Canada: Qatar gives up bid to relocate UN agency

TORONTO A bid by Qatar to relocate the United Nations civil aviation agency from Montreal to the tiny emirate has angered Canada, where politicians from all sides vowed Friday to band together to fight the proposed move. The International Civil ...

You need to enable Javascript to play media on Bloomberg.com The tiny Persian Gulf nation of Qatar controls vast gas and oil deposits that feed billions of dollars annually into the state Treasury. Its petroleum riches make it the wealthiest nation ...

By Sarah Marsh BERLIN Nasser Al-Khater, the organising committee's communications and marketing director, also said the tiny gulf state would construct its stadiums with modular technology so it could downscale them after the tournament, and donate ...

* Tiny country has history of big inflation swings * Rate now at highest since 2009 * Long time frame for infrastructure building may limit pressure * Authorities may use price regulation, monetary policy * But small size, dollar peg make Qatar ...

The tiny South Pacific island of Vanuatu is competing with Russia and Qatar to host the 2015 men's world boxing championships.

Tiny, U.S.-allied Qatar has emerged as one of the strongest international backers of the rebellion against Syrian President Bashar Assad. Many in the Syrian opposition laud Qatar, saying it has stepped in while the international community has failed ...

TEHRAN, Apr. 14 (MNA) Qatar, a tiny country in the Persian Gulf, has been resolved to play a role in international equations, a thing that has created much trouble for it. Belgian daily La Libre wrote in its report on Qatar's attempt to widen its ...

The emirate recently bought $3 billion in government bonds from cash-stripped Egypt in the latest example of the country channeling its wealth beyond its borders. This badly needed sum of money comes two years after Qatar hailed the overthrow of ...

By Kaveh L Afrasiabi CAMBRIDGE, Massachussetts - In a development that is bound to raise Iran's anger toward the tiny oil state of Qatar, Ahmed Moaz al-Khatibi, the head of Syrian opposition, has announced his resignation, citing attempts by Qatar ...