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A Peek Inside Qatar’s ‘gas Capital of the World’

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Perched on a northern tip of Qatar, about an hour’s drive from the gleaming capital Doha and at the end of “Route 77”, stands the secretive city of Ras Laffan. Behind its closely guarded gates, Ras Laffan is home to 30,000 people, the best white truffles in Qatar, apparently, and a turtle conservation project. It … Read more

Dilma Rousseff On Being Betrayed

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After a lengthy process that took nine months, Brazil impeached its first female president, Dilma Rousseff. The impeachment proceedings, launched owing to accusations of “fiscal peddling”, followed revelations of a massive corruption scheme at state-owned energy giant Petrobras. Before assuming the presidency, Rousseff was chairman of Petrobras, Brazil’s biggest company, between 2003 and 2010. When … Read more