Speculation mounted in Tel Aviv on Tuesday that Turkey’s ambassador to Israel had asked his superiors in Ankara to transfer him to a new posting following his undiplomatic treatment by Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon. Quoting Jewish Army Radio, Israeli media reported that Ahmet Oguz Celikkol had asked his superiors in Ankara to transfer...
Read more »
A leading Bahraini lawmaker has expressed “tremendous concerns” that claims about Al Qaeda in Yemen threats to world security would turn out to be as baseless as the ones made about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction. “Al Qaeda in Yemen has been given incredibly impressive proportions which it does not deserve,” Adel Al...
Read more »
Tension is heightening up dramatically in the Gulf amid plans by the Gulf Cooperation Council countries to reinvigorate their security agreements in anticipation of a military confrontation in the region and Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani criticised blasting the US deployment in the Gulf as a “puppet show” and a “political fraud.” According to...
Read more »
A Bahrain women’s rights group has stepped up pressure to make the citizenship issue among the top priorities in the application of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). “Temporary solutions or measures in addressing this critical issue and alleviating the suffering of Bahraini woman married with foreigners...
Read more »
A Kuwaiti social affairs and labour ministry official has denied media reports claiming that visit visas can be turned into work permits. “There is no truth to the reports that family visit or tourism visas can be changed to residence permits,” the unnamed official was quoted as saying by Al Siyassah daily on Tuesday....
Read more »
