Hamas-appointed civil servants in the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip began receiving their July salaries on Wednesday through a grant from Qatar, said an official, Anadolu Agency reported. Youssef al-Kayali, undersecretary of the strip’s Hamas-run Finance Ministry, [ More … ]
– Qatari Ambassador to Ankara says bi-lateral trade could double through commitment to undertaking further investments in Turkey – Qatar does not see any economic or political risks against investing in Turkey, despite the July [ More … ]
The Qatari government will pay the July salaries of civil servants in the blockaded Gaza Strip, a Qatari diplomat said “The Qatari grant for the [Gaza civil servants’] salaries, valued at $31 million, will be [ More … ]
Ambassador Mohamed al-Emadi, head of Qatar’s national committee for the reconstruction of Gaza, arrived in the Gaza Strip on Thursday night through the Beit Hanoun (Erez) border crossing, According to Palestinian local media. An official [ More … ]
Ismail Haneyya, Deputy head of Hamas’s Political Bureau, expressed his gratitude to the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani for paying the wages of July to civil workers in Gaza Strip with [ More … ]
Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani has directed that the salaries for Gaza Strip employees for the current month of July be paid, a total of QR 113 million. Qatar said on Thursday it [ More … ]
Egypt has paid $1 billion to Qatar, marking the last tranche of debts to the Gulf nation, an Egyptian official said on Saturday amid tensions between the two Arab countries. Governor of Egypt’s Central Bank [ More … ]
Middle East Observer – There were wide Arabic and Islamic for Istanbul terror attack after at least 41 people were killed and more than 230 others injured in a terror attack on the Ataturk International [ More … ]
The world’s leading professional organization for journalists- the National Press Club (NPC)- has expressed its deep concern over the Egyptian court verdict to uphold death penalties for three journalists. Egypt’s court had confirmed Egypt’s Grand [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in Istanbul on Monday to discuss the bilateral relations. This visit comes after the former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was sentenced for life [ More … ]
Qatar’s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned mention of Qatar’s name in the verdict issued yesterday by Cairo Criminal Court in the case known as ‘Qatar espionage’ and the unjust sentences against President Mohamed Morsi and [ More … ]
Cairo Criminal Court has sentenced the first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi to life in prison and an additional 15-year prison sentence in what is known as the Qatar espionage case. Life sentences in Egypt are [ More … ]
The meeting is the latest in a series of attempts to reconcile the two movements since they came into violent conflict in 2007. Member of Hamas’s political bureau Dr. Mousa Abu Marzouk revealed that a [ More … ]
Qatar’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday summoned U.S. ambassador in Doha, Dana Shell Smith, over a video that emerged of U.S. troops who appear to be making disparaging comments about Qatar. In a statement, the ministry [ More … ]
Five years ago, the Gulf states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates shared a fiscal surplus of some $600 billion; by 2020, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts that [ More … ]
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