Good intentions by all segments of the Bahraini society are required to achieve a national consensus, the crown prince has said. “The drive towards reaching a national solution by all sections is an objective that cannot be achieved unless there are genuinely positive intentions,” Crown Prince Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa said. “It is...
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Al Asala, the major Salafi formation in Bahrain, has elected Abdul Halim Murad, an outspoken lawmaker, as its new chairman. He succeeds former MP Ganim Al Buainain who joined the government in April after he was named state minister for foreign affairs. In the other two nominations, Sameera Rajab, a former member of the...
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Kuwait’s traffic authorities impounded 587 vehicles in operations launched by the police over the two-day weekend. According to the statistics by the traffic directorate, the police booked 7,696 drivers for violating the traffic code in the country’s six governorates, a local Arabic daily reported.
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Kuwait’s traffic authorities impounded 587 vehicles in operations launched by the police over the two-day weekend. According to the statistics by the traffic directorate, the police booked 7,696 drivers for violating the traffic code in the country’s six governorates, a local Arabic daily reported.
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Kuwait has pledged a zero-tolerance policy towards organising campaigns or using mosques to promote candidates in Egypt’s presidential elections. As the May 24 date for the first round of the historic elections inexorably approaches, several Egyptians living in Kuwait have used mosques to encourage their fellow citizens to vote for Mohammad Morsi, the Muslim...
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The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are expected to adopt tomorrow a proposal to establish a high commission to coordinate the decisions by the six member states, a Saudi daily reported. Citing “well-informed” sources, Al Sharq said that the commission would oversee the implementation of the GCC decisions or proposals and would follow up...
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Tunisia’s new constitution will be ready by October 23 , the Speaker of the Constituent Assembly has said. Mustapha Ben Jaafar’s announcement confirms the deadline initially put forward last year following the election of the assembly to draft the constitution.
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Iraq’s oldest person has died at the age of 125, local media reported. Khliwi Kholkhal was thought to be born in 1887 and has lived through all the political changes that shaped the region in modern times, including the birth of Iraq.
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Kuwait’s parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly voted in favour of suspending a lawmaker for two weeks after he reportedly spat on a fellow MP. MPs also accused Mohammad Al Juwaihal of being drunk when he attended the session.
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The collapse of the Cold War era international systems provides an opportunity to form a new system that focuses on economic cooperation and to revive the legacy of coexistence among peoples of the Indian Ocean, a Bahraini diplomat and scholar said. “The historical legacy of the Indian Ocean has since the dawn of history...
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