Doha, the 2010 Arab culture capital, will host Arab and non-Arab cultural weeks in the next three months, the culture, arts and heritage minister has said. “We are not alone and we live with others. The world is a mixture of cultures and we want to appreciate that,” Hamad bin Abdul Aziz Al Kuwari...
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Shaikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned, the Chairperson of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF) will on Tuesday start a visit to Britain where she will launch high profile projects. Shaikha Mozah, who has for years been actively engaged in education and social reform in Qatar and has played a major...
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Kuwaiti lecturers will be educating Nato personnel on some regional issues under an unprecedented agreement between the alliance and Kuwait. The accord also allows the two partners to organize joint courses. Lt Gen Wolf-Dieter Loeser, the head of the Nato Defense College (NDC), told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that Nato and a Kuwaiti delegation...
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Around half of the Kuwaiti couples who test positive for possible genetic problems that can be transmitted to their children decide to go ahead with the marriage anyway, a senior health official said. “Out of the 15,718 individuals who were tested since pre-marital medical tests were introduced in Kuwait in August, 97.3 percent were...
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A football match between Bahrain and Palestine in Jerusalem has sparked furore in Bahrain with several players refusing to take part and MPs calling for its cancellation. On Sunday, Al Asala, the Salafi formation with eight lawmakers in the 40-seat lower chamber, said that it “totally rejected” the game as “a form of normalization...
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The US Navy has suspended search and rescue efforts to locate the fourth crew member from the E-2C that crashed on March 31 and declared the missing pilot deceased. According to the Navy, the E-2C Hawkeye from VAW 121, the Bluetails, stationed aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower was returning from conducting operations in support...
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