Section: United Arab Emirates
Qatar’s missions mark National Sport Day
The diplomatic, consular and representative missions of Qatar abroad organised various sporting events to mark Qatar National Sport Day, amid great participation and interest.In Kuwait, the Qatar embassy organised a special event on the occasion of Sport Day. The event was attended by Qatar’s ambassador to Kuwait Bandar bin Mohamed...
Focused Halep on course for second Qatar title
Sport is often a case of mind over matter, and perhaps there’s none better to exemplify this than Simona Halep of Romania.A few hours after Karolina Pliskova pulled out of the Qatar Total Open because of fatigue and fever she blamed on the Czech Republic’s tiring and ill-fated Fed Cup quarter-finals against Romania in Ostrava last...
EU moves ahead with Russia gas pipeline despite US opposition
The European Union pushed ahead yesterday with an agreement that will allow Russia to continue to build a new gas pipeline to Europe, despite US warnings it posed a security risk.The EU’s revised gas directive aims to establish common gas market rules for pipelines entering the bloc from a third country, with all the focus on Russia’s...
International skiers take to the slopes of Pakistan
Skiers descend in long, rhythmic swoops down pristine white slopes in northern Pakistan, braking in a spray of snow as soldiers carrying semi-automatic weapons watch impassively. Dozens of athletes took part at a rare international competition in the South Asian country, which boasts some of the world’s highest mountains but remains...
Hundreds flee US-backed Syria battle for last IS holdout
Exhausted families trudged out of the Islamic State group’s last bastion in eastern Syria yesterday, as Kurdish-led forces boxed holdout militants into an ever-shrinking pocket. Hundreds fled at night but hundreds more during the day as plumes of grey smoke billowed into the sky over Baghouz, where diehard IS fighters are making their last...
Pompeo warns allies Huawei presence complicates partnership with US
* US concerned over Russia, China engagement * Pompeo visits Hungary, Slovakia and Poland * Will attend Middle East conference in Warsaw US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cautioned allies on Monday against deploying equipment from Chinese telecoms giant Huawei on their soil, saying it would make it more difficult for Washington to “partner...
‘Fake news’ on Stalin’s famine still festers
Berlin: Polish director Agnieszka Holland premiered a film Sunday about the cover-up of Stalin’s mass famine in Ukraine with the complicity of the West, arguing this early example of “fake news” was still toxic today. Holland’s “Mr Jones”, in competition at the Berlin film festival, stars James Norton as crusading Welsh journalist...
No excuses as VAR set for Champions League debut
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has warned that there will be no more excuses as Video Assistant Referees (VAR) make their debut in the Champions League starting this week. Manchester United host Paris Saint-Germain at Old Trafford on Tuesday while Roma play Porto at the Stadio Olimpico as the last 16, first legs get under way. The system which...
Halep faces tricky path to second Qatar Total Open title
World No. 3 Simona Halep was handed a tricky draw as she chases her second title in the Qatar Total Open which gets underway at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex tomorrow. The 27-year-old Romanian is already a 12-year veteran on the highly competitive WTA circuit, boasting 18 titles and nearly 30 million dollars in prize money...
Klopp excited by title fight with City
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insists the Premier League title race is something to get excited about rather than stressed about despite seeing his side overhauled by Manchester City in the past week. City climbed to the top of the table on goal difference with victory against Everton in midweek but Liverpool’s destiny remains in their own...
