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| Rehab to work for prisoners |
| The public prosecution yesterday announced the establishment of an office to supervise a programme to rehabilitate released Qatari prisoners. |
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| Qatari Prime Minister optimistic about Darfur peace |
| HE the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani has expressed the hope that the Darfur peace process would be completed aspiring that a final agreement would be signed to brining an end to the suffering of the people of Darfur. |
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| Gaza rockets kill one |
| The latest round of Middle East diplomacy was marred yesterday as a rocket fired from Gaza killed a civilian in Israel while the EU foreign policy chief was visiting the Palestinian enclave.
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| Researchers create 3-D invisibility cloak: study |
| Researchers have taken the world a step closer to fictional wizard Harry Potter’s invisibility cape after they made an object disappear using a three-dimensional “cloak,” a study published yesterday in the US-based journal Science showed. |
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NIGHT RIDERS: MotoGP riders pose for a picture during the official group photoshoot before the final pre-season test under at the Losail International Circuit in Doha yesterday.
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Sports Scribes, sponsored by Qatar-UAE exchange, registered their third successive win in the Qatar Airways sponsored ‘B’ division league defeating Sports and More by 35 runs.
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Thrilling finishes were the order of the day and the Rowdat Al Fares Cup produced a cliffhanger of a race where Alban de Mieulle trained Rasheeqah pipped Julian Smart’s Amwaj in virtually the last stride of the 1850 metres contest. The driving finish of jockey David Bouland enabled Raihan to rally brilliantly from behind and edge past the front running Amwaj to land the spoils at the Qatar Racing and Equestrian Club yesterday.
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