakistan. Qatar is lending support to the South Asian nation’s insolvent economy. “The Qatar Investment Authority announced its […]
Sydney: Kaoru Mitoma scored twice in the dying minutes as Japan beat Australia 2-0 on Thursday to book their place at a seventh straight World Cup and in doing so also helped Saudi Arabia qualify. It was a crushing blow for an understrength Socceroos who now face a perilous play-off to keep alive their […]
Qatar issued an emergency use authorization for the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine; the second coronavirus jab approved in the country after the one developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. The Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) said the move on Wednesday came after an extensive review of the vaccine. “The comprehensive clinical trial process on Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine […]
The Qatari 2022 World Cup organizers have insisted that matches will be staged in stadiums operating at 100 percent of capacity even as the global fight against coronavirus drags on. In Tokyo; organizers of this year’s rescheduled Olympics have insisted their tournament will go ahead, but infectious diseases experts question the safety of hosting it […]
Bayern Munich made it to the Club World Cup Final after beating Al Ahly 2-0 in the semi-finals. The Bavarians hammered the African champions with a whopping total of 24 shots and controlled 68.5 percent of possession. Al Ahly only managed five shots, two of which were on target. Bayern opened the scoring after 17 […]
Cairo: Egyptian authorities on Saturday released a journalist working for Qatar’s Al Jazeera television network who was held in pre-trial detention for more than four years, his brother and a lawyer told a local news channel. Mahmoud Hussein, an Egyptian detained in December 2016 after arriving in Cairo from Doha on vacation, was held on […]
Dozens of journalists at Al Jazeera Media Network were targeted this year by advanced spyware sold by an Israeli firm in an attack likely linked to the governments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, a cybersecurity watchdog said. Citizen Lab’s researchers at the University of Toronto published a report on Sunday detailing how […]