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UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan grants Philippine President Bongbong Marcos' request for the humanitarian pardon of three imprisoned Filipinos, two on death row for drug trafficking and another serving a 15-year sentence for slander.
2023-06-23

A court in South Korea sentences former justice minister Cho Kuk to two years in prison after convicting him on charges of abuse of power and for helping his children enter prestigious schools using fake credentials.
2023-02-3

British sex offender David Wilson is sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for 96 offences against 51 boys aged 4 to 14.
2021-02-10

The United States Armed Forces says it has carried out its first airstrike against the Taliban since a peace deal was signed in Doha, Qatar.
2020-03-4

Matthew Hedges, a British academic student studying at Durham University, is sentenced to life imprisonment in the United Arab Emirates after being convicted of spying.
2018-11-21

Iran sends five 90-tonne air cargo payloads of perishable food to Qatar. More shipments by air and sea are underway.
2017-06-11

The Gulf Cooperation Council formally designates Lebanon's Hezbollah militia a terrorist organization. The GCC member states are Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
2016-03-2

Qatar agrees to temporarily extend travel bans on five senior Taliban leaders released last year from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for releasing American sergeant Bowe Bergdahl.
2015-05-31

Egypt charges former president Mohammed Morsi and nine others for leaking sensitive government information to Qatar.
2014-09-6

The Qatari-owned satellite channel, Al Jazeera, reports that traces of radioactive polonium-210 have been found in some personal effects of former PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004; the PLO and Arafat’s widow agree to his exhumation to investigate if he had been poisoned.
2012-07-4