Doha, Qatar – (AFP) Qatar has said that World Cup fans have “a lot of options” with more than 100,000 rooms currently available and tens of thousands more expected by the tournament’s kickoff. Some football supporters have expressed concern that they have been unable to find accommodation in line with their budget for t...
Baghdad, Iraq – (AFP) As a seven-year-old boy in Baghdad, Mohamed Ali had dreams of becoming a goalkeeper — until a car bomb in the central Tahrir Square ripped away his left arm. Today, at age 22, Ali is a member of an all-amputee football team, made up entirely of players who lost arms or […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – NATO on Thursday confirmed that it would provide security support to Qatar during the 2022 FIFA World Cup. “The support will include training against threats posed by Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) materials, which will be delivered by Slovakia and NATO’s Joint CBRN Defence Centre of Exc...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Morocco’s Royal Basketball Federation said Sunday it had signed a cooperation agreement with the Israeli Basketball Association (IBBA). In a statement, the Moroccan federation said the deal aims to develop the basketball sport in both countries. According to the statement, a friendly basketball match will be held between ...
Doha, Qatar While Qatar is known for its scorching heat, some fans will still take a sweater to World Cup stadiums because of the state-of-the-art air conditioning that its mastermind says will become the norm for mega sports events. Saud Abdulaziz Abdul Ghani, nicknamed “Dr Cool”, worked for 13 years on the solar-powered cooling s...
KARACHI, Pakistan – Young Pakistani mountaineer Abdul Joshi has scaled Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth in order to become the country’s eighth climber to achieve it. Joshi belongs to the Hunza valley of northern Gilgit-Baltistan region, which borders neighboring China. He was part of a 13-member team that summited the 8,849-...
ISTANBUL – Palestinian weightlifter Hamada Mohammed has won a gold medal at the IWF Junior World Championships. Mohammed won the top prize in the men’s 102 kg snatch category after lifting 168 kilograms. Having lifted 193 kg in the cIean and jerk, the 20-year-old took home the bronze overall with 361 total points. Uzbek athlete [&h...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): A young Pakistani mountain climber has scaled the world’s third-highest peak “Kunchenjunga” in Nepal, becoming the youngest mountaineer of the world to climb the three tallest peaks on the planet. Shehroze Kashif, 20, summited the 8,586-meter (28,196 feet) peak to become the world’s youngest climber to scale the third t...
ANKARA (AA) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi held talks over phone on Monday with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to discuss cooperation between the two countries during this year’s World Cup tournament in Qatar. Raisi wished success for the Gulf nation in hosting the high-status event, the Iranian Presidency said in a...
Ghanian football star Abdul Majeed Waris, the Racing Strasbourg forward, is funding a mosque project in his Ghanaian hometown. The Twitter page of the player’s foundation shared photos of the mosque that showed work on the project is moving forward successfully. The two-story mosque is under construction in the Lamashegu community in Tamale ...
