The Economist
MOST small countries find it wise to keep their heads down in world affairs. Qatar is small, a pancake-flat peninsula less than half the size of Belgium. Barely a quarter of its 750,000 people are citizens, the rest being foreign workers and their families. But the bantam-sized emirate has a habit of punching above its weight, and in several directions at once.
This week, for instance, Qatar has bolstered the UN's peacekeeping efforts in Lebanon (...)
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