Kuwait’s journalists association is demanding an apology from the outgoing Iranian ambassador for his allegedly claiming that some local columnists were pro-Zionists. “We do not accept Zionist labels against Kuwaiti journalists, no matter who the person who makes them is,” Faisal Al Qannai, the association secretary general, said. “We reject the reference by Ali...
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Bahrain’s Court of Appeals on Sunday reduced the sentence of a Bangladeshi convicted of killing a Bahraini national with a grinder from life in prison to three years. The life-term ruling issued in September 2009 was slashed after the defendant’s lawyer, Fatima Al Hawwaj, argued that her client, Mohammad Babul, should be tried for...
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Qatar’s minister of culture, arts and heritage was among hundreds of citizens and residents who staged a rally to protest against Israel for its fatal raid on Gaza-bound ships carrying humanitarian aid. Hamad Bin Abdul Aziz Al Kuwari, in an emotional speech, praised the activists on the ships, saying that the largest international organisations...
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A Qatari court on Monday will decide the fate of 97 Bahrain-based fishermen Doha has been detaining for allegedly entering the country’s waters illegally. According to Bahraini human rights activists, 31 Bahrainis and 66 Asians will be tried by a court in Rayyan, in the western part of Doha, amid hopes that the Qatari...
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A disgruntled Saudi man risked his life by walking barefooted on a live electricity wire without knowing when power could be restored to draw attention to repeated energy cuts affecting his village. Witnesses said that Mohammad Al Qahtani climbed up a pole and then walked without shoes for around 100 metres on the wire...
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Mehdi Agha Jafari, the chargé d’affaires at the Iranian Embassy in Abu Dhabi, is likely to become Iran’s next ambassador in Bahrain, an Iranian news portal has reported. “The term of the current Iranian ambassador to Bahrain, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, has come to an end and he will be replaced by Mehdi Agha Jafari...
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The Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) should be expanded to include larger countries such as Iran and Iraq, South Korea’s former minister of foreign affairs and trade has said. Such a move would mean wider representation of the Gulf region and a stronger say in the international arena, while smaller countries, such as Qatar, would...
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