Archive for February, 2010

Kuwait’s immigration has asked its services not to allow maids into the country unless their sponsors had the approval of a manpower office. “No domestic helper should be allowed to enter Kuwait without proper documents from a local manpower agency proving that they have endorsed him or her,” Al Shahed daily reported on Wednesday....
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Kuwait is moving towards allowing Georgian nationals to enter the country without a visa and staying up to 90 days, Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) said. The decision was announced during the visit of Georgian Interior Minister Ivan Merabishvili to Kuwait City where he reviewed with his Kuwaiti counterpart, Shaikh Jaber Al Khaled Al Jaber...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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  An Iraqi woman running in the March elections has appealed to voters to back her up, but put the picture of her husband instead of her own on her campaign poster. She also identified her brother-in-law to capitalise on his name.  “Elect the one who is part of you … Mrs Shadha Razzaq...
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Turkish President Abdallah Gül is expected to visit Afghanistan in spring to officially open 68 schools built by Turkey. The schools are part of Ankara’s multi-dimensional aid programme for Kabul that encompasses education, health, agriculture and human resource development,” the Turkish Daily News reported, quoting unnamed sources. Afghanistan’s education minister Faruk Wardak said that...
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The world economic forum on the Middle East and North Africa will be held in Morocco in October, sources have said. “The forum will be hosted by the government of Morocco on October 26-28 in Marrakech,” the sources told Gulf News. Last year, Claus Schwab the president of the World Economic Form said that...
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