News stories I’m following this week …

• Fans across the Middle East celebrate a historic World Cup moment. (Al Jazeera)

• China Seals One of the Biggest LNG Deals Ever With Qatar. (Bloomberg)

• FIFA earns record $7.5bn revenue for Qatar World Cup. (Al Jazeera)

• UAE regulator revokes FTX license amid the exchange’s collapse. (Cointelegraph)

• U.S.-Saudi ties under review despite Khashoggi immunity ruling, Blinken says. (Reuters)

• Americana’s Landmark Saudi-UAE IPO Draws $105 Billion in Orders. (Bloomberg)

• Saudi Arabia's Dar Al Arkan signs deal with Trump family for Oman project. (Reuters)

• The Curious Case Of Bahrain's Disappearing Voters. (Forbes)

• Israeli military demolishes school in occupied West Bank, rights group claims. (The Independent)

• Kuwait: Controversy as Islamists 'move to curb social freedoms'. (The New Arab)

• Iranian advisers killed aiding Russians in Crimea, says Kyiv. (The Guardian)

In other news …

• Archaeologists Unearth Nearly 300 Egyptian Mummies in an Underground Tunnel System. (Popular Mechanics)

• When they came, a Qatar World Cup was unthinkable. Now it’s here. (Al Jazeera)

• What the World Cup means to foreign residents of Qatar. (Al Jazeera)

• ‘Qatar 2022 for all’: World Cup screens to be set up for 180,000 refugees. (The New Arab)

On Social-Media …

Qatar’s ‘Metro Man’ becomes fan favorite

In other ‘posts’ …

Fake news about the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 takes a new twist …

Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86

And as night follows day, the Russian embassy in the UK has now shared a screenshot from the fake Al Jazeera video about three Ukrainians being arrested in Qatar for drawing "Nazi symbols" on World Cup signs. The video is fake and was never made by Al Jazeera.

12:31 PM ∙ Nov 24, 2022

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