Bahrain’s culture and information ministry has invited Al Jazeera television station to agree on a memorandum of understanding that will define their relation and consolidate their cooperation, the ministry said. “The Ministry of Culture and Information has invited Al Jazeera Satellite Channel to send a delegation to the Kingdom of Bahrain to discuss a...
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An Asian man whose name and nationality remained unknown for five months after he lost his memory in a traffic accident has been finally identified thanks to modern technology. The victim, who suffered post-traumatic aphasia –the inability to speak- and amnesia, could not recall his name or country. Bahrain Defence Force (BDF) officials said...
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A Qatari proposal to carry out rehabilitation work in the Gaza Strip in exchange for renewing diplomatic relations with Israel was rejected by Tel Aviv after Egypt made it clear that it would find such a deal “difficult to digest”. According to Israeli daily Haaretz, Israel provided Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak with an outline...
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Bahrain has defended its decision to “freeze the activities” of Al Jazeera television station, saying that it was purely for professional reasons. However, an international media watchdog on Thursday urged Manama to reconsider its stance. “There are agreements between us and Al Jazeera, and the other party has, maybe unintentionally, flouted them,” Shaikha Mai...
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The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will on Sunday reiterate the UAE’s full sovereignty over the three islands held by Iran, the secretary general of the alliance has said. “The GCC foreign ministers at their next meeting in Jeddah will discuss several political issues, mainly the status of the three UAE islands,” Abdul Rahman Al...
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Social activist and Member of Parliament Rula Dashti has been awarded the 2009 North-South Prize by the European Council. Council officials said that Rula was particularly recognized for her long campaign for women’s rights in Kuwait and her achievement in getting eligibility and voting rights for women in 2005. Rula received the prize at...
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Kuwait’s state security has asked mobile operators to block the accounts of people who have left or been deported from the country. The move is to help tackle the high number of hoax bomb threats made trough mobile phones whose owners could not be traced, sources said. Investigations revealed that the “threat numbers” originally...
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Kuwait’s education minister has set up a committee to probe the causes and extent of violence in schools. The findings and recommendations to ensure zero-violence schools will be submitted in a special report to the government within three weeks, Dr Moodhi Al Hmood said. Measures planned to help eradicate the phenomenon in schools include...
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Bahrain Airport Company (BAC) has appointed Edinburgh Airport managing director Gordon Dewar as its new chief executive officer. Dewar will replace Osama Al A’ali, who resigned last week and is expected to start his new assignment in July. Kamal Ahmad, BAC chairman, said that Dewar had brought unprecedented growth at the helm of Edinburgh...
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Sarah Gazdhar, the four-year-old Indian girl who died of suffocation after she was left alone for four hours in a locked school bus, was buried at Abu Hamour in Doha as Qataris and Indians have called for stringent action against careless schools. Sarah’s family, from Jodhpur in India’s Rajasthan state, made on Tuesday the...
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