Archive for July 1st, 2010

Two more Bahraini and 13 Asian Bahrain-based fishermen returned to Manama on Thursday afternoon following their release by the Qatari authorities. Only one Bahraini, Adel Al Taweel, now remains in Qatari custody and will know his fate next Thursday when he appears before a Qatari court for allegedly entering Qatari waters illegally and not...
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The secret meeting between Turkey’s foreign minister and an Israeli minister official in Switzerland was apparently held due to pressure from the Obama administration, sources in Israel said on Thursday. The White House prompted and coordinated the meeting between Israeli Industry, Trade, and Labor Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, the...
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Kuwait has launched an all-women moral police whose tasks include a fight on genderqueers, transsexuals and transvestites, a Kuwaiti daily said. “The special police force will patrol shopping centres and marina clubs throughout Kuwait and will chase women imitating men and men imitating women (transvestites),” Alam Al Yawm reported. The policewomen, in their fight...
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Nine Bahrain-based fishermen who were released by Qatar last Thursday are now home in Bahrain amid a deluge of good wishes. The seven Bahraini and two Asian men said that they could not leave Qatar because of the bad weather and that they were grateful to be home after an ordeal that last several...
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A private university in Bahrain has rejected criticism that it disregarded Arabic, the country’s official language, after it conducted its first batch graduation ceremony in English. “The graduates this year are from 13 nationalities and most of them do not understand Arabic,” Riyadh Dhaif, Deputy Registrar at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland-Medical...
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