What happens if FIFA revokes Qatar’s World Cup bid?
When Qatar won the bid in 2010 to host the FIFA World Cup 2022, petrodollars were widely considered to have influenced the vote. Allegations of bribery repeatedly surfaced, most damningly in France Football magazine’s More...
Fifa World Cup sponsors urged to speak out over Qatar
Fifa sponsors are being asked by a new campaign grouping to speak out about working conditions at the 2022 World Cup building sites in Qatar. The working and housing conditions of migrant construction workers have More...
Greens call for England to boycott Qatar 2022 World Cup
England’s football team should boycott the 2022 World Cup in Qatar in protest over the country’s human rights record, the Green Party has said. Leader Natalie Bennett added her voice to a growing chorus More...
Who finances ISIS? Qatar
“The United States says it does believe that private individuals in Qatar are helping to finance ISIS(in Libya & Syria) and others like it..” America views its close ally, Qatar, as a terrorist More...
The Middle East needs a World Cup. Let Tunisia be the host
“Congratulations to Qatar and to us for the football victory,” wrote Jihan al-Khazen in the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat. “Winning the right to host the championship is an honour to all Arabs.” That More...
World Cup 2022 bid could be thrown open amid Qatar inquiry, says Cameron
David Cameron has indicated that the World Cup bid for 2022 could be thrown open, saying anything could be possible after the allegations of corruption about the Qatar bid. The prime minister, who spoke of More...
Ex-Fifa Official Accused Over $5m Qatar Bribe
A former senior Fifa official allegedly paid $5m (£2.98m) in bribes to secure support for Qatar’s successful 2022 World Cup bid. The Sunday Times has claimed Mohamed Bin Hammam, an ex-Fifa executive member More...
Al-Sisi Wins Egyptian Presidential Election
Detailed election results: 27,668,183 total votes 1,764,195 voided ballots Hamdeen Sabahi 854,634 Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi 23,789,354 More information: Voter turnout after two days of More...
Philippine ‘spy’ sentenced to death in Qatar
The Philippines confirmed on Friday, May 23, that a Qatari court sentenced a Filipino to death last April 30 “for espionage and economic sabotage” – charges which, a report said, implicate the Philippine More...
Migrant workers: Qatar cleans up its act
By any standards the states of the Arabian peninsula are severely handicapped. They have small populations, a sparse geography, few resources other than petrocarbons, and monarchical political systems only lightly More...