QATAR popularity and QATAR trends

La banque russe Sberbank est proche d'un accord avec Dexia pour lui racheter sa filiale turque Denizbank, a-t-on appris jeudi de trois sources proches du dossier. Sberbank, deuxième groupe bancaire russe par la capitalisation boursière, était en compétition avec la Banque nationale du Qatar pour...Articles en rapportGrèce: Citigroup table sur une sortie de l'euro début 2013L'audit des banques e...

INTERVIEW - À la tête du PSG depuis bientôt un an, Nasser al-Khelaïfi, le patron de Qatar Sports Investments, assure au Figaro que la deuxième place du PSG cette saison n'est pas un échec. Rencontre avec un président déterminé à réussir.

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the emir of Qatar, has spent tens of millions on Dudley House in London's Park Lane since acquiring the sprawling property for £37.4m in 2006.

Les chefs de gouvernement de Bulgarie, du Qatar et de la Turquie se sont accordés pour étudier les possibilités de développer des projets d’infrastructures communs, comme la ...lire la suitehistoires liées19:01 Rome: Maria Sharapova en demi-finales19:27 Merkel suggère un référendum sur l’euro avec les législatives en Grèce19:57 GP de France - Essais libres: Stoner comme si de rien n’était19:54 ...

IOC president faces hugely complex task in deciding whether to allow Qatar to compete for 2020 Oympics.

Middle Eastern nation has added oil giant to its portfolio and could end up with a seat on the board

Según la cuenta oficial de Twitter del club catarí, el "Ángel de Madrid" se ha convertido en el nuevo jugador del Al-Sadd

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Qatar's largest telecommunications provider said Monday its Tunisiana subsidiary has won licenses to operate fixed-line and 3G mobile services in Tunisia, boosting the Gulf state's influence in the North African nation....

Edvard Munch's iconic painting, "The Scream," hits the auction block tonight at Sotheby's at 7 p.m. Estimates vary from $80 million to $200 million -- if it approaches the latter, it could set the world record for a work of art sold at auction, surpassing Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust," which sold for $106.5 million. Cezanne's "The Card Players" has the honor of being sold for the hig...

Die Fluggesellschaft Qatar Airways schiebt die Abnahme von fünf A380-Superjumbos auf. Der Grund: Es würden weitere Einzelheiten über die an den Tragflächen der Maschinen dieses Typs entdeckten Risse benötigt.

International trade plays a key role in expanding demand and supply of environmentally friendly goods and services and helping countries shift to a greener development path, experts said during a panel debate at a United Nations trade and development conference in Doha, Qatar.

Les avoirs du fonds souverain du Qatar ont dépassé les 100 milliards de dollars, a indiqué dimanche Hussein al-Abdallah, un responsable de cet organisme, en marge de la 13e réunion de la Conférence des Nations unies pour le commerce et le développement (Cnuced) à Doha. A la question de savoir si...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Gulf Arab states will meet in Qatar on Tuesday to discuss a territorial dispute between the United Arab Emirates and Iran over a small island in the Strait of Hormuz that both claim, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said on Sunday.

India and Qatar sign a pact to increase cooperation in oil and gas exploration amid pressure over its energy ties to Iran.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar's sovereign wealth fund has built a 5-percent stake in Xstrata ahead of the mining giant's planned $41 billion takeover by commodities trader Glencore .

Yamaha's Jorge Lorenzo pipped Casey Stoner to pole position for the Qatar Grand Prix, the opening race of the MotoGP season.

The fugitive Iraqi Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi leaves Qatar after a four-day visit, with reports suggesting he may be on his way to Saudi Arabia.

  Google knows something about the power in numbers, even in an art website. Google Art Project, which launched last year with virtual tours and digitized artworks from 17 museums, has added 134 new museums to its site, including four from California. Initially, no museums from the state were included in the project; now the Getty Museum, the L.A. County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum ...

Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi’s office said he was in Qatar on a diplomatic visit, but the news angered officials in Baghdad, who said he was not authorized to leave Iraq.

La chaîne Al Jazeera, qui a reçu une vidéo des tueries de Mohamed Merah, va décider ce mardi à son siège au Qatar de diffuser ou non ces images, a indiqué sur BFM TV...lire la suite

US envoy to the UN urges Congress to resume funding of international body, which was cut off after UNESCO recognized Palestinians as member state; Qatar, China filling gaps left by US absence, Rice says.

Syrian activists have leaked a cache of documents purporting to be the private email of Bashar al-Assad and his coterie, penned during the slaughter of the Syrian opposition. The Guardian is working its way through them, authenticating them as thoroughly as they can. In this overview, Robert Booth, Mona Mahmood and Luke Harding tour the [...]

Qatar has not confirmed if it will sell alcohol at stadiums during the 2022 world cup, although a top official says he didn't see a reason to do so.

Kabul  - Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmay Rasool will visit Qatar to meet government officials to discuss reconciliation with the Taliban, a ministry spokesman said on Saturday, a sign the nascent peace process could gain momentum. Rasool is scheduled to leave for Qatar in ten days, Foreign Ministry spokesman Janan Mosazai told Reuters. The Afghan Taliban announced in January it would open a ...

Der hohe Ölpreis und die Verkehrsflugsteuer dämpfen die Stimmung der Airline-Manager auf der weltgrößten Reisemesse ITB. Air-Berlin-Chef Hartmut Mehdorn verweigerte eine Jahresprognose. Und der Chef von Qatar Airways warnte vor einer Pleitewelle der Fluggesellschaften.

[[371311]] PARIS (AFP) : François Hollande, candidat PS à l'Elysée, a appelé au "patriotisme" des grandes entreprises pour qu'elles recrutent des "jeunes des banlieues" et demandé aux talents recrutés aux Etats-Unis et au Qatar de "rester travailler avec nous", dimanche sur France 3. "Je prends un...

Pakistani foreign minister says Afghan president still unclear whether he wants to hold peace talks with Taliban in QatarPakistan will not support a US-driven initiative to start Afghan peace talks in Qatar until it is clear that they have the backing of the Kabul government, the Pakistani foreign minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, has said.In an interview with the Guardian, Khar said even after a vi...

Absent du Tour du Qatar (malade), l’Allemand de l’équipe Lotto-Belisol a d’emblée trouvé ses repères à Oman où il s’est imposé de manièr...lire la suite

LEE WESTWOOD was forced to apologise after his mum caught him swearing on live television at last week’s Qatar Masters, the world number three admitted yesterday.

The tiny Gulf emirate have effectively replaced Iran as the outside country with the greatest influence on Hamas

Le Qatar a acheté pour 250 millions de dollars (près de 190 millions d'euros) Les Joueurs de cartes de Cézanne.

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AMMAN (Reuters) - Qatar has proposed sending Arab troops to halt the bloodshed in Syria, where violence has raged despite the presence of Arab League monitors sent to check if an Arab peace plan is working.

Desecration of dead bodies, appalling as it is, shouldn’t derail peace work being done in Qatar - or overshadow the Taliban’s lethal campaign against civilians

As the insurgents say, the U.S. has the watches but the Taliban has the time.The Taliban's on-again, off-again approach to negotiations on a political settlement appears to be on again. Or so it seems from the announcement that it will open an office in Qatar to have a secure "address" (this seems to be the prevailing diplomatic term of art) from which it can participate in talks.

DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- David Beckham is set to stay with the Los Angeles Galaxy after turning down a chance to join Paris Saint-Germain, the French club said Tuesday.

Comme le PSG, le Bayern Munich de Franck Ribéry est en stage actuellement au Qatar. Un lieu tout indiqué pour...

DOHA (AFP) - The Taliban must be part of any resolution to the Afghanistan conflict, Qatar’s premier said on Saturday after Kabul recalled its ambassador to the Gulf state in protest at being left out of talks over the opening of a Taliban office there. “A solution in Afghanistan requires the participation of the Taliban in a way that must be decided by the Afghans,” Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani s...

The international community discusses the world's future course in Afghanistan until the West's withdrawal in 2014. Earlier hopes that the Taliban may send representatives to Bonn appear to have been dashed by the lack of progress in the secret talks brokered by Germany and Qatar. Pakistan plays a critical role and its decision to boycott the Bonn conference is a great mistake.

En quelques années, Al-Jazira a bousculé le paysage médiatique dans la région et créé un espace public transnational, devenant ainsi un acteur majeur des bouleversements qui secouent le monde arabe depuis la fin de l'année 2010. / Golfe, Proche-Orient, Monde arabe, Audiovisuel, Information, Médias, (...) / Golfe, Proche-Orient, Monde arabe, Audiovisuel, Information, Médias, Mouvement de contes...

Die Fluggesellschaft Qatar Airways hat den europäischen Flugzeughersteller Airbus öffentlich abgewatscht - und kurz darauf dennoch einen Großauftrag erteilt.

Rest assured, dear readers, I'm hard at work cobbling together the 2010 Albies.  It's a Friday, however, which means there's a preternatural instinct to look for something amusing to blog about.  Unfortunately, today's payroll figures don't cut it.  Fortunately, there's a golden rule for humor in world politics:  sports + global governance = comedy gold.  And sure enough, today FIFA preside...