Members of a hit squad who killed a Hamas leader used Irish passports to enter and leave Dubai, the Irish Herald has reported. Mahmoud Al Mabhouh, 50, was found dead in mysterious circumstances on January 20 in a Dubai hotel room. But, according to the newspaper report quoting police authorities, up to seven people,...
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Kuwait’s National Assembly Speaker Jassem Al Khorafi said that Kuwait would not allow the use of its territories to launch attacks on other countries, Kuwaiti media reported on Friday. “I have not been informed or even heard of this request,” Al Khorafi answered when asked about Western reports claiming that the US has requested...
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The US has urged Syria and Israel to exercise self-restraint and avoid compounding a tense situation that would make it difficult to resume stalled peace negotiations, a pan-Arab newspaper has reported. A dramatic escalation of a war of words between Damascus and Tel Aviv this week has threatened to shake the fragile situation in...
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Syrian President Bashar Assad said that people currently in charge of Israel paled in comparison with older generation leaders and behaved like children, messing with the country, the New Yorker has reported. “You need a special dictionary for their terms…. They do not have any of the old generation who used to know what...
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Bahrain’s foreign minister and a senior official have defended their country’s right to protect itself and insisted that Iran should not see the missile shield deployment as a measure to attack any country. During a press conference with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington, Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmad Al Khalifa on Wednesday...
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MP Abdul Halim Murad A conservative lawmaker has urged the Bahraini authorities to boost police presence in the desert camps, saying that police forces were needed to ensure security and ethical behaviour. “There is a strong need for a higher number of police patrols in the Sakhir camping areas where Bahraini families tend to...
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Mussa Sadr Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri has called for the boycott of the Arab summit next month in Libya, a country that Shiites blame for the disappearance of top scholar Imam Mussa Sadr 31 years ago. “I personally stand with the boycott, but only President Michel Suleiman can decide on Lebanon’s participation in...
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An Egyptian billionaire has denied reports he was involved in talks to buy the Independent newspapers. MediaGuardian.co.uk on Tuesday said that Samih Sawiris, the chairman and chief executive of Orascom Development Holding and one of three sons of Onsi Sawiris, founder of the Orascom group of companies in the 1950s, has been negotiating with...
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Noureddine Zehrouni Algerians have welcomed a statement by their interior minister to apply the reciprocity principle on special terrorism-related air travel watch lists. The US last month directed airlines to give US-bound travellers from 14 countries, including Algeria, full-body pat-downs. following a botched effort by a Nigerian to blow up an airliner over Detroit...
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Kuwait’s social affairs and labour ministry is moving towards dropping the three-year residence rule and the sponsor’s consent before allowing expatriates to transfer their visas. “The ministry seeks by adopting such a move to ease the situation of expatriates in Kuwait and allow them to switch sponsors without obstacles or impediments,” Al Shahed daily...
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