A suitcase containing four Glock 9mm handguns belonging to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s security detail was stolen from his chartered El Al aircraft after it landed at JFK airport, New York, Deka files reports on Wednesday. The bag was supposed to be on a flight to Washington, where Netanyahu met President Barack Obama...
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Doctors in a Saudi city had to perform a surgery on a prison inmate who had problems taking a mobile phone out of his body. “An inmate has been implicated in getting a mobile phone inside his body, but was unable to take it out,” a spokesman for a prison in Madinah said. “Doctors...
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Police in Kuwait City are looking for the parents of a newborn boy who was found abandoned near Marina fields. The baby was taken to Mubarak Hospital while the police have launched an investigation, Al Aan news portal reported on Wednesday. Under Kuwait’s regulations, abandoned babies who are not adopted go to an orphanage...
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Bahrain is reportedly moving towards abolishing its ministry of culture and information and splitting its directorates. According to a report in Al Ayam daily, Bahrain will soon have a ministry of culture and an information authority, Bahrain Media Authority, that will include Bahrain TV, the foreign media and the publication directorate. Tourism, currently under...
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Kuwait has reiterated its pledge of zero tolerance towards attempts to use media to erode its unity, a government minister has said. “All parties are responsible for protecting and consolidating national unity, and the government is serious in its measures to counter any attempt to harm this unity,” Shaikh Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah,...
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The US embassy in Kuwait will next Tuesday increase its fees for delivering consular services. The new fees “will help cover emergency services, including assistance to US citizens who have been victims of crime, assistance provided after the death of a US citizen, and visits to US citizens in overseas prisons,” the embassy said....
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Qatar could be home to a regional office of the World Bank, the head of a consulting company has said. Talal Abu Ghazaleh, chairman of the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development, said that a proposal in this regard would be discussed with Qatar’s business and commerce ministry. “I would like to...
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Qatar, a country that is bidding to host the FIFA World Cup in 2022, now hopes to welcome on its soil the eighth World Chambers Congress (WCC), an international congregation of about 12,000 chambers of commerce across the world. Held every two years in various regions of the world, the WCC is the only...
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