Archive for August, 2010

Bahrain’s interior ministry set up a hotline to encourage people to assist in tracking down suspects or preventing violence as it named ten people allegedly involved in acts of sabotage and assault . The ministry said in a statement that the two of the suspects were involved in the assault on Muhannad Abu Zeitoun, the managing...
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Kuwait’s health ministry has developed “an integrated plan” to counter any possible radioactive pollution accidents. The announcement was made days after Iran launched the Bushehr nuclear reactor across the Arabian Gulf from Kuwait. The plan, worked out in cooperation with the Interior Ministry’s Directorate General of Civil Defense, follows the International Atomic Energy Agency’s...
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More than half of Kuwaiti drivers use their cell phones to text messages while behind the wheel, a study indicates. The study, carried out by Dr Zakiya Al Hashmi, professor of sociology at Kuwait University, showed that 53% of the respondents admitted sending or receiving text messages while on the road. It also indicated...
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Bahrain Journalists Association (BJA) is piling up pressure on Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRS) to issue a formal apology for the verbal abuse of journalists at a press conference organized by the society. The rights watchdog had called for the conference to highlight the case of the Bahrainis detained by the security authorities for...
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A Syrian man has died at the age of 125, leaving 187 sons, grand-sons, great-grand-sons and great great grand-sons, the Syrian News Agency (SANA) reported on Monday. According to the personal identity card, Othman Ibrahim Ahmad was born in 1885 and had a good memory up to his death, Mohammad, one of his sons...
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Two Bahrainis suspected of assaulting the editor of Al Watan newspaper last week have been arrested, a public security officer has said. The two men aged 27 and 21 have confessed they had attacked Ahmed Abu Zeitoun and will be referred to the public prosecutor, Major General Tariq bin Dayna, the Public Security chief,...
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A prominent UAE businessman who fled to Kuwait after disappearing while performing Umrah in Saudi Arabia has been arrested, a local daily said. According to Kuwait Times, the man, an owner of a major bank in the UAE, reportedly disappeared shortly after reaching Makkah. He was apparently tracked to Kuwait by Emirati police who...
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Kuwait’s government has reinforced its ascendance over the parliament, beating them 3-2 in their annual football match. The government has now won five of the eight matches between the two teams in a tradition that sees ministers and lawmakers setting aside an evening to compete in sport, not politics, during Ramadan. In a pre-match...
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Qatar’s anti-drug authorities have foiled an attempt to smuggle 2.2 million Captagon pills, reportedly among the most popular drugs among young people in the Middle East. Four members of the international network involved in drug trafficking were arrested in the successful operation completed with cooperation from another Arab country, local media said, quoting interior...
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Bahrain on Sunday evening denied as “untrue and lacking credibility” reports that it had stopped financing the treatment of Hassan Mshaima, the head of Haq Movement, from cancer. The activist this summer said that he was suffering from cancer and told supporters that he would be traveling to Turkey and then to Britain for...
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