Doha, 21 Sept. 2020 The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), Qatar Foundation’s global health initiative, has announced a strategic partnership with BMJ, one of the world's most prestigious and most cited general medical journals. Under the new partnership, WISH have worked with BMJ on three reports that will include peer-reviewed academic papers written by...

Tehran, 20 Sept. 2020 (AlJazeera news)  The United States has broken with all other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and unilaterally declared the re-imposition of all UN sanctions against Iran - a claim rejected by Iran and the international community, including Washington's close allies, as having no legal basis. In a statement...

Ankara, Turkey, 20 Sept 2020 (Anadolu News) Criticizing the UN’s belated response to the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, Turkey’s president said on Monday that “the UN failed once again.” “The United Nations, which acknowledged the existence of the [coronavirus] pandemic weeks later, did not show any presence in terms of taking the necessary measures to combat...

Islamabad, 20 Sept. 2020 (Misc. Media Reports) ‘Pakistan Democratic Movement’, an alliance of opposition parties in Pakistan including main stream parties Pakistan Muslim League (PMLN) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has demanded immediate resignation of Prime Minister Imran Khan and holding of free and fair elections in the country,  He said that a failure to...

19 Sept. 2020 (WHO) There have been 30,369,778 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in 188 countries, and 948,795 deaths, reported by World Health Organization on 19th Sept. 2020. Around 20.3m are recovered worldwide As of 19 September 2020, following are region wise  confirmed positive coronavirus patients :   Region                                       Positive               Deaths Americas                ...

Washington, 14 Sept. 2020 (QNA) 3rd Qatar-US Strategic Dialogue began today  in Washington chaired by Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani in his opening speech said that the holding of the third session of the Qatar-US...

Beijing, 14 Sept. 2020 (Xinhua0) Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday China and the European Union (EU) should adhere to peaceful coexistence, openness and cooperation, multilateralism, as well as dialogue and consultation for the sound and stable development of their relations. Xi made the remarks when co-hosting a China-Germany-EU leaders' meeting in Beijing via...

Doha, 14 Sept 2020 The number of Metrash2 users has exceeded 2 Million since its launch, while the transactions completed since the beginning of this year have reached 5.5M transactions, and the total number of inquiries about the services provided in the application exceeded 9 million inquiries. Ministry of Interior, State of Qatar On-line services...

Doha, 12 Sept. 2020 As part of the efforts to achieve sustainable peace in Afghanistan, landmark Afghan peace negotiations launched in Doha in the morning of Saturday, 12 September 2020 at Doha Sheraton Hotel. Following the US-Taliban Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan signed in February in Doha, start of direct negotiations between the Afghan...

Doha, 12 Sept.2020 Intra-Afghan dialogue as per Doha agreement of February 2020 between Taleban and United States will take place in Doha from Saturday 13th September. Landmark Doha agreement of February 2020 guarantees withdrawal of US troops  from Afghanistan against security from the Taliban. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State of Qatar announced on Thursday in...