Gulf Air will increase flights to Iraq and Iran and will start flying to Alexandria and Aleppo from June 2010, the airline said on Tuesday. Services to the Egyptian sea city of Alexandria will start on June 2 with four flights per week, while flights to Aleppo in Syria will begin on 17 June...
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Thousands of music lovers in Bahrain have expressed disappointment after the sell-out concert of Saudi star Mohammad Abdoo scheduled for Tuesday evening in Manama was cancelled. In a brief statement, the organizers of the Spring of Culture Festival said that the open-air concert in a historic fort, considered by most Bahrainis and Gulf nationals...
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A 23-year-old Kuwait woman was on Tuesday sentenced to death for causing a fire that killed 57 women and children attending a wedding party in a tent in Al Jahra, 45 kilometres west of Kuwait City. Judges Adel Al Sagr, Ahmad Abu Al Amayem and Khalid Abdul Hadi said that Nasra Yusuf Mohammad Al...
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More than 135 children suffered abuses in Bahrain in 2009, the social development minister has said. “According to the records, 27 children did not receive any care, eight were abused psychologically, 32 abused physically and 70 abused sexually,” Dr Fatima Al Beloushi said. The minister said that the promulgation of a law is an...
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Qatar Airways will start daily flights to Brazil and Argentina on June 24, the airline has said. The flights will mark the airline’s first operations to South America. The two brand new Boeing 777-200 Long Range aircraft acquired in the last three months will be deployed on the two South American routes, to the...
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Kuwaiti media have blasted the participation of three Kuwaiti athletes alongside Israelis in an international track meet. “The participation of the Kuwaiti runners is a blatant violation of the rules that ban Kuwaitis from competing or taking part in individual events where Israelis are also present,” Al Shahed paper said. “Kuwait has invariably pulled...
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Kuwait’s government has condemned statements that it had struck deals with some lawmakers to support the information minister in a no-confidence vote as “baseless allegations.” Shaikh Ahmad Al Abdullah last week survived the vote at the parliament after he was accused by ten MPs of failing to address vigourously televisions stations that threatened national...
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