Bahrain on Tuesday evening said that it had temporarily shut down the office of Al Jazeera television station for “violating professional conventions.” “The Ministry of Culture and Information has made the decision to freeze the activities of Al Jazeera Satellite Channel office in Bahrain after the channel violated professional conventions and did not comply...
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Eight Bahraini girls on Tuesday started training to become the first native female crew in the Arabian Gulf. The trainees will undergo a ten-week intensive training programme at Gulf Air’s headquarters in Muharraq, Bahrain’s second largest city. Success in the training will ensure they become fully fledged cabin crew and a place in the...
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Iran has appointed the head of the foreign ministry’s Gulf directorate as its new ambassador to Kuwait. Jalal Fairooz will replace incumbent envoy Ali Jennati next month. “Tehran is obviously seeking to consolidate its relations with the countries in the region by appointing experts and specialists in the area in order to win the...
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A Kuwaiti activist detained since last week on charges of instigating to overthrow the regime has ended his hunger strike, his lawyer said. Mohammad Al Jassem went on hunger strike on Wednesday one day after he was summoned by the state security to be quizzed over statements he said and wrote and which were...
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Oil prices should stay between $70 and $80 a barrel to satisfy both producers and consumers, Qatar’s energy minister has said. “The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), producer of almost 40 % of the world’s daily oil supply, will need crude prices to remain above $ 70 a barrel to attract the investment...
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A four-year-old Indian student has died in Qatar after she was left alone in a locked bus for over four hours. The girl has apparently died of heat and asphyxiation in a bus parked by its driver after taking children to their school, but without ensuring that they all got off when they reached...
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Qatar vowed to take legal action against recruitment agencies that fail to settle labour disputes amicably. The decision is part of a drive to ease procedures for the recruitment of expatriates, Abdullah Al Muhannadi, the director of recruitments at the labour ministry said. Other measures include publishing the names of the recruitment agencies that...
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