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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A Kuwaiti lawmaker filed a request on Tuesday to grill Information and Oil Minister Shaikh Ahmad Abdullah Al Sabah over a controversial TV show deemed offensive to Bedouin tribes. MP Ali Al Deqbasi, a member of the opposition Popular Action Bloc, charged the minister of failing to apply the 2006 law on the financial...
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Kuwait will seek to help defuse the diplomatic tension between Libya and Switzerland, the Kuwaiti foreign minister has said. Shaikh Mohammad Al Sabah who started on Monday a European tour of Portugal, Britain, Luxemburg and Belgium, will also visit Libya for discussions that include the Arab summit to be hosted by Tripoli next month...
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Islamist Kuwaiti lawmakers have condemned the participation of their women’s football team in the Asian championship as a “breakdown in social values” and demanded an investigation. “The minister of labour and social affairs should take action against those who allowed the participation,” MP Mohammad Al Hayef said. “The matches are part of the chaos...
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Israel’s Public diplomacy minister Yuli Edelstein on Monday said that the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud Al Mabhouh should not be considered as murder. In a blatant “smiling PR drive”, the minister told the Henry Jackson Society think tank at the House of Commons in London that it would be wrong to become “overly...
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