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• Qatar fund awards $140m for research

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• Qatar scraps plan for metered parking areas

• Qatar to liberalise Haj services

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• 'violence casts doubt on Annan's Syria plan'

• GCC endorses security pact

• 3 GCC countries to announce they'll join union

• New message to Iran likely at GCC summit

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• Kuwait blogger 'blasphemy' trial set for May 21

• Kuwait warns against campaigning for candidates

• Campaign: Kuwait warns drivers, impounds cars

• Kuwait warns against backing Egypt's candidates

• Lawmaker suspended for 'indecent behaviour'

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• Network in Syria plays in secrecy

  Underground railway for goods, fund raising and other needs is shrouded in secrecy

• Rebels get significant boost in arms, support

• Turkey to raise Syrian threat at Nato gathering

• Aid groups defy Syrian government's diktat

• Egypt vote monitors say state hindering work

• At least 15 summarily executed by Syrian regime

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• Police warn of Philippines online child abuse

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• Robert F Kennedy Jr's wife found dead

• Paralysed woman controls robot arm with mind

• Nepal's first blind restaurant a hit with diners

• Police Federation to warn Theresa May

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