DOHA (Parliament Politics Magazine) – According to the Global Sustainability Assessment System, the FIFA World Cup venue Stadium 974 received a five-star rating, reported the Qatar News Agency. The venue has a capacity of 40,000-capacity. Prefabricated and modular steel components, which cut
DOHA (Parliament Politics Magazine) – The tiny Gulf nation of Qatar is getting ready to receive over a million soccer fans as it prepares for a World Cup tourism boom. One problem: many of them are unable or unwilling to stay there.
TEHRAN (Parliament Politics Magazine) – According to the Guardian’s report on Tuesday, Iran has been shaken by protests after a woman who was detained for violating recently tightened hijab rules confessed on state television after allegedly being tortured. The 28-year old Sepideh
TEHRAN (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Imminent European proposals to resurrect the nuclear deal between the West and Iran including the release of frozen Iranian funds worth billions of dollars and oil exports in exchange for Iran curtailing its nuclear programme. Sources familiar
BEIRUT (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Najib Mikati, the prime minister-designate of Lebanon, has started a new effort of government formation and ended the protracted political impasse that has engulfed the nation for months. After their Wednesday meeting, President Michel Aoun received a
BEIRUT (Parliament Politics Magazine) – On August 4, 2020, at 6:07 p.m. local time, hundreds of tonnes of dangerously stored ammonium nitrate ignited in Warehouse 12 in the Port of Beirut. The third biggest non-nuclear explosion devastated the port and a whole
KABUL (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Since the targeted killing of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Doha deal, which was agreed between the US and the Taliban almost two years ago, has been the topic of heated controversy. On Sunday morning, a US
BAGHDAD (Parliament Politics Magazine) – In support of powerful Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr, protesters broke into the Iraqi parliament once more, inflicting at least 125 injuries and worsening the political deadlock. The protest on Saturday comes after protestors stormed the parliament and
DAMASCUS (Parliament Politics Magazine) – Activists and local media said conflicts between armed citizens and gangs and the government security services resulted in at least 17 deaths and scores of injuries in Sweida, the southern Syrian province. The Syrian Observatory for Human
JERUSALEM (Parliament Politics Magazine) – In a rare street demonstration against the Palestinian Authority’s “rule by decree,” hundreds of Palestinian lawyers in the occupied West Bank denounced President Mahmoud Abbas for running the country without a parliament. Since 2007, the Palestinian Legislative
