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UPDATED to include comment from the Qatar government’s communications office. Big3 basketball league founders Ice Cube and Jeff Kwatinetz are suing a group of Qatari nationals for $1.2 billion, claiming the investors boasted of connections to the royal family and its riches, but paid little more than half of the money…

In a surprise move, Israel is looking to ban Al Jazeera from operating in the country and in occupied Palestinian territories after claims the Qatar-funded news network "supports terrorism." Israeli communications minister Ayoob Kara announced on Sunday that press cards for the company's reporters would be revoked, a…

In what is being viewed as the worst diplomatic crisis in the Middle East since Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, Qatar has been given a further 48 hours to comply with a list of demands – including closing down major news network Al Jazeera – from four neighboring Arab states that have cut ties to the country. The closure…

Miramax today joined the long list of companies protesting a new anti-gay law that the governor of North Carolina signed last week. But the new owner of Miramax, Qatari businessman Nasser Al-Khelaifi, is also a minister without portfolio in the government of the oil- and gas-rich nation of Qatar, where it…

The Doha Film Institute has launched a film fund designed to support Qatari filmmakers. The announcement, made during the Ajyal Film Festival, will see up to four features and up to eight short films supported by the Qatari Film Fund. At least one feature film from the development fund will also receive production…

Today’s sentencing of two Al Jazeera English journalists to seven years in jail, and another to 10 years, defies “logic, sense, and any semblance of justice,” Al Anstey, Al Jazeera English managing director,  said.  An Egyptian court sentenced the three journalists on charges including aiding the Muslim Brotherhood…