Israel is planning to complete a 240-kilomter barrier along its Egyptian border in three years. The cabinet said that the $365 million wall was “a response to attempts to infiltrate Israel along its Egyptian border, which has security and demographic consequences.” The barrier is designed to prevent “hostile terrorist activity, drug smuggling, the smuggling...
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Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is heading a 25-member high-level trade delegation to Bahrain on a visit with a focus on commerce and investment ties. Schroeder will deliver a speech at the Bahrain-Germany Business Forum, alongside Bahrain’s trade and commerce minister, and will tour several business and industrial facilities. Political and trade relations between...
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A Kuwaiti MP has called for the establishment of a specialized judicial department that will look into cases brought against journalists. The department, to be made up of judges with cultural, political and legal backgrounds about the media, will help journalists avoid being dragged into the criminal court, MP Saleh Al Mulla said. “The...
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Kuwait should introduce a mandatory eye scan at the airport and seaport to check the identity of all foreigners coming into the country, a lawmaker has said. “We have seen that many people who had been deported or denied entry into Kuwait resort to forged travel documents to come back using,” MP Abdullah Al...
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A Kuwaiti conservative parliamentary bloc is putting pressure on the social affairs and labour minister to take stringent action against those who allowed a women’s football team to take part in an Asian tournament. “We strongly condemn and reject the participation of Kuwaiti women in international sports events,” MPs representing the Reform and Development...
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