Italy’s grand art of gardening, where love of nature smoothly blends with art and passionately hugs with architecture, as admired in the numerous villas and giardini of the romantic Peninsula, will be represented for the first time at the Bahrain International Garden on February 25-28 in Manama. The Italian showpiece will present various products...
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Bahrain plans to deport around 20,000 illegal foreigners in the first six months of the year, the labour minister said on Wednesday. The figure is about half of the total number of illegal expatriates, estimated at 41,000, Majeed Al Alawi at a meeting of an ad hoc ministerial committee tasked with addressing the phenomenon...
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Crown Prince Salman Palestinians have been suffering and losing precious lives because of the Arabs’ unclear policies, Bahrain’s crown prince has said. “We have to put an end to the senseless bidding and be realistic and responsible in our approach to the Palestinian issue,” Prince Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa said. “The Palestinians have...
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Russia will supply Kuwait with several types of weapons under a bilateral agreement, Kuwaiti media said on Wednesday. Quoting Alexander Kinshchak, Russia’s ambassador to Kuwait, Al Anba said that the two countries have agreed on all the details and that Kuwaiti experts will be trained on the use of the new weapons. A Kuwaiti...
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The lawyers of the Kuwaiti woman who allegedly set a tent ablaze killing 57 women and children have called for her immediate release for lack of evidence as the court set March 31 for the verdict. Nasra Al Enezi has been charged with starting in August a wedding fire tent in Jahra in the...
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Leading religious scholars in Kuwait have rejected a fatwa (religious edict) seeking to put to death opponents of strict segregation of men and women, saying that it was a call for sedition and chaos within the Islamic nation. Saudi religious figure Shaikh Abdul Rahman Al Barrak on Tuesday said that the mixing of genders...
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Majeed Marhoon Majeed Hameed Marhoon, one of Bahrain’s best-known composers, died on Tuesday from illness. Born into a poor family living in Manama, Majeed, 65, is known as Bahrain’s Mandela after he spent 22 years in prison for attempting in March 1966 to kill a British officer and his assistant who were allegedly in...
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