Bahrain’s social development ministry has annulled the medical society’s elections and called for fresh polls within one month. The new elections should be based on the principles of transparency and credibility, the ministry said following a meeting between ministry officials, last month’s medical society elections committee and the two contenders for the post of...
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Bahraini journalists who have become unemployed after their newspaper shut down in May said that they had agreed on a schedule for public action to get their long-due financial compensations. “We will implement the schedule to press for our demands within days,” Ahmad Al Boosta, the former head of international news at Al Waqt...
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Doctors in Qatar have been told to report suspected cases of child abuse at home after they confirm them by using a specific line of questioning. “Although we do not have data on child abuse in Qatar, we know that it does exist in our society,” Dr Khalid Al Saadi, from the Paediatrics Department...
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Qatar Charity (QC) has opened a field office in the Comoros Islands to oversee its development projects there. The office in the capital Moroni will co-ordinate the efforts of other Qatari Charitable organisations in the development of the island, Mohamad Bin Abdullah Al Rumaihi, assistant foreign minister for follow-up, said at the inauguration ceremony...
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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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A Jewish Bahraini will chair the elections monitoring committee of a human rights organization, the head of the NGO has said. “We have formed our committee to monitor the legislative and municipal elections scheduled for this autumn,” Faisal Fuladh, the head of the Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society (BHRWS) has said. “It will be...
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