Islamic Action Society (Amal) has linked its participation in the forthcoming legislative elections with the chances of winning a seat in parliament, reports have said. The society that appeals mainly to Shiite followers of Ayatullah Hadi Al Mudarrisi and who are known as “the Shirazi faction”, boycotted the elections in 2002 and 2006, ostensibly...
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Egyptian president Hosni Muabrak has given assurances to Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa that he would be a candidate for a third five-year term, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported. “Cairo has already started coordinating with Riyadh, the Saudi capital, to ensure Arab support for the nomination, particularly that several Arabs countries, mainly in the...
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The Indian embassy has told the Indian schools in Qatar that the safety, security and well-being of their students are their responsibility alone. Addressing a monthly community meeting, Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa, India’s ambassador in Qatar, said that the community school operators have often been told that they should not compromise on the safety and...
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Qatar Charity has completed the construction of Kosovo’s second largest mosque at a cost of QR 1.4 million ($385,000). “The Mosque consists of three floors and includes special classes for teaching the Holy Quran and Arabic language,” Mahmood Abbas, Qatar Charity’s representative in Kosovo said. “The mosque, built on an area of 800 square...
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Kuwait’s Amir has donated three million euros to the Paris-based Arab World Institute, Kuwait’s Ambassador in France has said. “The president of the institute has informed us of the generous donation of three million euro by HH Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah,” Ali Al Saeed told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) following...
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A Saudi scholar has waded into controversy after he said that women could give their milk to men to establish a degree of maternal relations and get around a strict religious ban on mixing between unrelated men and women. According to Shaikh Abdul Mohsen Al Abaican, a consultant at Saudi Arabia’s royal court, a...
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Bahrain is adamant about the selection of Mohammad Al Mutawa, its nominee as the next secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), for the position, a Kuwaiti newspaper said. According to Gulf sources cited by Al Siyassah, Bahrain said that it would not change its nominee, especially that Al Mutawa has been endorsed...
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The Doha Debates, a Qatar-based public forum that tackles the region’s most controversial and topical issues, is set to have millions of viewers in Asia after a deal was signed with Pakistan’s Geo News channel. The debates will be initially telecast with Urdu subtitles and will be shown eight times a year. Doha Debates...
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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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