The two founders of a charity set up to reward US troops who serve in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan are leaving Kuwait after a 16-year long campaign. Kuwait-based Lionel Gittens and his wife Sheila deeply thanked the local charities that have sponsored Operation Christmas (OPC), responsible for handing over 1.722 million individual gifts and providing...
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A prominent Bahraini intellectual who believes that culture is the last line of defense for the survival of Arabs, has warned that holding an Arab cultural summit would be “a humiliation for Arab minds” if it did not result in concrete achievements. “Honestly, if an Arab cultural summit is held merely to meet growing...
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Fifty-four members of the U.S. Congress have signed a letter asking President Barack Obama to put pressure on Israel to ease the siege of the Gaza Strip. The letter was the initiative of Representatives Jim McDermott from Washington and Keith Ellison from Minnesota, both of whom are Democrats, Israeli daily Haaretz said. Ellison is...
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Israel’s diplomats in Ankara have rejected an Israeli foreign ministry’s report accusing Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of inciting anti-Semitism. Israel’s embassy in Ankara sent an angry message home, saying a report on Israeli-Turkish ties prepared by the Foreign Ministry’s Center for Political Research was “divorced from reality.” The classified report, distributed to...
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Bahrain’s government employees have been told to adhere to appropriate protocol and appearance requirements when on official missions in order to better reflect the status of the country and avoid punitive action.”Government officials are the reflection of the country’s status and in this capacity, any wrong attitude from their will have negative repercussions on...
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A good wish call from Egypt’s foreign minister to his Algerian counterpart ahead of a crucial game between the two nations was scorned by Algerian media. “The Egyptian congratulations on Algeria’s qualification to play in the semi finals were three days late and do not augur well for the match on Thursday,” Echerouk newspaper...
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Kuwaiti MPs are pressing the government to investigate alleged shortcomings in preventing the highway tragedy that killed five Kuwaitis and critically injured many people. “There is information that a Kuwaiti national had called the police to tell them about the crowd gathering to watch a car race on the Doha highway. He called about...
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Ambassador Huseyin Dirioz, the top foreign policy aide to Turkish President Abdallah Gul, is likely to be appointed deputy secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), Turkish sources said on Tuesday. Dirioz is among four candidates seeking the position, but Ankara is optimistic that he will be chosen to the high position....
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Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has rejected Israeli anti-Semitism accusations, arguing that his country “has never been anti-Semitist throughout its history, and it would never be so.” Dautoglu’s objection was uttered after an Israeli report targeted Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyup Recep Erdogan for backing efforts to end Gaza sufferings and openly criticising Israel’s deadly...
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Kuwaiti women married to foreigners could be given houses by the government if a motion filed by MPs is endorsed. The draft law motion calling upon the government to provide “appropriate” houses to all Kuwaiti women who are married with non-Kuwaiti men was endorsed by the parliament’s Women’s Committee and will be discussed by...
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