The High Criminal Court on Monday sentenced seven Bahrainis to life in prison and acquitted three in the case of the murder a Pakistani national last year. The 10 defendants were initially charged with causing the death of Shaikh Mohammad Riaz in March 2009 after they planned an attack on a police patrol at...
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A Kuwaiti court said that it would on Monday look into the appeal of Khalid Al Fadhala, the Secretary General of the National Democratic Alliance, against a prison sentence announced last week. Husain Al Gahreeb, his lawyer, lodged the appeal on Monday morning, saying that that his client should not be made to spend...
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Funoon Television, the first Arabic-language comedy channel, has denied media reports that high running costs were forcing it to shut down. The Kuwait-based channel founded in 2006 by Kuwaiti actor Abdulhussain Abdulredha, its owner and director was reacting to a report posted by a news website quoting information ministry sources as saying that the...
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Children should be educated on the wise and sustainable use of water to ensure that they do not inadvertently waste the precious resource, an expert from Unesco has suggested. “Children constitute a critical mass for wasting, mismanaging and misusing water,” Dr Abdullah Bubtana said. The former director of Unesco Doha office and former chief...
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Qatar has moved towards controlling commodity prices during Ramadan, the month with the highest consumption levels, by freezing the prices of at least 160 basic food and non-food items. The prices will be frozen from July 25 until the end of the holy month on September 11. Ramadan is expected to start on August...
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