Qatar Airways has placed a $501 million order with Boeing to buy two additional Boeing 777-200 Long Range (200-LRs) aircraft as part of its continued growth plans. The airline also revealed an advanced delivery schedule of its Boeing 787 Dreamliners, with the first to arrive from the fourth quarter of 2011 to help meet...
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Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa has made a secret visit to Ethiopia, a Qatari daily has reported. The paper attributed the information to sources it did not name, but said that the secretary general’s visit was likely linked to an international dispute over Nile water shares. The Nile, the world’s longest river, is...
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A liberal candidate in the 2010 parliamentary elections expressed confidence that she would overcome competition from an alliance of two religious societies in her constituency. “I am not concerned about the alliance between the Islamic Menbar and Al Asala since neither of them has given importance to women or has ever fielded woman candidates,”...
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Kuwait has asked 22 government ministries and establishments to work from 8.30 am until 1 pm during the month of Ramadan. The civil service bureau said that all ministries and government agencies would work five days a week, from Sunday until Thursday. However, it said that only 22 of them would open between 8.30...
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The family of a Bahraini fisherman who has been unable to leave Qatar despite a court clearance has appealed to the competent authorities in Bahrain to help repatriate him. “We have been suffering as a family because of his absence for more than two months,” the wife of Adel Al Taweel, said. “We are...
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A Qatari decision to end quota system that allocated would-be pilgrims to Haj operators and allowed nationals and expatriates to make their own choices has reportedly caused a stir. Until last week’s decision, the state-monitored Haj Committee assigned a certain number of would-be pilgrims to the operators under a national quota system. Although the...
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Rima Fakih, the first Arab-American to be crowned Miss USA, will make her first official visit to the Middle East at the second annual “Made in the USA – Qatar 2010” exhibition scheduled to be held in October. Miss USA 2010 will spend three days in Qatar, during which she will participate at the...
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Gulf Air, Bahrain’s national carrier on Tuesday said that it would soon launch new flights to Aden and re-launch services to Colombo. Services to Aden via Sana’a will start on September 22 with four weekly flights by an A319 aircraft while Colombo services will begin on October 5 October with five flights per week...
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The alleged Iranian cell busted by Kuwait in April will go on trial on August 3, a local daily said. “The first session of the trial of the seven ring members spying for Iran’s Revolution Guards will be on August 3 at the criminal court,” Al Qabas newspaper reported on Tuesday. According to the...
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Bahrain’s Islamic Action Society “Amal” said that it would soon announce its final position on whether it would boycott the forthcoming quadrennial parliamentary elections. All registered societies have said that they would participate in the polls, confirming a tendency launched in 2006 when the elections were held for the second time following a three-decade...
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