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Qatar plans to invest at least $10 billion in U.S. ports and has approached international banks for financing help, three finance sources say, in an infrastructure spree that reflects the Gulf country's deepening ties with Washington. The Midd..
Rolls-Royce (RR.L) said on Monday Qatar's sovereign wealth fund would invest 85 million pounds ($112.12 million) in the British company's new low-carbon nuclear power business in exchange for a 10% equity stake. The London-listed firm has ..
Dubai has become the world's first government to turn 100% paperless, the Emirate's Crown Prince, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has announced, pointing at savings of 1.3 billion Dirham ($350 million) and 14-million-man hou..
The death toll from powerful tornadoes that devastated towns in Kentucky is likely to pass 100, the governor says, as hope of finding survivors wanes. Andy Beshear said this was the most devastating tornado event in the state's history, with a..
Coffee prices rose to a decade high on Wednesday, fueled by a shipping crunch, a spike in demand, and dry weather. The ICE Arabica coffee futures contract, which tracks the higher-quality bean, was sitting above $2.40 per pound midmorning in Europ..
Research undertaken by the Hamad Trauma Center (HTC) shows that the road death rate in Qatar fell by 61 percent per 100,000 population from 2011 to 2020, the period of the first Decade of Action for Road Safety (DoARS) organised by the United Nations..
Indian-origin physician Anil Menon, a lieutenant colonel at the US Air Force, has been selected by NASA along with nine others to be astronauts for future missions, the American space agency has announced. Menon, 45, was born and raised in Minneap..
Kuttiyamma, a 104-year-old woman in the southern Indian state of Kerala, had always wanted to go to school. But an early marriage and a life centred on household chores put an end to that dream. But her dream became realistic when she finally g..
As many as 100 people have been arrested in Sialkot after a mob of factory workers and others killed a Sri Lankan export manager of a factory and burnt his body. The police formed 10 teams to identify and arrest the people involved in the lynching..
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