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UAE releases Qatari naval vessel, military personnel
May 07, 2019 00:35The United Arab Emirates (UAE) says it has released a Qatari military ship that purportedly violated the tiny Persian Gulf state’s territorial waters last week.
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Qatar says not issuing visas for Egyptian ‘enemies’
May 06, 2019 02:34Qatar’s tourism chief says the country will not be issuing visas to its “enemies,” in reference to people from Egypt, which has stopped issuing travel documents to Qatari nationals and has, along with three other Arab governments, severed ties with Doha.
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Iran’s FM: Idea of regional dialogue forum mooted at Qatar meeting
May 03, 2019 01:07Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the idea of setting up a regional dialogue forum has been put forward in his “important” talks with foreign officials at an Asian conference in Doha.
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Chaos pending: US bans on Iran’s oil keep market on edge
May 02, 2019 01:10The United States' insistence on zeroing out Iran's oil exports is starting to cause all kinds of commotion in the global market, keeping confused both experts and buyers as they look straight into what is shaping up to be a chaotic chapter for the petroleum industry.
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Syria allows planes of Qatar Airways to use airspace after 8 years
Apr 23, 2019 12:21The Syrian government has agreed to a request by the Qatari civil aviation authority to allow planes of Qatar Airways to fly over Syria, eight years after the Persian Gulf's peninsular state suspended its ties with Damascus.
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Defense Department announces deaths of US service members in Iraq and Qatar
Apr 22, 2019 03:14The US Department of Defense over the weekend identified two US service members killed in non-combat related incidents in Iraq and Qatar.
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Saudi Arabia sentences renowned journalist to 5 years in jail in secret trial
Apr 21, 2019 01:22Saudi authorities have secretly tried prominent journalist Ali al-Dhafiri and handed him a five-year prison sentence as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against rights campaigners and intellectuals widens in the conservative kingdom.
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Turkey, Qatar, China, Iraq denounce US blacklisting of IRGC
Apr 10, 2019 00:19Turkey, Qatar, China, and Iraq have separately denounced US President Donald Trump’s recent move to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist group.
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Qatar files lawsuits against UAE, Saudi banks over currency intervention
Apr 09, 2019 01:57Qatar has filed three lawsuits in London and New York against Saudi and Emirati banks, accusing them of using what it called overseas currency manipulation to sabotage its economy amid an ongoing Riyadh-led diplomatic and trade boycott against Doha.
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Iran says Trump’s ‘ruthless’ policies undermining intl. peace, order
Apr 08, 2019 01:37Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani says the “ruthless” policies adopted by US President Donald Trump during his term in office have created a tense situation in the world, undermining the global order and international peace.