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Qatar continued with its payout for Palestinian civil servants for the second month in a row, distributing around $15m of a $90m donation package. Qatar will continue to pay Palestinian government employees for four more months.

HH The Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani will meet with Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamed today, further strengthening ties between the two nations.

Qatar’s first-ever Planetarium, a state-of-the-art facility that can seat up to 200 people, is all set to open its doors at the Katara Cultural Village on December 18, the Qatar National Day.

Qatar’s population at the end of November reached an all-time high of 2.75 million people, with the number of men and women each going up compared to October.

After several months of rising fuel costs, petrol and diesel will be costing significantly lesser in Qatar in December.

Geekdom, the biggest-of-its-kind pop culture event in the country, will feature exciting events at the Katara Cultural Centre during the Ajyal Film Festival.

HH The Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who met in Istanbul,  have signed a number of important agreements and MoUs.

Qatar’s Minister of Foreign Affairs HE Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has bemoaned the descent of the Middle East from bad to worse due to the several issues in the past decade.

If you are Internet junkie and find current data plans to be restrictive, then these new unlimited mobile broadband plans from Ooredoo are likely to make you very happy.

The Qatar National Day Organising Committee has released a detailed list of events that will take place in the country in the run-up to and during this year’s National Day.

The fifth edition of the British Festival in Qatar promises to have a lot of fun activities to look forward to, including 20 live events and an attempt at breaking a world record.

The 39th GCC Summit, scheduled to be held in Saudi Arabia next month, will see the participation of all six Gulf nations including Qatar, confirms Kuwaiti Minister. He also expressed hope it would be a step in the right direction to end the Gulf crisis.

A joint exercise — 2018 Qatar Falcon — which was jointly carried out by the Amiri Naval Forces and the British Royal Marines, concluded in Doha yesterday.

A second Qatari communication satellite — the Es’hail 2 —  has successfully been launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA.

Qatar has welcomed Twitter’s recent campaign against fake profiles and spam bots on its service platform, many of which were used to malign the country since the start of the illegal siege.

Qatar’s Met Department has warned people that the heavy rain, which lashed different parts of the country yesterday, is very likely to continue today as well.

With Qatar’s winters fast approaching, the Hamad Trauma Centre has warned ATV users in the country to be doubly careful as it is a common reason for accidents in the sand dunes.

If you are in Qatar this weekend, then be careful because the Met Department has warned about chances of rain and swirling winds beginning today until Tuesday.

The ‘Frecce Tricolori’ Doha Air Show 2018, organised by the Italian Airforce Acrobatic Team and Qatar Display Team, is set to mesmerise Qatar’s residents at the Doha Corniche on November 10 and 11.

If you are into skateboarding, BMX riding or rollerblading, then you should definitely check out the brand new Skate Park which opened up inside Qatar Foundation.