DOHA (AFP) - The emir of gas-rich Qatar said on Thursday on a brief visit to the Comoros that his country would pay the salaries of the island nation's civil servants who have not been paid for months, an official said.
The official QNA news agency quoted a member of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani's delegation as saying he would cover all of the civil servants' salaries for the nine mont [...]
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DOHA (AFP) - Qatar's energy minister said on Tuesday he sees no push by OPEC members to raise oil output to counter a spike in prices to 18-month highs.
Asked by journalists whether he thought the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries ought to meet to review the highest prices in a year and a half, Abdullah al-Attiya said: "No, I don't think so."
He said that at this point, "no produ [...]
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DOHA (AFP) - Gas-rich Qatar unveiled a budget for the 2010-2011 fiscal year on Tuesday that forecasts a surplus of 2.7 billion dollars from 35 billion dollars in revenues, QNA state news agency reported.
The planned 32.3-billion-dollar outlay would mark a 25-percent rise on the previous year, while the increase in revenues would be 44 percent over the same period, QNA cited a finance minist [...]
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PARIS (AFP) - Qatar's bid to host a football World Cup at a time of year when temperatures are baking is brave, but the Gulf state is counting on high technology to overcome the potentially prickly problem.
Qatar has emerged as a serious contender for the 2022 World Cup, with a seemingly limitless budget and ambitious plans to drastically improve its poor transport network.
Importantly, [...]
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