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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Ochoa holds Brazil to draw UK to reopen Qatari family embassy in Iran LONDON: Britain said yester- day it would reopen its embassy earns QR72,700 in Iran “within months,” after a hiatus of more than two and a half years, a diplomatic break- through that underscores the West’s desire to secure Tehran’s a month: Survey help in Iraq and elsewhere. The move came after the United States said it may launch air strikes and act jointly with Average three times higher than expats’ arch-enemy Iran to shore up the Iraqi government, after a ram- DOHA: The average monthly household spent QR8,033 on food page by Sunni Islamist insurgents income of a Qatari family is a (QR2,700 in the case of expatri- that has scrambled alliances in whopping QR72,700 ($19,964), ate), QR5,700 on overseas travel the Middle East. which is nearly three times (QR1,648 in an expatriate family’s The announcement, by British the earnings of an expatriate case) and QR2,031 on recreation Foreign Secretary William Hague, household, shows a survey. and entertainment. These were is likely to raise hopes of a break- An expatriate family, on the monthly averages. through in talks with world pow- other hand, earned approximately An expatriate family spent ers about Iran’s disputed nuclear QR24,400 ($6,700), on average a barely QR444.78 a month on programme.