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  Al-Sadd sign Xavi for one more year

  Agence France-Presse . Doha | Updated at 10:39pm on July 05, 2020

  Former Barcelona star Xavi Hernandez signed on as head coach of Qatari club Al-Sadd for one more year Sunday, putting to bed rumours of an...

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  US courts Taliban with vision of Afghan prosperity

  Agence France-Presse . Doha | Updated at 11:48pm on July 04, 2020

  Washington highlighted the economic potential of a peaceful Afghanistan in talks with the Taliban on Friday as it encouraged the start of talks between warring...

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  No response to Gulf reconciliation effort: Qatar

  Agence France-Presse . Doha | Updated at 10:46pm on June 06, 2020

  Qatar accused a Saudi-led alliance enforcing an embargo on Doha of refusing to engage with efforts it said were US-backed to resolve a crisis which...

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  Qatar imposes mandatory masks on pain of prison

  Agence France-Presse . Doha | Updated at 11:38pm on May 17, 2020

  Qatar on Sunday began enforcing the world’s toughest penalties of up to three years’ imprisonment for failing to wear masks in public, as it battles...

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  23 hurt as Qatar COVID-19 tent clinics collapse in storm

  Agence France-Presse . Doha | Updated at 12:07am on May 03, 2020

  Twenty-three staff at a hospital in Qatar were injured when tents being used to boost capacity in response to coronavirus collapsed in a fierce storm,...

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  Gulf’s migrant workforce fears coronavirus

  Agence France-Presse . Doha | Updated at 12:44am on April 01, 2020

  Millions of migrant workers across the Gulf face uncertainty as host countries lock down, employers withhold wages or mull redundancies, and strict coronavirus containment measures...

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  Bangladeshi dies from coronavirus in Qatar

  Agence France-Presse . Doha | Updated at 12:06am on March 30, 2020

  A ‘57-year-old Bangladeshi national resident in Qatar suffering from chronic diseases’ died from the COVID-19 respiratory disease on Saturday, the health ministry said on Twitter....

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  Nine Qatar World Cup workers die in 2019

  Agence France-Presse . Doha | Updated at 02:00am on March 12, 2020

  Nine labourers on World Cup 2022 projects died in the past year, Qatari organisers said Wednesday, stressing that none of the deaths were a result...

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  US, Taliban sign deal to wind down Afghan war

  Agence France-Presse . Doha | Updated at 01:11am on March 01, 2020

  The United States signed a landmark deal with the Taliban on Saturday, laying out a timetable for a full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan within 14...

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  Qatar says talks stall with Saudi to defuse Gulf crisis

  Agence France-Presse . Doha | Updated at 01:21am on February 17, 2020

  Talks between Doha and Riyadh to resolve a two-year regional spat have stalled, Qatar’s foreign minister said, after a flurry of diplomacy late last year...