Qatar News

May 1, 2020

Trump dig at China rattles markets as India extends lockdown

US president Donald Trump’s new threat of tariffs against China over the coronavirus sent a shudder through global markets on Friday, as India warned the world’s biggest lockdown would continue for two more weeks. European countries and some parts of…
May 1, 2020

23 hurt as Qatar COVID-19 tent clinics collapse in storm

Twenty-three staff at a hospital in Qatar were injured when tents being used to boost capacity in response to coronavirus collapsed in a fierce storm, local media reported Friday. Winds of up to 72 kilometres per hour (45 miles per…
April 29, 2020

Pompeo criticizes S.Africa, Qatar for taking Cuban doctors

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday criticized South Africa and Qatar for accepting doctors from Cuba to battle the coronavirus, accusing the communist island of profiting from the pandemic. Cuba’s globe-trotting doctors have long been a source of…
April 17, 2020

Qatar musicians give balcony gig to banish virus blues

Strains of Bizet’s Carmen reverberated around Doha’s man-made Pearl island as members of Qatar’s philharmonic orchestra performed from balconies to punctuate the monotony of lockdown. Bars, restaurants, cinemas and mosques are shut to contain the spread of coronavirus. But those…
April 16, 2020

Qatari charity feeds expat workers in virus limbo

Volunteers stack thousands of trays of steaming curry in a Doha kitchen, readying them to be distributed to low-income migrant workers facing food shortages while under lockdown due to COVID-19. The NGO Qatar Charity launched an initiative in recent weeks…
March 30, 2020

London’s Ritz Hotel sold to Qatari investor: law firm

Luxury London hotel The Ritz, currently shut owing to the coronavirus outbreak, has been sold to a Qatari buyer, lawyers overseeing the deal have confirmed, for reportedly just under $1.0 billion. “It is a privilege to become the owner of…
March 28, 2020

Qatar reports first virus death, GCC toll hits 11

Qatar recorded its first death from the new coronavirus on Saturday, while confirmed infections rose by 28 to 590, the health ministry said. A “57-year-old Bangladeshi national resident (in Qatar)… suffering from chronic diseases” died from the COVID-19 respiratory disease,…
March 24, 2020

Pompeo slashes aid, meets Taliban on surprise Afghan mission

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday slashed aid to Afghanistan’s government after a mission to Kabul failed to bridge a divide between feuding leaders as he moved forward with the Taliban on a deal to pull troops. Pompeo…
March 23, 2020

Pompeo in highest-level US talks with Taliban to break impasse

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo late Monday met Taliban leaders in Qatar in the highest-level talks ever between the two sides as he sought to break an impasse over Afghanistan through shuttle diplomacy. Pompeo flew to Qatar after a…

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