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Greece pulls nude Olympic statutes after Qatar wanted to cover ‘members’ with black cloth

A sculpture representing people carrying the Olympic rings stands on November 11, 2012 outside the International Olympic Committee headquarters in Lausanne. (AFP)

Greece has pulled two ancient statues from an ongoing Olympic Games exhibition in Qatar in a dispute over nudity, a culture ministry source said on Tuesday. “The statues have already returned to Greece,” a culture ministry source told AFP, adding: “Organisers in Qatar wanted to cover up the statues’ members…

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Doubts as greenhouse gas leader hosts climate meet

Severely damaged corn stalks due to a widespread drought are seen at sunset on a farm near Oakland City, Indiana, August 15, 2012. Heatwaves, drought and floods that have struck the northern hemisphere for the third summer running are narrowing doubts that man-made warming is disrupting Earth's climate system, say some scientists. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)

Qatar has much to prove in the coming days as the fossil fuel producing nation with the world’s largest per capita carbon footprint hosts the 18th UN climate change conference. Environmentalists question whether the tiny emirate has the diplomatic muscle, and more importantly, the political will, to play a positive…

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13 children among 19 dead in Qatar mall fire

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A fire that erupted at a nursery in a huge Venice-themed shopping centre in the expat-dominated Qatari capital of Doha on Monday killed 19 people including 13 children, the interior ministry said. Four of the children who died were Spanish, said a foreign ministry spokeswoman in Madrid, while Paris announced…

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Taliban Guantanamo inmates can be sent to Qatar: Afghanistan

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The Afghan government will not oppose the transfer of five Taliban detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Qatar, a spokesman for President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday. Spokesman Aimal Faizi told AFP that the prisoners had expressed their willingness to be moved to Qatar, and the Afghan government would not oppose…

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Qatar?

By know, I’m sure you’ve heard… 2018 in Russia, 2022 in Qatar. Golly, playing football in 50C heat always brings out the best, doesn’t it? Your thoughts?…

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