Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani was in attendance in Zurich, and he thanked Fifa for "believing in change".

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Last November, Qatar's emir, Sheik Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, opened the I.

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Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani said the UN Security Council's failure to end the conflict meant it would be better for Arab countries to "interfere" in Syria.

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President Obama today met with Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the Amir of Qatar, a nation the United States works with on a range of issues, including security, military cooperation, commerce and trade.

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Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, head of state in Qatar, launched Al Jazeera Arabic in 1996 by hiring a group of staffers from BBC's defunct Arabic service who had been kicked out of Saudi Arabia for airing an interview with Saudi dissidents.

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The ruling Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, wants to put his tiny country and its fast-growing capital Doha on the map, and is spending millions in a huge tourism push.

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