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Belgian federal police recently found €150,000 ($157,700) in cash at the Brussels home of the Vice-President of the European Parliament, Eva Kaili (Panhellenic Socialist Movement), who was then arrested and charged with corruption. She remains in jail. Also arrested were Luca Visentini, secretary general of the International Trade Union Confederation, and former socialist MEP Pier-Antonio Panzeri. Francesco Giorgi, Kaili's domestic partner and former parliamentary assistant to Panzeri, was also arrested. The home of MEP Marc Tarabella (Socialist Party) was searched.
An Amnesty International campaigner on Tuesday led calls for "truth, justice, and compensation" after Qatar's World Cup chief admitted that hundreds of migrant workers died during the construction of projects related to the FIFA tournament.
According to information from Statista, the Qatar World Cup will be the most expensive ever, with the costs amounting to almost $220 billion.
In a major new study, Dr. Laith Abu-Raddad of Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar and colleagues revealed that natural immunity is 97% more effective against severe COVID-19.
A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine after studying the Omicron wave in Qatar shows that vaccination increased the risk of COVID-19 infection, but infection without vaccination gave immunity.
According to several sources during the Qatar World Cup, having sex with anyone other than their spouses can result in up to seven years in jail.
Last week, a study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine that suggests that people who have already been infected and recovered from Covid-19, are naturally immune to Covid and at low risk of reinfection and contracting the disease again.
In what seem like a big goof-up, the White House accidentally exposed the cover of CIA operatives at Doha station.
Deaths of more than 6,500 South Asian workers has been reported in Qatar building stadiums for the FIFA World Cup 2022 from 2011 to 2020. An average of 12 migrant workers died each week in 2011 to 2020. The sources suggest slack safety protocols surrounding construction of stadiums and infrastructure in Qatar were the reason for these deaths.
Operation Timber Sycamore is the codename of a covert operation officially authorized by Obama in June 2013 to train and equip the anti-Assad rebellion, but which actually started in October 2011, when the CIA was operating via Britain’s MI6 to avoid having to notify Congress that...
