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LTO to release drivers’ license cards of OFWs in Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia

QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Land Transportation Office (LTO) announced on Monday (April 03), that Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) from Bahrain, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia can now apply for a driver’s license card via the Internet. Applicants must fill out a form that can be downloaded from the website www.lto.gov.ph. They should then scan their application form and the following requirements: Passport showing identification details and photo, and the passport page showing the arrival stamp at current country; LTO Driver’s […]

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A peek inside Qatar’s ‘gas capital of the world’

by David Harding Agence France-Presse RAS LAFFAN, QATAR (AFP) — Perched on a northern tip of Qatar, about an hour’s drive from the gleaming capital Doha and at the end of “Route 77”, stands the secretive city of Ras Laffan. Behind its closely guarded gates, Ras Laffan is home to 30,000 people, the best white truffles in Qatar, apparently, and a turtle conservation project. It is also one of the most significant industrial sites on […]

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Qatar World Cup construction workers to get ‘cooling’ hats

QATAR (Reuters) — Migrant workers building soccer stadiums in Qatar are to be given ‘cooling’ hard hats to reduce their body temperature. Scientists at Qatar University designed the solar-powered hard hats to improve conditions for 2022 World Cup labourers who rights groups say have suffered abuses. Mechanical Engineering student Abdullah Ibrahim Al-Ibrahimi was among the team which developed the helmet. “The head is an important body organ. Any increase in its temperature might cause harm […]

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Body of new-born baby found on plane in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — The body of a new-born baby has been found in the toilet of a plane after it arrived in Indonesia from Doha, with police waiting to question a female passenger, an official said Tuesday. The grim discovery was made late Sunday by cleaners as they moved through the Qatar Airways flight after its arrival at the main international airport serving Jakarta. The foetus was estimated to be between five and seven […]

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Massive sandstorm engulfs parts of Qatar

By Duane Dizon and Abigail Basa Eagle News Service Qatar DOHA, Qatar (Eagle News) — Parts of Qatar have been swept by a sudden dust storm on Wednesday afternoon (August 24) causing reduced visibility and astonishment among residents. Strong winds and light rains followed the dusty conditions across the country. The Qatar Meteorology Department (MET) explained that the sudden weather disruption was caused by temporary, strong downdraft winds resulting from thunder cells in the north. […]

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Syrian and Russian aircraft step up bombing of Aleppo city – monitor

  (Reuters)    Nearly 50 air strikes hit rebel-held areas in and around the Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday in some of the heaviest recent raids by Russian and Syrian government aircraft, residents and a monitoring group said. The group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, also said an unidentified war plane had crashed in countryside south of Aleppo, in an area where Islamist rebel fighters are battling the Syrian army and Iranian-backed forces. It […]

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Oil prices tumble after Saudi-Iran tensions sink output deal

(Reuters)   Oil prices tumbled on Monday after a meeting by major producers in Qatar collapsed without an agreement to freeze output, leaving the credibility of the OPEC producer cartel in tatters and the world awash with unwanted fuel. Geopolitical tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran were blamed for the failure, which revived industry fears that major government-controlled producers will increase their battle for market share by offering ever-steeper discounts. “OPEC’s credibility to coordinate output is […]

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U.S. Navy leads 30-nation maritime exercise in Middle East

Reuters – The U.S. Navy is leading a 30-nation maritime exercise across Middle Eastern waters which it says will help protect international trade routes against possible threats, including from Islamic State and al Qaeda. The exercise, which is partly being held in the Arabian Gulf, comes as tensions run high between Gulf Arab countries and Iran over its role in the region, including its support for President Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s civil war, for the […]

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Qatar is unfit to host the 2022 World Cup, says Amnesty International

DOHA, Qatar (Reuters) — Migrant workers in Qatar renovating a 2022 World Cup stadium have been subjected to human rights abuses, in some cases forced labor, two years after the tournament’s organizers introduced worker welfare standards in the wake of widespread criticism, according to a report by Amnesty International. Dozens of construction workers from Nepal and India rebuilding the Khalifa stadium, a vast sporting complex in Doha that will host a World Cup quarter-final in […]

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Rebels capture last Syrian town in Idlib province

The Syrian army has pulled back from the northwestern city of Ariha after a coalition of insurgent groups seized the last city in Idlib province in northwestern Syria near the Turkish border that was still held by the government. A coalition of rebel groups called Jaish al Fateh, or Conquest Army, said it had taken over the city. Syria’s al Qaeda offshoot Nusra Front is a major part of the coalition. The coalition said it […]

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