France’s foreign minister on Saturday said that the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud Al Mabhouh indicates the need for an immediate recognition of a Palestinian state in the region. “It shows the need for peace and a Palestinian state, immediately,” Bernard Kouchner told Le Journal Du Dimanche when asked in the interview about the...
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The mystery shrouding the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud Al Mabhouh in Dubai last month is deepening amid new reports that Britain’s MI6 and Foreign Office had known that Israeli intelligence service Mossad would use British passports for an operation outside Israel. The Daily Mail on Friday reported that MI6 was tipped off that...
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A Palestinian former security leader has denied reports that he was connected with the killing of a Hamas commander in Dubai last month. “I have no connection whatsoever with the assassination of Mahmoud Al Mabhouh,” Mohammad Dahlan said. “All the evidence and proofs gathered by the Dubai police indicate the involvement of Israel’s Mossad...
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British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has demanded Israel’s full cooperation in investigating the fraudulent use of British passports by the killers of a Hamas leader in Dubai last month, describing their misuse as an “outrage”. “What the Permanent Secretary made clear is that we wanted Israel to co-operate fully with the investigation (that has...
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The two Palestinians held by Dubai police in connection with the murder of Hamas leader Mahmoud Al Mbahouh last month have been identified by an Israeli daily as an intelligence operative and a Palestinian Authority employee. “A Palestinian intelligence and an employee of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah were arrested in the Jordanian capital...
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A Kuwaiti lawyer is suing Toyota Motor Corp, Kuwait’s commerce ministry and the chamber of commerce and industry over compromising drivers’ safety on the road. Fahad Nasser Al Ajmi said that the international company had admitted the existence of defects and recalled millions of cars in Europe and Asia, but not in Kuwait, Al...
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Bahrain’s parliament should move forward towards amending a press draft law to ensure the decriminalisation of all press offences and the establishment of an effective self-regulatory body, an international watchdog has said. The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said that it was backing demands by its affiliate, the Bahrain Journalists Association (BJA), to...
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A free trade agreement between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Turkey will be signed before the end of this year, Turkey’s Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek, said. The minister told reporters in Manama that negotiations on the free trade agreement have been going on for almost four years and expressed confidence that trade...
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Kuwait has a plan to boost its native population to at least 50 per cent of the total number of people living in the northern Arabian Gulf emirate, a Kuwaiti minister said. The plan includes further reducing the number of foreigners staying illegally in the country. “Under the recently approved development plan, there will...
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Israel’s Ambassador to Britain, Ron Prosor, has been summoned to explain on Thursday the use of passports in the assassination of a Hamas leader in Dubai, an Israeli daily has reported. The summoning seemed as part of the full investigation pledged on Wednesday by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown into the use of the...
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