FIFA World Cup 2022: Qatar preparations continue 'as normal' despite diplomatic crisis
• 8 years agoDespite the country being at the centre of a diplomatic crisis which has seen Qatar cut off politically — and economically — from neighbouring Gulf countries, organisers were unworried, said the source.
Qatar diplomatic crisis: Foreign minister Sheikh Al-Thani denounces Gulf sanctions as 'unfair', 'illegal'
• 8 years agoQatar's foreign minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani denounced the sanctions imposed against Doha by Saudi Arabia and its allies as "unfair" and "illegal".
Qatar diplomatic crisis: Gulf nation launches direct shipping services with Oman ports amid row
• 8 years agoQatar announced it had launched direct shipping services to ports in Oman, a move that bypasses a Gulf "blockade" on a country largely dependent on food imports.
Qatar crisis: RS MP Shantaram Naik asks Sushma Swaraj to protect interests of Indians in Arab country
• 8 years agoRajya Sabha member of parliament Shantaram Naik has asked Union External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to protect the interests of Indians in Qatar
Gulf diplomatic crisis: Qatar slams Saudi Arabia's move to bar its citizens, says it's a breach of human rights
• 8 years agoA Qatari official has said an ultimatum issued by Saudi Arabia and its allies for the emirate's citizens to leave is a violation of human rights that requires UN intervention.
25% of world's population will lack access to clean water by 2050, says United Nations
• 8 years agoAntonio Guterres has warned that by 2050 global demand for fresh water is projected to grow by 40 per cent and at least a quarter of the world's population will live in countries with a "chronic or recurrent" lack of clean water.