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A Pakistani cabinet minister says Islamabad will continue to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar under a 15-year agreement, despite the severing of diplomatic ties with Qatar by Saudi Arabia and some other countries.
Shahid Khaqan Abb
A Pakistani cabinet minister says Islamabad will continue to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar under a 15-year agreement, despite the severing of diplomatic ties with Qatar by Saudi Arabia and some other countries.
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the federal minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, said Qatar and Pakistan last year signed a $1 billion agreement, under which Qatar's Liquefied Gas Company Limited will sell LNG from 2016 to year 2031 to state-run Pakistan State Oil.
He said since no sanctions have been imposed on Qatar by the United Nations, Pakistan and Qatar were bound to abide by the agreement.
Qatar has released an initial report into the alleged hack of its state-run news agency, an incident which helped spark a diplomatic crisis between the energy-rich country and Arab nations.
The Qatari Interior Ministry said late Wednesday that the website of the Qatar News Agency was initially hacked in April with "high techniques and innovative methods."
It said hackers installed a file and then published a fake news item attributed to Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, just after midnight May 24.
The ministry did not say who it suspected carried out the attack. It also thanked the FBI and the British National Commission for Combating Crime for assisting it in its investigation.
The alleged fake news item, which had Sheikh Tamim making controversial comments on Iran and Israel, immediately was picked up by Saudi and Emirati media, laying the groundwork for the crisis that began Monday (05.06.2017.)
Kuwait's emir has traveled to Qatar and met that country's leader as part of his efforts to mediate an end to a crisis that's seen Arab nations cut ties to the energy-rich country and attempt to isolate it.
Kuwait's Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah was met planeside by Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, when he arrived on Wednesday night.
The two held talks, though details of their discussions were not released. Sheikh Sabah earlier Wednesday traveled to Dubai where he met with Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who also serves as prime minister and vice president of the UAE.
Sheikh Sabah also has traveled to Saudi Arabia in his efforts.
It said hackers installed a file and then published a fake news item attributed to Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, just after midnight May 24.
The ministry did not say who it suspected carried out the attack. It also thanked the FBI and the British National Commission for Combating Crime for assisting it in its investigation.
The alleged fake news item, which had Sheikh Tamim making controversial comments on Iran and Israel, immediately was picked up by Saudi and Emirati media, laying the groundwork for the crisis that began Monday (05.06.2017.)
Kuwait's emir has traveled to Qatar and met that country's leader as part of his efforts to mediate an end to a crisis that's seen Arab nations cut ties to the energy-rich country and attempt to isolate it.
Kuwait's Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah was met planeside by Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, when he arrived on Wednesday night.
The two held talks, though details of their discussions were not released. Sheikh Sabah earlier Wednesday traveled to Dubai where he met with Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who also serves as prime minister and vice president of the UAE.
Sheikh Sabah also has traveled to Saudi Arabia in his efforts.
Keisha Hill/Senior Gleaner Writer Jamaica-born entrepreneur, philanthropist and global youth advocate Dr Ni’Cola Mitchell has transformed personal adversity into one of the most impactful girls’ empowerment movements in North America. From humble beginnings in Jamaica to having her life story adapted into a film and featured on Netflix, Mitchell’s journey is rooted in resilience, faith, healing and purpose.
Pregnant Vogue Williams displayed her baby bump as she and husband Spencer Matthews led the celebrity charge at day one of the Chelsea Flower Show on Monday.
A law enforcement source told the NY Post that anti-islamic writings were found in the car and 'hate speech' was written on the weapons used in the shooting.
Shona Manderson, who has waived her anonymity, alleged that Bradley Skelly engaged in a non-consensual sex act while they filmed the Channel 4 show, a claim he denies.
Since September 2025, the United States has been combating drug trafficking in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, including through the use of lethal military force against alleged drug trafficking boats coming from Latin America and the Caribbean. These operations, which have reportedly caused at least 185 fatalities, have drawn criticism from international players and legal experts, who argue that they violate international law and human rights. As the EU is hit by unprecedented quantities of drugs, it is stepping up its cooperation with Latin America to combat narcotrafficking through a variety of programmes and international cooperation agreements. Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP
Charles Spencer tied the knot quietly with Professor Cat Jarman on Friday - five years after she arrived at the historic Althorp Estate, pick-axe in hand, on an archaeological dig.
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Makeup artist Nina Bakhshi was celebrating her 28th birthday in Cancún when the getaway turned into a 'life changing accident.'
MIKE KEEGAN: The PFA was forced to hand back £2.5m it had taken from its own charity amid an era of 'serious mismanagement', an explosive report by a government watchdog has disclosed.
Residents in the coastal village of Hythe, Hampshire, are mourning the loss of the Scots Pine, which has stood in the seafront park of a village in a National Park for years.
The household price cap is on track to rise by £209 a year as soaring wholesale costs from the Middle East crisis are passed on.
I believe that now the Renters' Rights Act has come into force, the old tenancy agreement has been superseded. How do I communicate this to my tenants?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is not a harmless technology: it can be misused by users to create illegal content. One major concern is the creation and dissemination of online child sexual abuse deepfakes. Recent reports have shown a significant increase in AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM), raising questions about how to stop it. A new provision in the EU AI Act will forbid the generation of CSAM from 2 December 2026. Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP
The Titan Ridge Volcano is erupting in the Bismarck Sea, sending ash and smoke into the sky and prompting authorities to warn of possible tsunamis in the area.
Kennedy Masis filmed the eruption of a volcano in PNG's Bismarck Sea after seeing it while fishing for tuna.
Communications Director Yevgenia Yashina said the exact number of drones that attacked Energodar is being established
According to the Russian Investigative Committee, the emergency landing was caused by an engine failure
According to Russia’s Defense Ministry, the drills are set to practice readying some of nuclear forces’ units and formations for accomplishing assigned objectives
The nets feature an innovative «spider knot» weave
According to Boris Rozhin, the probe will transfer the issue of American military-biological activity abroad from the level of charges to the status of legal recognition
'I have visited those caves countless times. There is no current. They swam into that third cave. They chose to go in there,' a former military diver for the Maldives National Defence Force tells the Daily Mail.
The residents of picturesque Willows Green near Felsted were left watching in horror as travellers concreted over one local field over the May bank holiday weekend.
Dressed in her favourite pink and white tutu with a large bow in her hair, six-year-old Martine Vik Magnussen poses excitedly for the camera at one of her very first ballet lessons.
Last Monday, I found myself standing with Kemi Badenoch at a private dinner. Eager to hear her plans for the country, I chose my question carefully.
The island of Sensay, located off the western Philippine coast - was acquired in 2025 by British tech founder Dan Thomson - who seeks to turn it into a nation led entirely by AI robots.
[This Day] The Chairman of the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN), Mr Wole Ogunsanya, has called on the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) and other oil producers in the country to urgently develop markets for Nigerian crude outside the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) quota system.
[New Zimbabwe] Sonja Louise Madzikanda, the estranged wife of Wicknell Chivayo, says she was arrested and detained at Highlands Police Station on allegations of denying the controversial businessman access to their children and stealing one of his electronic devices.
According to the newspaper, Israeli forces control over half of the Gaza Strip
There were no casualties or injured
The decision is based on the fact that the Russian regulator’s claim against Euroclear Bank is not recognized under EU legislation, and «Euroclear does not recognize the court’s jurisdiction»