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No Qatar dialogue unless conditions met- Four Arab countries

July 30, 2017

Manama (MDW Live) – Four Arab countries boycotting Qatar are ready for dialogue to ease the dispute if Doha agrees to certain demands, Bahrain’s foreign minister said on Sunday after a meeting with his counterparts. Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa [...]

Look ‘beyond crisis’ and look to establish new relations to replace old- UAE FM Anver Gargash

July 26, 2017

(MDW Live) Dubai – Anver Ghargash UAE State minister for Foreign Affair today said that it was important to look ‘beyond crisis’ and look to establish new relations and in the process replace old ones. In a series of tweets he said today that, “now that Qatar crisis has [...]

Gulf Countries Indicate Some Flexibility on Demands on Qatar

July 19, 2017

Senior diplomats from the four Arab countries that have broken ties with Qatar indicated Tuesday that they were no longer insisting on 13 precise demands that the Qataris must satisfy, or on a specific deadline for them to comply. The remarks by the diplomats from Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi [...]

Qatar Plans Food Cluster to Boost Supplies at Home

July 17, 2017

Domestic Al Jaber Engineering awarded $431 million contract Project was started last year, before Saudi-led boycott Qatar will spend 1.6 billion riyals ($431 million) to build a food-processing and storage facility near Hamad Port in about two years that will more than meet local demand for sugar, [...]

UAE wants international monitoring of Qatar

July 17, 2017

LONDON (Reuters) – A senior United Arab Emirates (UAE) official said international monitoring was needed in the standoff between Qatar and its Arab neighbors, adding he saw signs that the pressure exerted on Doha “was working”. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and [...]

Doha Festival City’s $1 billion-plus loan refinancing frozen amid Qatar boycott: Sources

July 16, 2017

DUBAI/DOHA (Reuters) – The refinancing of a $1 billion loan by Doha Festival City, a retail and hospitality complex in Qatar, has been indefinitely postponed as a diplomatic crisis deters regional banks from doing new Qatari business, bankers said. The refinancing, coordinated by Doha-based [...]

France wades into Qatar spat

July 16, 2017

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — France’s foreign minister on Saturday called on Qatar’s neighbors to immediately lift measures impacting thousands of people in the Gulf, becoming the latest foreign diplomat to visit the region and attempt to help find a resolution to a crisis that has dragged on for more [...]

Gulf crisis threatens Qatar Airways transit business: experts

June 12, 2017

Dubai (AFP) – Qatar Airways has made Doha a global hub in just a few years, but barring it from Gulf states’ airspace threatens its position as a major transcontinental carrier, experts say.Along with its Gulf peers — Dubai’s Emirates Airlines and Abu Dhabi’s Etihad [...]

Qatar Airways adds flights to Colombo and Dhaka

August 22, 2017

DOHA, Qatar, 21 August 2017: Qatar Airways continues to expand with new flights to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Saying it is responding to robust demand from passengers it is increasing its Colombo service from four to five flights weekly effective 11 September. The airline’s Dhaka service will also [...]

Qatar to issue Permanent Residency to certain categories of expats

August 2, 2017

Qatar’s Cabinet today approved legislation where certain categories of foriegners could be issued with permanent residency which could affect tens of thousands of foreigners living in the tiny gulf state. Those who are granted the new status would be afforded the same education and [...]

Difference of Visions the reason for Gulf Crisis-Qatar Ambassador to Russia

July 29, 2017

The Ambassador of the Qatar to Russia Fahad bin Mohammed Al Attiyah said that the cause of the current Gulf crisis lies in the different visions between the State of Qatar and the siege countries with regard to the present and the future. During an interview with the Russian radio station Echo [...]

Kuwait reduces diplomatic ties with Iran

July 20, 2017

Kuwait has decided to shut down Iran’s cultural attaché office in the country and reduce the number of Iranian diplomats. The reason – Tehran’s alleged ties with a “terrorist group” plotting attacks against the Persian Gulf state, Arab media outlets reported.The Arab media suggested [...]

EXLUSIVE INSIDER: Reliving The Saudi Palace Coup

July 19, 2017

(Reuters) – On Tuesday June 20 Mohammed bin Nayef, a powerful figure in Saudi Arabia’s security apparatus for the past two decades and the next in line to the throne, was summoned to meet King Salman bin Abdulaziz on the fourth floor of the royal palace in Mecca. There, according to a [...]

Australia helps Sri Lanka as dengue toll hits 250

July 19, 2017

COLOMBO (AFP) – Australia will join Sri Lanka in its war on dengue fever, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said Wednesday, as the virus has claimed a record 250 lives and infected nearly 100,000 people in the South Asian country this year. Sri Lanka has deployed hundreds of troops to [...]