Qatar

By Henning Gloystein

LONDON - The European Union could ban gas exports and limit industrial use as part of emergency measures to protect household energy supplies this winter, a source told Reuters, as it braces for a possible halt in Russian gas as a result of the Ukraine crisis.

Both Qatar and the UAE have been in the firing line for human rights violations and eyes to imrove their image in the US with help of football Gulf States seeking to polish images tarnished by allegations of violations of human rights and their critics are employing football in an effort to shape American perceptions.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stepped down as Turkey’s prime minister and was installed as the country's 12th president on Aug. 28, after a parliamentary ceremony boycotted by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP). 

Outgoing President Abdullah Gül said a warm farewell to the Çankaya Mansion in the takeover ceremony.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is stepping down as Turkey’s prime minister and being installed as president, in a ceremony boycotted by the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP). 

The governments of Turkey and Qatar have been involved in negotiations with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to free the Lebanese security personnel taken hostage by the militant group, Lebanon’s al-Akhbar reported Aug. 28.

Qatar's state investment fund, Qatari Diar, has pulled out of a project to build a luxury resort in the Przna bay in the coastal town of Tivat.

The "Beyond Horizon" project, which started in 2011, envisaged the construction of five-star villas in a cove with a sandy beach in Krtole, near Tivat, and was worth about 350 million euro.

More than 90 international leaders and politicians are expected to attend Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s presidential handover ceremony.  

At least 15 countries will be represented at the highest level at the event, however, the United States will send its Ankara Embassy’s chargé d’affairs, a rather low level participant compared to other countries.

An American journalist held for nearly two years by militants linked to Al-Qaeda in Syria returned to the United States late Tuesday, two days after Qatar negotiated his release, his family said.
     
Peter Theo Curtis, 45, was reunited with his mother Nancy Curtis at Boston Logan International Airport after flying from Tel Aviv to Newark, New Jersey.
      

An American journalist held hostage in Syria by a militant group linked to al-Qaida was released on Sunday.

The release of Peter Theo Curtis, 45, had been facilitated by the Gulf emirate of Qatar. It came just days after the barbaric execution of American reporter James Foley by Islamic militants.

There are more and more calls from the football world calling international governing bodies to sanction Israel in regards to its attacks on Palestine Ahmed Mohammed al-Qatar and Udai Jaber’s burgeoning football careers came to a screeching halt in early August when the two 19-year-olds were shot dead by Israeli forces in the West Bank town of Hebron during a protest against the war in