UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay will on Saturday begin a ten-day tour of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, the UN media office in Bahrain has said. “This is an unprecedented effort by the UN human rights office to engage more actively and effectively with the governments and civil society...
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Qatar is set to take “fair and necessary” measures against a diplomat who sparked a security scare by smoking in the toilet of an American passenger jet and jokingly made a reference to igniting his shoes. “He effectively made a mistake as a human being. There will be fair and necessary measures in accordance...
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Kuwait’s health ministry has warned all private health centres and clinics to limit the number of embryos that may be implanted by fertility clinics. According to the ministry, only two embryos can be transferred to women below 35 in an in vitro infertilsation (IVF). Three embryos can be transferred to women who are more...
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Ten people have died from overdose in Kuwait in the first three months of this year, the interior ministry has said. “Five of those who died were aged between 31 and 40,” the ministry said in a statement. “The figure reflects how the lives of young people are lost despite steady efforts to combat...
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Speeding and illegal parking topped the list of traffic violations by drivers in Qatar, officers have said amid reports of a 30 per cent increase in contraventions. However, the hike in the increase is attributed mainly to greater vigilance by the police and a stricter application of the law. The installation of radars on...
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Qatar has urged the international community to avoid equating Islam with terrorism, explaining that “Islam is a tolerant religion that advocates tolerance towards other religions.” In a speech to the 14th session of the comprehensive convention against international terrorism, Ibrahim Musa Al Hitmi, member of the National Committee for Combating Terrorism, said that Qatar...
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Qatar’s Amir Shaikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani received His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III, Patriarch of the Roman Orthodox Church. No details were given about the meeting, but , Qatar News Agency (QNA) said that the patriarch “called on HH the Amir to greet him on the occasion of his visit to Qatar.” Qatar’s...
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Celebrated filmmaker Mira Nair, founder of the Maisha Filmmakers Laboratory, is inviting 12 Qatari aspiring filmmakers to take part in the sixth Maisha’s Annual Filmmakers’ Lab training programme. Nair said that Maisha was “a boot camp for cinema” and the Qataris selected by a special committee for the training would have an intensive 25-day...
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