Qatar’s offer to build 3 power plants to ease Lebanon’s electricity crisis is blocked
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s political class, fuel companies and private electricity providers blocked an...
Qatar government
Israel orders Al Jazeera to close its local operation and seizes some of its equipment
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel ordered the local offices of Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite news networ...
Biden calls regional partners ahead of CIA chief’s meeting in push for another Gaza hostage deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden spoke Friday with his Egyptian and Qatari counterparts ahead o...
Sen. Bob Menendez seeks dismissal of criminal charges. His lawyers say prosecutors ‘distort reality’
NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Bob Menendez on Wednesday sought dismissal of charges, including bribery, as hi...
Prosecutors accuse Sen. Bob Menendez of introducing Qatari royal family member to aid NJ businessman
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez introduced a member of the Qatari royal family and principal ...
A Qatari court reduces death sentence handed to 8 retired Indian navy officers charged with spying
NEW DELHI (AP) — Qatar’s Court of Appeal reduced Thursday the death sentence handed in October to ei...
Kuwait’s ruling emir, Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah, dies at age 86
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait’s ruling emir, the 86-year-old Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sa...
Qatar is the go-to mediator in the Mideast war. Its unprecedented Tel Aviv trip saved a shaky truce
JERUSALEM (AP) — The deal seemed on the verge of unraveling. Hamas had accused Israel of failing to ...
Live updates | Timing for the Israel-Hamas pause in fighting will be announced in the next 24 hours
A cease-fire agreement between the Hamas militant group and Israel has been confirmed by both partie...
French performers lead a silent Paris march for peace between Israelis and Palestinians
PARIS (AP) — Holding olive branches and white banners, French performers from different religious an...
India ‘exploring all legal options’ after Qatari court sentences 8 Indians to death for spying
NEW DELHI (AP) — The Indian government on Thursday vowed to explore “all legal options” after a Qata...
Biden, others, welcome the release of an American mother and daughter held hostage by Hamas
EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden joined others on Friday in welcoming the stunning new...
Americans freed from Iran arrive home, tearfully embrace their loved ones and declare: ‘Freedom!’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans detained for years in Iran arrived home Tuesday after being freed as par...
Australian minister says invasive examinations were part of reason Qatar Airways was refused flights
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Transport Minister Catherine King said on Thursday that invasi...