Word: qatar
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...order to kill anyone with a white flag. Al-Hayat, a Saudi-owned paper read by Muslims around the globe, said Rumsfeld uttered the words with a "coldness that makes the hearts of legal experts shiver." Pundits on al-Jazeera, the 24-hr. views-and-news channel based in Qatar, asserted that Northern Alliance troops were mostly shooting those from Arab nations who had gone to help the Taliban. Though Rumsfeld clearly said he opposed such executions, it seemed to many Arab journalists that he was implicitly condoning them. Charged Abdelbari Atwan in the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi...
...Tanzania, where he climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, and Madagascar, where he met the only Korean family on the whole island. Familiar with the Korean food his own family eats, Albert tasted a blend of Korean and Madagasci cuisine, in which unripe bananas replaced traditional potatoes. More recently, he flew to Qatar courtesy of Harvard grants and the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development to follow trade negotiations for the organization. Interviewing delegates and writing for a daily newspaper, Albert took an active interest in the negotiations. He explains that he follows trade policy conferences “like some people...
Albert H. Cho described himself as “generally pretty boring,” a charge his friend, FM co-chair and international sex symbol Vicky C. Hallett, rebutted by pointing out that Albert was just in Qatar at a suspicious-sounding “conference.” He recited an poem about Vicky that he emptily claimed was made up on the spot, which climaxed, in all senses of the word, with him giving Vicky a hickey, which rhymes with Vicky. Other dinner guests refrained from saying anything about the display making them sicky...
...conservative clerics to allow a single young woman to study abroad, albeit with her father's permission. Bangladesh passed legislation increasing the punishments for crimes against women, including rape, kidnapping and acid attacks. Egypt has banned female circumcision and made it easier for women to sue for divorce. In Qatar women have the right to participate in municipal elections and are promised the same rights in first-ever parliamentary balloting scheduled to take place by 2003. Bahrain has assured women voters and candidates that they will be included in new elections for its suspended parliament...
...ripple effect of the U.S. anthrax experience spread to Doha, Qatar, where the WTO agreed to a more flexible formula for providing discounted drugs to developing nations dealing with major disease outbreaks. Big drugmakers are still playing hardball, though. Adamant about safeguarding the patent profits that fund drug development, the companies work hard at extending the life of their patents to keep them out of the hands of generic drug makers...