Bahrain’s public prosecution has called for an end to the legal proceedings in the case of sportsmen tried on charges of inciting for the hatred of the regime. “The public prosecution decided to call for the end of the proceedings as the charges are based on abusing the country’s leaders,” Abdul Rahman Al Sayyed,...
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Nato’s chief on Wednesday advised Russia not to waste its money on countering “an artificial enemy that does not exist”. The remark by Anders Fogh Rasmussen ahead of a two-day meeting of the alliance foreign ministers in Brussels sought to assuage Russian concerns about Nato’s ballistic missile defense system to be deployed in Europe.
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Bahrain’s interior ministry on Wednesday evening revised a report it issued earlier that it found a package containing explosives at the airport. “The laboratory test proved that there were no explosives in the package, but the material could be used to make explosive devices,” the ministry said on its Twitter account.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organistion (Nato) officials have denied claims that the alliance was planning to charge Tripoli for the operations it conducted in Libya. “Allegations that we will ask the Libyan government to foot the bill for the operations are totally baseless and lack credibility,” officials said.
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A religious figure who had been stripped of his Kuwaiti nationality after he insulted iconic Islamic figures was on Wednesday sentenced to 15 years in prison. A criminal court in Kuwait City found Yasser Al Habeeb guilty of insulting Aisha, the wife of Prophet Mohammad and daughter of the first Caliph Abu Baker...
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The two Kuwaitis who have been held by Iran for three weeks will be released next week, a relative has said. “I have been informed by an Iranian embassy staff in Kuwait that they would be handed over to the Kuwaiti authorities on Tuesday,” Abdul Aziz Al Yahya, the brother of one of the...
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King Hamad Bin Eisa Al Khalifa has granted the Bahraini nationality to 335 people born to Bahraini mothers and foreign fathers. The decision was hailed by the Supreme Council for Women (SCW), a staunch campaigner of women empowerment.
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A conservative lawmaker in Bahrain has called for setting up a separate college for girls within the University of Bahrain. MP Ali Zayed, representing Al Asala Society, the expression of Salafism in the country, attributed the move to demands from a large segment of the society.
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Qatar is reinstating a rule that requires the sponsor’s approval before a foreigner applies to take driving lessons, a local daily reported. Driving school owners have been told that the application papers should now include the sponsor’s approval, Al Raya, an Arabic newspaper, reported.
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The latest developments in the Arab countries and ways to enhance relations with Arab capitals will figure high on the agenda of the foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) and their partner countries at their meeting in Brussels.
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