Bahrain’s lower criminal court on Monday sentenced a Bahraini man to one year in prison after he was found guilty of burning the Qatari flag. According to court documents, the man was among a crowd of people who staged a rally in front of the Qatari embassy in Bahrain on June 14 to press...
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Kuwait’s information minister said that it would soon submit a draft law for electronic publishing to the government. The draft will later be given to the parliament for debate. Sources told local daily Al Jareeda that the ministry had gained insights into the British and American experience in online journalism and blogging. The ministry...
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A Kuwaiti religious leader has rejected the marriage of a Muslim woman with a Jewish man as “null and void” and amounted to adultery. “The Islamic text about such marriages is very clear: A Muslim woman cannot marry a non-Muslim even if he is Christian or Jewish,” Dr Anwar Shuaib, the head of Islamic...
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Qatar’s Zakat Fund has allocated QR 4 million ($1.1 million) for its daily iftar (breaking the fast) programme during Ramadan, a fund official has said. Around 240,000 people are expected to benefit from the programme to be launched on the first day of the holy month, expected to start on August 11. Muslims use...
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A concert by a popular Filipino singer and an idol contest will be held to help raise funds to build a school campus for the Philippine School Doha (PSD) in Qatar. The fund drive initiative by the school’s Parents-Teachers Association (PTA) to raise QR 30 million for the campus in Abu Hamour was taken...
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