A move to grill Kuwait’s prime minister over government inaction on pollution in a residential area was on Tuesday aborted after the lawmaker who filed the questioning request failed to show up. Parliament Speaker Jassem Al Khorafi said that he dropped the item from the session agenda. “The prime minister was present at the...
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Bahrain is keen on moving ahead with the construction of a long-planned causeway linking Bahrain and Qatar, a Bahraini newspaper has reported. “The causeway is highly significant and the peoples of Bahrain and Qatar have pinned great hopes on it,” Bahraini sources told Al Ayam daily. “The terrestrial link will bring in great economic...
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Hamad Victor Agha will in two weeks make history by becoming the first Qatari national to be admitted to the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point. He had to outclass candidates from 69 students to be among only 12 non-American students who will study at the prestigious academy. USMA usually allocates 15...
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