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CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced six people, including two Al-Jazeera employees, to death for allegedly passing documents related to national security to Qatar and the Doha-based TV network during the rule of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.

Statistics recently released by the government of Qatar indicate 58 percent of people in the country live in government-designated “labor camps,” highly-monitored neighborhoods designed to control the movement of migrant workers.

Leading up to a crucial meeting for the global cartel next week, OPEC leadership has made plain that the price of oil is far too low to encourage investment and supply the global market in the longer term. The comments follow a variety of indicators beginning to signal a larger recovery.

The latest issue of al Qaeda’s “Inspire” magazine spotlights President Obama’s meeting with Ahmed Mohamed, and claims the “Clock Boy” is an inspiration for bomb makers.

TEL AVIV – Turkey will sign a reconciliation agreement with Israel if the latter agrees to resolve the electricity and water crises in the Gaza Strip, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters in Qatar on Friday.

The Afghan Taliban says it has sent a “high-level” delegation to Pakistan, a spokesman for the jihadist group has confirmed to Voice of America (VOA).

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members and the United States have reached an agreement to prevent the shipment of Iranian weapons to Yemen, according to Abdullatif al-Zayani, the alliance’s secretary general.

The rally in oil prices over the past few weeks was based on hopes that oil-producing nations would agree to freeze production at a pivotal meeting in Doha, Qatar, but the talks collapsed without an agreement on Sunday.

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Contents: India about to deploy its first nuclear-armed submarine, in challenge to China; China’s military takes control of another Philippines fishing ground; Mideast Sunni-Shia split grows as GCC says Hezbollah is terrorist organization

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TEL AVIV – A Saudi journalist wrote that Muslims and Arabs should spend less time condemning Donald Trump’s proposal for banning Muslims from entering the U.S. and more time apologizing to the world for the terrorism that is taking place in the

Saudi Arabia has scuttled talk of a deal with other big oil nations to cut production and “warned high-cost operators such as U.S. shale drillers to trim costs or go bust, in a stark message that triggered fresh pressure on crude prices,” as the Financial Times put it.

Contents: Latest Syria peace plan officially fails; Shifting alliances across the Mideast

Muslim prayers on Fridays at the United Nations headquarters in New York have begun taking up a large area next to the General Assembly Hall, shunning a designated ecumenical prayer area.

It looks as if a cease-fire might be on tap for the Oil Wars, as Russia has reached a tentative agreement with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Venezuela to freeze oil production at current levels, to shore up falling prices.

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Transgender-themed Oscar favorite “The Danish Girl” has been pulled from cinemas in Qatar after the film failed to clear the country’s censor board.

Qatar has banned “The Danish Girl” movie — about an artist who undergoes one of the world’s first sex changes and which stars Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne — from cinemas, officials announced Monday. The move follows protests online about the “depravity”

Contents: Saudi Arabia and Iran accuse each other of terrorism; Arab countries deeply divided over Iran vs Saudi Arabia confrontation

Iranians took to social media to mock Djibouti after the small country located in the Horn of Africa cut ties with Tehran.

In a deepening regional rift, the nation of Qatar has severed diplomatic relations with Iran, joining Bahrain, Kuwait and Sudan in backing Saudi Arabia. Qatar is the latest country to recall its ambassador to Iran following the attacks on Saudi

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Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed the disgraced and alleged corrupt FIFA President Joseph “Sepp” Blatter deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.

Iraqi officials claimed gunmen kidnapped 26 Qatari falcon hunters, including members of the royal family, in southern Iraq.

With sanctions about to be lifted, Iran unveiled a “new model” for a 25-year joint-venture oil and gas production contract on terms favorable to foreign companies in an effort to recruit $100 billion in foreign capital to break Russia’s natural gas monopoly in Europe.

Ahmed Mohamed’s lawyers are demanding $15 million, according to letters to the city of Irving, Texas, and Irving Independent School District (ISD) that list their grievances. While it is possible that on one or more issues Mohamed might have a claim, most—if not all—of this lawsuit appears meritless.

During her trip to Qatar, First Lady Michelle Obama challenged more women to reach their “full potential” of getting jobs, instead of simply getting married and staying at home with the children.

Late-night funnyman Conan O’Brien and First Lady Michelle Obama are teaming up to visit U.S. military personnel at the Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar. The trip will be filmed for an upcoming episode of O’Brien’s TBS show.

A Hezbollah-aligned Lebanese parliamentarian has responded to the possibility of Qatar entering the Syrian Civil War, tweeting that “Doha will be shelled” if Qatar enters the conflict.

Syrian rebels supporter Qatar said it is considering a direct military intervention in Syria following Russia’s airstrikes in support of dictator Bashar al-Assad but added that it still prefers a political solution to the civil war.

Ahmed Mohamed accepted a full scholarship to attend a Qatar school instead of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). “Clock Boy” Ahmed chose the reputed home of the Muslim Brotherhood over an institution revered among the world’s finest science and engineering universities. Ahmed is the Texas teen who was arrested and suspended from high school last month after bringing a homemade suitcase clock mistaken for a hoax bomb.

Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old teenager who rose to fame after he brought a disassembled clock that looked like a bomb into class, is moving to the Islamic supremacist nation of Qatar.

Beverly Hills businesses are rolling out the red carpet for visiting Arab royals, despite concern over two recent incidents involving Saudi and Qatari royalty.

The Iranian-British architect Dame Zaha Hadid has stormed out of an interview with the BBC’s Today Program after being challenged on two major, and widely criticised, architectural projects. Hadid, who in 2015 became the first woman to be awarded the