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The Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre (QICDRC) has issued a new Practice Direction (No. 1/2022) on Small Claims, substantially shortening the time to reach a judgment. The new Directive comes into effect on 1 March 2022. In l..
Russia has agreed a 30-year contract to supply gas to China via a new pipeline and will settle the new gas sales in euros, bolstering an energy alliance with Beijing amid Moscow's strained ties with the West over Ukraine and other issues. Gazp..
Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) reported 997 Covid-19 cases in Qatar on February 4, 2022. Cases Cases among community: 792 Cases among travelers: 205 Total number Covid-19 cases today: 997 Total number of active cases: 15,617 Total n...
A 477-mile-long megaflash crossed three US states. A 477-mile-long lightning bolt crossed three southern US states, and is now verified by the World Meteorolgical Organization to be world-record breaking. The previous record was 440.6 miles (70..
South Korea reported a record number of daily infections with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, recording 22,907 new cases during the last 24 hours, bringing the number of infections to more than 907,000 cases. South Korea Disease Control and P..
Aremote hospital in an area of Bangladesh vulnerable to rising sea levels has been named the world's best new building. The Friendship Hospital in Satkhira, a cyclone-prone district in the country's south, was announced winner of..
Microbiologists at Sidra Medicine have developed a new blood processing method to quickly identify bacteria and other microbes in blood infections such as sepsis. The method is based on matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass ..
Pope Francis said on Friday that spreading fake news and disinformation on COVID-19 and vaccines, including by Catholic media, is a violation of human rights. It was the second time in less than month that the 85-year-old pope has spoken out on th..
A pregnant New Zealand journalist says she turned to the Taliban for help and is now stranded in Afghanistan after her home country has prevented her from returning due to a bottleneck of people in its coronavirus quarantine system. In a column pu..
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