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Soccer Qatar’s Bedouin roots star in World Cup opening ceremony

Soccer Qatar’s Bedouin roots star in World Cup opening ceremony

ANDREW MILLS QATAR'S Bedouin roots, embodied in a tent-shaped stadium, were on display as the country's emir opened the World Cup at a ceremony during which he kissed his father's hand and welcomed the world to soccer's biggest event, the first time it has been staged in the Middle East. "From Qatar, from the Arab world, I welcome everyone to the World Cup 2022," Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said. "How lovely it is that people can put aside what divides them to celebrate their diversity and what brings them together." Then, fireworks exploded from the roof of Al Bayt stadium,…
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‘I’m going to die’: a migrant recalls his perilous Channel crossing

‘I’m going to die’: a migrant recalls his perilous Channel crossing

LUCY MARKS and NATALIE THOMAS SITTING in a small boat with 22 other migrants, lashed by driving rain and heaving waves, Abdullah al Badri thought he was going to drown in the English Channel. The 27-year-old Bedouin from Kuwait had been travelling across Europe for four years, a stateless refugee looking for a new home. "It was really horrible. It was a way of dying," al Badri told Reuters as he recalled his crossing to Britain from France. He doesn't know his exact departure point, but says it was near a forest. "It was really not easy to go in…
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