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Qatar market braces for football World Cup boom

Doha (AFP) - Boxloads of wooden camels, plates with pictures of Qatar's skyscrapers, gold necklaces, football hats and scarves arrive every day in Doha's Souq Waqif market, where traders eagerly await World Cup fans.

AFP

Europe faces long-term pain from energy crisis: Shell CEO

Doha (AFP) - Europe faces painful "industrial rationalisation" due to its energy crisis that risks political trouble, the head of Shell warned Sunday, as the oil giant joined a natural gas project in Qatar.

AFP

Qatar pressed on safety of women travelling to World Cup

Sydney (AFP) - Lawyers for a group of women subjected to intrusive searches at Doha Airport two years ago called Sunday for Qatar to guarantee female fans travelling to next month's football World Cup will be safe.

AFP

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Australian women sue Qatar Airways over forced examinations at Doha airport

Five women are seeking damages for ‘unlawful physical contact’ and mental health impacts over October 2020 incident

The Guardian - AU

Qatar World Cup supporters' guide

Doha (AFP) - The 2022 World Cup in Qatar has raised an unprecedented number of questions among fans over issues ranging from whether they will be able to drink alcohol, hold hands with a partner or even just getting into the Islamic Gulf state.

AFP

Qatar's 12-year journey as World Cup host has 1 month to go

The first World Cup in the Middle East is only one month away

The Independent UK

Key questions answered, one month before World Cup 2022

Here is what you need to know as Qatar marks one month to go before kickoff.

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Pandas Sent by China Arrive in Qatar

Qatar received on Wednesday Chinese giant pandas Suhail and Soraya ahead of next month's World Cup. Crowds of children and reporters watched as the four-year-old male and three-year-old female took their first steps in a temporary enclosure in a ceremony at the Al Khor park about 50 kilometers north of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Qatar gets the Middle East's first pandas

Doha (AFP) - Qatar became the first Middle Eastern country Wednesday to receive Chinese giant pandas -- Suhail and Soraya -- who, in true Gulf fashion, took up residence in luxury air-conditioned quarters.

AFP

England WAGs to stay on luxury cruise ship at World Cup - away from Three Lions players

The wives and girlfriends of Gareth Southgate's players will not stay in the same accommodation as their partners at this year's controversial World Cup in Qatar

Daily Mirror

Inside England's luxury World Cup hotel being transformed for Gareth Southgate's side

England are aiming to recreate the relaxed atmosphere which helped carry them to the final of the Euros at the Souq Al Wakra hotel near Doha for the Qatar World Cup

Daily Mirror

Five things to know about World Cup host Qatar

Paris (AFP) - Qatar, the controversial host of the football World Cup, is a key US ally in the Middle East that is rich in gas and oil.

AFP

Qatar's glitzy World Cup is ready and expensive

Doha (AFP) - The bill being paid by Qatar for the most expensive World Cup ever held is set to rise to fantasy levels in the one month left to the November 20 kickoff.

AFP

Qatar Inaugurates Solar Plant as World Cup Approaches

Qatar inaugurated Tuesday its first solar power plant stretching across the desert, a vast site planned to provide up to 10 percent of the Gulf nation's energy supply. The solar farm in al-Kharsaah, west of the capital Doha, is "one of the biggest" in the Middle East, said Saad Sherida…

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Qatar inaugurates solar plant as World Cup approaches

Doha (AFP) - Gas-rich Qatar inaugurated Tuesday its first solar power plant stretching across the desert, a vast site planned to provide up to 10 percent of the tiny Gulf nation's energy supply.

AFP

Qatar inaugurates solar plant to help power World Cup

Doha (AFP) - Gas-rich Qatar inaugurated Tuesday its first solar power plant stretching across the desert, which organisers of the football World Cup have said will provide clean energy for its stadiums.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Sultan of Oman, President of Iran Hold Telephone Talks

Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tariq received on Monday a telephone call from Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, reported the sultanate’s state news agency (ONA). Their talks focused on aspects of bilateral cooperation between their countries. They exchanged views on regional and international developments, added ONA. In Doha, meanwhile, Emir of…

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Qatar World Cup Ticket Sales Near 3 Million, Says Infantino

Ticket sales for the football World Cup are approaching the three-million mark ahead of the tournament kicking off in Qatar on Nov. 20, FIFA's president Gianni Infantino and event organizers said on Monday. The top three purchasing countries of the 2.89 million tickets sold are Qatar, the United States and…

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Al Jazeera

US will not fund non-state actors in Afghanistan: Taliban sources

Taliban sources tell Al Jazeera that US officials assured them during a meeting in Doha.

AFP

World Cup boom pushes some Qatar residents out of homes

Doha (Qatar) (AFP) - Qatari landlords eyeing profit from the looming World Cup have been kicking out a growing number of mostly foreign tenants, sometimes with just a few days' notice.

Reuters

Soccer-French soccer chiefs to check migrant workers' conditions in Qatar

The French Football Federation (FFF) said on Friday it will send a delegation to Qatar to carry out checks on the working conditions of migrant workers after a documentary revealed poor living conditions at the team's World Cup base in Doha.

AFP

Long, bumpy 4WD ride to Qatar's acclaimed desert art

Zekreet (Qatar) (AFP) - Deep in the Qatari desert, security guards have a lonely time keeping 24-hour watch over one of the world's most isolated artworks, created by renowned US sculptor Richard Serra.

Financial Times

Qatar counts down to World Cup kick-off after $200bn soft power bet

Doubts over whether the wealthy gas nation can deliver have persisted ever since it won the host rights in 2010

AFP

Teens journey from bombs and bullets to the glare of a World Cup

Doha (AFP) - When Hazem Attar fled the stricken Syrian city of Aleppo seven years ago, he could not have imagined his brutal journey would lead him to a World Cup football match.

AFP

Fans warned to be ready for World Cup queues

Doha (AFP) - Qatar World Cup organisers on Wednesday warned fans to brace for "congestion" in the first two weeks of the tournament when the peak number of supporters will be packing the Gulf state's capital.

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