Coach Felix Sanchez said they didn't do their best 'maybe because of the responsibility or for being nervous'. Qatar became the first host nation to lose the opening game of a World Cup.
Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso joined the festivities with his country 'making history'. The game marked the first time a host nation had been beaten in a World Cup opener.
Naik faces money laundering & hate speech charges in India. Earlier this year, the Centre had banned Naik-founded Islamic Research Foundation for 5 years.
The Al Qaeda's regional branch criticised Qatar for 'bringing immoral people, homosexuals, sowers of corruption and atheism into the Arabian Peninsula'.
The announcement comes 2 days before Sunday's kickoff, the first to be held in a conservative Muslim country with strict controls on alcohol, the consumption of which is banned in public.
A report by FIFA this year revealed that more than half of players at last year's European Championship and Africa Cup of Nations were subjected to discriminatory abuse online.
Major World Cup sponsor Budweiser has exclusive rights to sell beer at the finals and will serve its products at the 40,000 capacity FIFA Fan Fest in central Doha's Al Bidda Park.
The tournament in Qatar — 1st edition to be held in the Middle East and 2nd in Asia after Japan & South Korea hosted in 2002 — begins on 20 November with the home side taking on Ecuador.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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