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Qatar ( or ; ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), also known as the country or State of Qatar or locally Dawlat Qaṭar, is a sovereign Arab state, located in Western Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the much larger Arabian Peninsula.
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Qatar's Interior Ministry says 13 children are among 19 killed in fire at a Doha shopping mall.
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Qatar's Interior Ministry said 13 children were among 19 people killed in a fire that broke out at one of the Gulf state's fanciest shopping mall on Monday.Authoriti...
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Blaze in Doha killed at least 19 people
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Frantic as the flames spread in a mall fire that killed 19 people in Qatar, Filipino nursery teacher Julie Ann Soco made one final call on her cellphone. "Help me, h...
Qatar's Interior Ministry said 13 children were among 19 people killed in a fire that broke out in one of the country's fanciest shopping malls late Monday morning, ...
Qatar issued arrest orders for the owner of a fire-ravaged mall and four others as investigations widened Wednesday into possible safety lapses during a blaze that k...
Qatar says investigators are examining possible design flaws that funneled dense smoke into areas around a daycare center in the country's biggest mall, where 13 chi...
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