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From fake entry permits and betting sites to fake cryptocurrency, cybercriminals have spun all the tricks to lure football fans in the name of the FIFA World Cup, IT security intelligence firm CloudSEK warned on Monday.While India is not part of the FIFA World Cup, the Indian community is reportedly estimated to be the largest among the expatriate population in Qatar which is hosting the biggest football tournament.The Bengaluru-based cyber security firm said that several Telegram channels were found selling Hayya cards…

Qatar signed a small-scale agreement to supply Germany with natural gas, its first long-term deal with Europe, as Berlin races to cover future needs after the end of its energy relationship with Russia. Qatar, one of the world’s largest exporters of the fuel, has agreed to send Germany two million tons of liquefied natural gas a year for at least 15 years, starting from 2026, in a deal with U.S. energy major ConocoPhillips. The volume would cover around 3% of Germany’s 2021 annual gas consumption. While the…

Ahmad Nourollahi of Iran in action during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group B match between England and IR Iran at Khalifa International Stadium on November 21, 2022 in Doha, Qatar.Richard Sellers | Getty Images Sport | Getty ImagesIranian state media is calling for the U.S. World Cup soccer team to be thrown out of the 2022 tournament in Qatar after it briefly changed the icon of the Iranian flag on its social media accounts in support of protests taking place in the country.The United States Soccer Federation, in its…

The platform, Tod TV, is owned by the Qatari broadcaster beIN Media Group, which was banned in Saudi Arabia for several years during a row between the two countries but was restored in October 2021. The official streaming platform of the World Cup is inaccessible in much of Saudi Arabia, subscribers told AFP on Saturday, saying they had received no explanation for the outage.The platform, Tod TV, is owned by the Qatari broadcaster beIN Media Group, which was banned in Saudi Arabia for several years during a row between…

The 2022 Qatar World Cup Is Here! Will The Colossal Event Boost Runfy, Chiliz, and BNB? by IndustryTrends November 23, 2022 The FIFA World Cup is a mammoth event, ranking as the most watched sporting event in the world with the Olympics. Thirty-two nations battle for World Cup glory, with one team taking the trophy. Such a colossal event draws the attention of many companies and even crypto platforms, with BNB (BNB) releasing an NFT collection of Cristiano Ronaldo.Chiliz (CHZ) is the world’s leading blockchain provider…

A yacht that can be rented to watch the World Cup while sailing around Dubai is docked in Dubai harbor on November 1, 2022, ahead of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup football tournament. Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)Giuseppe Cacace | Afp | Getty ImagesDUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Qatar isn't the only country getting a massive boom in tourism thanks to its hosting of the 2022 World Cup. The neighboring United Arab Emirates is set to benefit from the wave too, with its glitzy…

Cameras are pictured on March 28, 2022 above Qatar’s Al-Bayt Stadium in Doha, which will host matches of the FIFA football World Cup 2022Photo: Gabriel Bouys (Getty Images)On the creepier side of things, this year’s World Cup will also go down as one of the most tightly surveilled in the sport’s history. This year, each and every attendee entering a stadium will be tracked by a system of 15,000 cameras equipped with facial recognition technology. The surveillance apparatus, reminiscent of the tech used by more notorious…

Doha, Qatar captured by the Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) on Landsat 9 on November 13, 2022. (Click image for wider, high-resolution view.)Several new stadiums were built in and around Doha for the World Cup.Thirty-two teams and more than 1 million football (soccer) fans headed to Qatar in November 2022 for the World Cup. The destination is Doha, Qatar’s fast-growing capital city, located on the coast of the Persian Gulf in the east of the country.This natural-color image of Doha, Qatar was captured on November 13,…

The first match of the men’s football World Cup kicked off in Qatar on 20 November, when the temperature was expected to be around 30 °C and humidity approaching 60%. When Qatar first won the bid to host the tournament 12 years ago, extreme heat was one of several concerns; since then, the average annual temperature in the country has risen by around 1°C. The 2022 tournament is the first to be held in November, to avoid Qatar’s hot summer. But how will the footballers fare? And does the tournament hold lessons for how…

The state-owned energy company will supply four million tonnes of liquefied natural gas annually from its new North Field East project to the China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation. North Field is at the centre of Qatar's expansion of its liquefied natural gas production by more than 60 percent to 126 million…