Bahrain’s foreign minister has denied rumours that King Hamad Bin Eisa Al Khalifa had met opposition figures during his official visit to Britain. “HM the King did not meet them,” Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmad Al Khalifa said. “They are in London. HM the King of course never shut his door on anyone, but they...
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Hamadi Jabali, secretary-general of Al Nahda, the moderate Islamist party that won the national elections in Tunisia, was on Wednesday tasked with forming the new government. “The President Munsif Al Marzouqi has charged Hamadi Jabali, the candidate of the party that won the highest number of seats in the national constituent assembly, with forming...
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Bahrain’s justice and Islamic affairs and endowment ministry has launched an online service to assess people’s appreciation of the various Haj (pilgrimage) operators. “The service allows those who performed Haj to express their assessment of their operators,” Abdul Nasser Abdullah, the head of umrah and haj at the ministry, said on Wednesday. “Those who...
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Syria’s Grand Mufti Ahmad Hassoun said that he had information about a plot to divide Egypt. “There are concerns about schemes for Egypt,” the mufti said. “I have information about a plan similar to the Israeli plot that succeeded in dividing Sudan into two countries,” he told Al Rai daily in Wednesday.
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Qatar has named its largest mosque after Imam Mohammad Ibn Abdul Wahab, the influential Muslim scholar who lived in the 18th century in today’s Saudi Arabia. “The mosque naming directive by the Emir Shaikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani is in honour of the reformer’s position and a reflection of Qatar’s keenness on the revival...
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Qatar has set up a diplomacy institute within its foreign ministry as part of an overall restructuring of the ministry that included appointing three undersecretaries to assist the minister. The institute is tasked with training ministry employees to take up positions in the diplomatic and consular corps and in the international cooperation field.
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Kuwait’s prime minister has formed a compact government in which no new minister was appointed. The 10-minister cabinet will last until the announcement of the results of the parliamentarian elections expected to be held in early February.
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Tunisia’s opposition veteran Munsif Al Marzouqi was sworn in on Tuesday as the country’s first elected president since the north African nation’s revolution sparked the Arab Spring. “I will be the guarantor of the national interests, the state of laws and institutions,” Al Marzouki said with his hand on the Quran as he took his oath...
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A third Kuwait former lawmaker has been summoned by the public prosecution for questioning after huge amounts of money were allegedly deposited in their bank accounts. Ex-MP Salah Ashoor was summoned one day after two other former lawmakers Hussain Al Hariti and Mokhlid Al Azimi were questioned on Monday night before they were released...
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Kuwait has started the long process of quizzing 15 former lawmakers over the source of millions of dinars deposited in their bank accounts. Hussain Al Hariti and Mokhlid Al Azimi were the first ex-MPs to be questioned on Monday night by the public prosecutor before they were released on bail of 5,000 dinars each...
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