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More than 1.2 million soccer fans heading to Doha for the World Cup will be able to take advantage of Bedouin-style tents if they can’t find hotel rooms.

Organizers said 1,000 tents will be up for rent for the November tournament, with 200 of them offering luxury-style “glamping” facilities.

“We will give the opportunity for fans to live in a desert, to offer visitors an authentic taste of Qatari camping,” said Omar al Jaber, head of accommodation at the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy.

A blind gospel singer is suing for the right to run in the presidential election.

Reuben Kigame, the first disabled presidential candidate in Kenya history, was barred from the upcoming August poll.

Kigame’s campaign team claims the country’s Electoral Commission discriminated against him because he is blind and gave no “credible” explanation.

Nepal is set to move the Everest base camp because global warming and a flurry of foreign climbers have made the site unsafe.

The camp, used by up to 1,500 people during the spring climbing season, is on Khumbu glacier.

“We are now preparing for the relocation and we will soon begin consultation with all stakeholders,” said Taranath Adhikari, director general of Nepal’s department of tourism.

A new site at lower altitude is being contemplated, he said.

A budding ballet dancer who can’t afford shoes or a rehearsal space is practicing her moves in the fields and streets of Naogaon in northern Bangladesh, and has become an Internet star.

Mubashshira Kamal Era has been dancing since 2017, and says she learned her steps from watching YouTube tutorials.

In the Muslim-majority country where there is no women’s dance school, Era practices publicly in bare feet.

Anti-war activists have found a new way to rail against their government’s invasion of Ukraine: housing refugees from the fighting.

“It’s our way to protest,” said Veronika Timakina, a 19-year-old activist.