US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has expressed confidence that President Barack Obama will be re-elected. “He’s our President. He represents all of the United States, and he will be reelected President,” Clinton told a town hall meeting in Tunis. “I think that that will be a very clear signal to the entire world...
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The search for an individual or group to become the next Laureate of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Prize for Education has been launched in Qatar, organizers said. The $500,000 prize, the first to recognise contributors to education at a level similar to other major prizes for science, literature, peace or economics...
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A man arrested at a mall for indecent behaviour towards a married woman told the police that they would have acted similarly if they had seen how beautiful she was. Local daily Arab Times reported on Wednesday that the police were called in after an angry husband had an intense argument with a man who...
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Kuwait’s public sector operated with half of its staff after around 160,000 employees failed to show up for work on Tuesday following a four-day holiday. Excuses for the high-level absenteeism included trips abroad and sick leaves, local Arabic daily Al Jarida reported.
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Tunisia is ready to grant asylum to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad as part of a negotiated settlement to the Syrian crisis, President Moncef Marzouki said in an interview with a local daily. La Presse, one of two dailies to publish in French in Tunisia, said that it would print the interview on Wednesday.
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Ordinary men and women competing in Olympic Games are a great source of inspiration and character building, the head of Bahrain’s Olympic committee has said. “Throughout the history of the Olympic Games, ordinary men and women have demonstrated extraordinary character through good sportsmanship,” Shaikh Nasser Bin Hamad Al Khalifa said. “They inspire us to...
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Bahrain has completed the formation of a special investigatory unit within the public prosecution department dedicated to determining accountability for last year’s events, the country’s attorney-general said on Tuesday. An international fact-finding commission, Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) in November recommended the establishment of a national, independent and impartial mechanism to determine the...
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Kuwait’s Constitutional Court will start on March 13 looking into challenges to the results of the parliamentary elections. Candidates and voters in the First, Second, Third and Fourth constituencies had challenged the results of the elections held on February 2 to elect 50 members to the parliament. Kuwait has five electoral constituencies.
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The Palestinian ambassador to Bahrain has rejected a controversial fatwa (religious edict) that prohibits non-Palestinians from visiting Palestine. “Arabs and Muslims should not equate prisoners with jailers,” Taha Mohammad Abdul Qadir said, referring to Palestinians and Israelis. “Visiting Palestine does not mean in any way normalising ties with the occupiers,” he said.
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Bahrain’s oldest oil field has improved in production thanks to the establishment of Tatweer Petroleum: a joint venture between Bahrain, the American Occidental Company and the Emirati Mubadala Company, Abdul Husain Mirza, the energy minister has said. “In addition, the Abu Saafa field, a joint field between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, has reached a...
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