Four Asians were found dead in a workshop in Souq Waqif, a large popular market in central Bahrain. The police said that initial investigation has revealed that the four labourers died from heat suffocation in the popular market workshop in Hamad Town, 17 kilometres south of the capital, Manama.
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Kuwait’s administrative court has thrown out a lawsuit to bar a former lawmaker from seeking a new term in parliament. Voters in the Second Constituency had filed a case to have a ban on ex-MP Khalaf Dumaifir from running in the parliamentary elections on February 2.
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Kuwait’s Cassation Court has upheld an Appeals Court ruling to acquit six Kuwaitis charged with plotting armed attacks on the US Army’s Arifjan military camp. The Kuwaitis, who include the son of a former lawmaker and a doctor, had been acquitted by a court of first instance in May 2010 and by the Court...
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A girls’ elementary school in the west of Bahrain was targeted in the 25th arson attack on a learning institution in four months, the education ministry said. “The fire was started near the Shahrakan elementary girls’ school electricity room,” the ministry said. “However, the school guards were able to put it out before it...
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A medical college in Qatar said that its researchers have made a possible breakthrough in the way ovarian cancer is treated. Using the latest techniques and taking a new approach involving studying a smaller sample and deeper analysis of the genetic abnormalities of the metastasized lesions, the researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College...
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Shaikh Saud Al Nasser, the Kuwaiti former ambassador to Washington who played a major role in getting the US to lead a multinational coalition to liberate his country from the Iraqi occupation in January 1991, has died. A brief statement issued by the Emiri court late on Saturday evening said that Shaikh Saud, 68,...
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A Kuwait court has reinstated five parliamentary candidates after it cancelled the interior ministry’s decision barring them from running in the elections. The Administrative Court said that the decision against Abdul Hamid Dashti, Mohammad Al Hafiti, Adel Al Shaheen, Mohammad Al Beloushi and Eisa Al Ajmi was based on an excessive interpretation of the...
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Around two-thirds of Qatar’s fatal accidents last year were caused by young people, traffic data indicated. “Even though the number of deadly accidents went down by 10.6 per cent, the fact that 65.2 per cent of them were caused by young drivers is very worrisome,” officials have said, quoted by Arabic daily Al Raya.
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Parents in Qatar are spending an average of 8,000 Qatari riyals ($2,200) on private tuition per child ahead of the end of semester exams. “A parent pays around 14,000 riyals ($3,850) to prepare an international school child for the exams and 3,000 riyals ($824) for a student who attends an Arab private school,” local...
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Bahrain’s National Security Agency (NSA) is to implement an extensive training programme to bring its aptitudes with United Nations practices. The training will start on January 22 and will be carried out over revolving periods of six months and provided to all staff, an official source said.
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