Kuwait’s foreign minister has rejected foreign intervention in his country’s domestic affairs, saying that Kuwait was a sovereign country. Shaikh Mohammad Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah, reacting to a call to comment on the US concerns about the imprisonment of Kuwaiti lawyer and blogger Mohammad Al Jassem, said that the case was under the...
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The development of modern labour policies that ensure the rights of foreign workers is high on the agenda of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Kuwait’s social affairs and labour minister has said. “The development of labour policies and methods is a top priority of the GCC members for shoring up sustainable development orientations,” Mohammad...
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A Kuwaiti researcher has put forth a national plan to counter increasing violence at schools. Masooma Ahmad Ibrahim, a professor of educational psychology, said that the project she had submitted a project Public Authority for Applied Education and Training should help end violence at educational institutions through the provision of psychological, emotional, and logistic...
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Bahrain’s two leading Sunni Islamist societies have pledged to unite their forces again to secure seats in the lower chamber of the bicameral parliament. The alliance decision, announced by the chairmen of Al Asala, the flagship of the Salafis in Bahrain, and the Islamic Menbar, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, puts an end...
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Qatar is freeing all Bahrain-based fishermen it had held for allegedly straying into its waters. The breakthrough has come following a telephone conversation on Monday evening between Bahrain’s Crown prince Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa and Qatar’s Crown Prince Shaikh Tameem Bin Hamad Al Thani. The official news agencies of both countries said that...
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Doha’s Women’s Hospital has become the first public hospital in the region to offer a private cord blood banking facility in partnership with the Virgin Health Bank Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP), Qatari media reported. Families who have their babies delivered at the Women’s Hospital can now have a contract with Virgin...
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