The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has underlined its full support for Qatar’s hosting of the 2022 World Cup and has encouraged media in the region to counter those questioning its right to stage the event. The GCC information ministers, meeting in Doha on Wednesday, agreed on a strategic campaign to[…]
Football’s governing body Fifa is due to open its annual congress despite warnings from sponsors that they may review ties over the arrest of senior officials on corruption charges. Coca-Cola, Adidas and Visa were among the companies to voice their concern. The European football body Uefa will decide whether to boycott Friday’s[…]
Qatar has done little to improve conditions for migrant workers despite promising reform last year, rights body Amnesty International has said in a new report. Amnesty said in a briefing that little had changed for the 1.5 million migrant workers and that soccer’s governing body FIFA had a “clear responsibility”[…]
Qatar has recalled its ambassador to Egypt “for consultation” after a row over Cairo’s air strikes on targets of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Libya, Qatari state media said. A foreign ministry official said Doha was recalling its envoy over a statement made by Egypt’s[…]
Saudi King Abdullah Wednesday called on Egypt to back an agreement reached at the weekend between Gulf countries to end a spat with Qatar, which Egypt accuses of harbouring hardline Islamists. “I appeal to the people and leadership of Egypt to join hands with us to ensure the success of[…]
Qatar’s emir said in Germany on Wednesday that his wealthy Gulf state does not back Islamic “terrorist organisations”, and Chancellor Angela Merkel said she had no reason to doubt him. The leaders spoke in Berlin where the emir was visiting, some three weeks after a German minister angered Doha by[…]
Deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi is to be tried on accusations that he handed documents relating to national security to Qatar, the state prosecutor has announced. Morsi is already facing the death penalty in several trials, and his supporters, including top ranking members of the Muslim Brotherhood, have been the[…]
The organisation of exiled Muslim Brotherhood spiritual guide Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi said Wednesday that the actions of “deviant groups” like the Islamic State (IS) were in violation of Islamic law. Qaradawi’s International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) described as “criminal and unlawful” an offensive led by the group’s fighters against[…]
Egypt has opened an investigation into deposed president Mohamed Morsi for allegedly handing over to Qatar “documents relevant to national security,” state news agency MENA reported on Wednesday. Morsi is already facing the death penalty in several trials and his supporters have been the target of a bloody crackdown by[…]
The Gulf nation of Qatar is hitting back at suggestions that it supports the Islamic State radical group, saying that “determined, collective action” is needed to end sectarian violence gripping Iraq and Syria. The energy-rich OPEC member has come under renewed scrutiny over its ties to rebels, including the Palestinian[…]
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