ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban on Tuesday confirmed their delegation will attend an upcoming U.N.-led meeting in Qatar on Afghanistan after the organizers said last week that women would be excluded from the gathering. The meeting on June 30 and July 1 is the third U.N.-sponsored gathering on the Afghan crisis in the Qatari capital […]
Dozens of passengers who boarded a Qatar Airways plane in Athens, Greece on Monday expected to be on their way to their destination – Doha, Qatar – relatively quickly. Instead, they found themselves trapped inside a grounded plane for more than three hours, according to passenger Garth Collins, who posted about his experience on Instagram. […]
CAIRO (Reuters) – Mediators Egypt and Qatar received a response from Hamas and Palestinian groups to a U.S. ceasefire plan for Gaza, the Egyptian and Qatari governments said on Tuesday as an official briefed on the matter said Hamas proposed a new timeline. The statement from Egypt and Qatar did not disclose what the response […]
A British-Mexican man who says he was targeted for being gay and arrested on false drug charges in Qatar has been given a suspended six-month jail sentence, a fine amounting to about $2,700, and a deportation order by a court in the Arab nation, which is a vital U.S. ally in the Middle East, according […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky travelled to Doha on Wednesday for talks with Qatari Emir Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani. The two leaders were to discuss Qatar’s mediation on the issue of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia during the current conflict, Zelensky said on the social media platform X on Wednesday. Bilateral economic issues and the […]
DUBAI/DOHA (Reuters) -Qatar said on Tuesday it delivered an Israeli proposal to Hamas that reflected the positions stated by U.S. President Joe Biden, adding that the paper was now much closer to the positions of both sides. Qatar, which has been mediating on Gaza between Israel and Hamas, also stressed that there should be a […]
(Reuters) -Qatar Airways PJSC is nearing a decision on a major widebody order split between Boeing and Airbus, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. The Middle East carrier is looking at ordering about 200 jets, looking at a mix of Airbus A350s and Boeing 777X models, with a decision possible […]
Twelve people were injured during a Qatar Airways flight hit by turbulence while en route from Doha to Dublin on Sunday, officials said. The flight QR107, which landed in Dublin just before 1 p.m. local time, experienced turbulence while airborne over Turkey, Dublin Airport officials said in a statement. The aircraft was met by emergency […]
Emergency services attended to 12 injured from turbulence on a Doha-Dublin flight. The Qatar Airways plane met turbulence over Turkey, injuring passengers and crew. This follows a deadly turbulence incident on a London-Singapore flight earlier this week. Emergency services are attending to 12 people who were injured due to turbulence on a flight from Doha […]
DOHA (Reuters) -Qatar is re-evaluating its role as mediator in ceasefire talks between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, citing concerns that its efforts are being undermined by politicians seeking to score points, its prime minister said on Wednesday. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who is also foreign minister, said […]
Travellers hoping to avoid airport delays are best to book with Qatar Airways or fly in Latin America. That’s because Qatar Airways was the world’s most “on-time” carrier in March, according to data published by Cirium, an aviation industry analytics business, which show Latin America as the region with the most timely arrivals and departures. […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian court has rejected a case brought by five women seeking compensation from Qatar Airways over invasive gynecological examinations conducted on passengers at Doha’s airport in 2020, but their case against the airport’s operator is going ahead. The five, whose identities have been concealed by the courts, were among hundreds […]