Qatar has hired seven American lobbying firms and spent nearly $5 million (Dh18.35 million) on US lobbying and media campaigns since June to try to win over hearts and minds in its dispute with Arab countries.

On June 5, fellow Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member countries Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE as well as Egypt severed their relations with Qatar accusing it of harbouring extremists and funding terrorism.

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A controversial member of Qatar's royal family said on Saturday that Qatari authorities have frozen his bank accounts over his role in Doha's crisis with its neighbours.

'The Qatari regime has honoured me by freezing all my bank accounts,' Sheikh Abdullah bin Ali Al-Thani tweeted.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt severed ties with"...

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani is scheduled to visit Indonesia on Oct. 17-18 to try to strengthen relationship between the two countries, especially in the business sector, an Indonesian official confirmed on Friday (13/10).

This is a return visit by the Emir after President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo visited Qatar in September 2015.

'The most"...

A race for the helm of the United Nations’ cultural agency has exposed a diplomatic tiff between Egypt and Qatar.

On Friday, UNESCO selected former French culture minister Audrey Azoulay as its new chief after edging Qatar’s Hamad bin Abdulaziz al-Kawari after a fifth round of voting.

This came hours after Azoulay defeated Egyptian candidate Moushira Khattab"...

Consumer prices fell 0.5 percent from a year earlier last month, after a 0.4 percent drop in August that was the first fall since at least early 2015, when the current data series began.

Housing and utility prices sank 4.7 percent from a year ago in September, their biggest drop for at least several years, and fell 0.7 percent from the previous month. In August, prices had slipped 4.0 percent from a year earlier.

Housing"...

Oman Qatar Insurance Company said its initial public offering (IPO) has been oversubscribed 1.4 times mainly driven by a strong demand from both retail and institutional investors.

A subsidiary of Qatar Insurance Company, OQIC said it has successfully closed the IPO of 25 per cent of its total share capital, or 25 million existing ordinary shares, at a price of Bzs 160 per Offer share. The subscription period for the offering closed last week.

Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue (DICID) will organize on Oct. 17 and 18 an international conference in Ukraine under the theme of the role of religious values in promoting community stability and spreading a culture of coexistence and rejection of hatred' in cooperation with the Ukrainian Dialogue and Communications Center and the participation of a group of intellectuals and researchers from the three heavenly religions.

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Hamad Medical Corporation will open a medical clinic for the winter camping season in Sealine. The clinic operational from November to March 2018 will be equipped to handle all type of mild to emergency cases. There will be an airstrip along side the clinic in case a critical patient needs to be airlifted to the Hamad hospital.

Sources confirmed for 'Al-Sharq' that the medical clinic will open with the beginning of November, to provide best"...

Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), a member of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development has hosted a public lecture titled 'Education and the Blockade: Challenges and Opportunities'. The lecture was held recently with Daniel J Martin, president of Seattle Pacific University, as the main speaker.

Held at the Education City Student Center, President Martin's lecture focused on the evolving role of the education"...

Interest is building in the third annual The Maritime Standard Ship Finance and Trade Conference, which takes place on November 8th at the Sheraton Abu Dhabi Hotel and Resort. The theme of this year’s one-day event is ‘Building strong partnerships to generate investment-led growth’ and will highlight key issues facing the shipping, ports, banking and finance sectors as they seek to capitalise on emerging opportunities and avoid potential pitfalls.

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