Football star Zinedine Zidane has thrown his weight behind Qatar’s ambitious bid for the 2022 World Cup, saying youth in the Middle East stood to gain immensely if FIFA’s showpiece event was awarded to the region. Zidane, who guided France to World Cup triumph in 1998, urged the football governing body to bring the...
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Bahrain’s lower chamber will have at least one woman after incumbent lawmaker Lateefa Al Gaood carried the sixth constituency in the Southern Governorate where she ran unchallenged. Al Gaood made history in 2006 when she became the first woman in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries to be elected to a parliament, even though she was...
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