Sheikh Hamad News
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After paying for stakes in European companies, landmarks in London, uprisings in the Middle East and a soccer title in France, Qatar may be getting ready to go home.
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Four companies owned by state-run Qatar Petroleum plan to sell shares to the public in the coming years as the country, home to the world’s third-largest gas reserves, seeks to build its $136 billion stock exchange.
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Here is the genius of Qatar, the peanut-sized Persian Gulf state that provides material support to Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and possibly some of Syria’s jihadist rebel groups, in a single image: A two-cheeked kiss, in public, between Qatar’s second-most powerful man, the prime minister (and foreign minister), Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, and Haim Saban, the Israeli-American billionaire who funds, among other things, the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.
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President Barack Obama met with the emir of Qatar at the White House as the two nations consider different approaches toward toppling Syria’s leader and share concerns about Iran’s nuclear ambition.
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On a snowy morning in the middle of February, Tony Blair, looking trim from his four- to five-times- a-week workout regime, is sipping coffee in his office in London’s Mayfair district.
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Qatar should use its “gazillions of petrodollars” to finance peacemaking, not confrontation, an Israeli official said today, responding to a planned $1 billion fund to protect “the Arab character” of Jerusalem.
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Italy’s Costa Smeralda resort area on the island of Sardinia has been bought by Qatar’s investment fund, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani said.
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When the Qatari emir stepped out of a helicopter and crossed into Gaza last month, the placards bearing his face and the flags draped from buildings marked more than just gratitude for $400 million of investment.
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The late-night negotiating session that led to a sweetened takeover offer by Glencore International Plc for Xstrata Plc on Sept. 7 included a former British prime minister and a swashbuckling commodity-trading billionaire. It’s possible neither was the most influential man in the room at London’s Claridge’s Hotel.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is traveling to Qatar today to discuss the opening of a Taliban office there that will facilitate peace talks, according to his spokesman, Aimal Faizi.
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