As Bahrainis go to polling stations tomorrow to elect 14 lawmakers, one woman has taken a stand that has captured the nation’s imagination. Sawsan Al Taqawi this month made history when she became the first Shiite woman lawmaker to make it to the lower chamber of the bicameral parliament. The upper chamber — whose...
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King Hamad Bin Eisa Al Khalifa on Thursday reiterated in front of the international community Bahrain’s call for a solution to the United Arab Emirates occupied islands. “Based on our commitment to the security of the Arabian Gulf region, we emphasize the need to resolve the issue of the three occupied United Arab Emirates’...
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Libya’s former prime minister Al Baghdadi Al Mahmoodi was on Thursday sentenced to six months in prison for entering neighbouring Tunisia illegally, Attounisia news portal reported. Two other people, his nephew and a senior Libyan official from the office of the prime minister, were also sentenced to six months each for not possessing the...
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An international commission probing the events that hit Bahrain in February and March said that it has completed its investigation of demolished mosques and religious buildings. “International engineering expert Ismail Hazem has now completed his investigation as part of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) team examining the demolition of places of worship...
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Bahrain’s foreign minister has hailed the speech delivered by President Barack Obama at the United Nations general assembly. “The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmad Al Khalifa, welcomed the United States’ President Barack Obama speech before the United Nations General Assembly on September 21,” the ministry said in a statement.
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Religion does not change perception on information irrespective of its source, a study by Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar (SFS-Qatar) has shown. The results were shared by visiting assistant professor Alexis Antoniades at the first in a series of faculty seminars by SFS-Qatar’s International Economics (IECO) major faculty for the new...
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Kuwait’s first public school for students with learning disabilities opened as part of the education ministry’s integration project. An orientation was held on the sideline of the inauguration of Al Sadeem Boys’ Elementary School Elementary School for Boys and the project’s team leader Dr Eissa Jassem highlighted in a speech the different categories of...
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Qatar is setting up a committee to address the aftermath of a hike in the salaries of Qatari government employees amid increasingly louder calls to curb arbitrary increases in the prices of goods and services. The committee will be responsible for “monitoring the prices of goods and services and implementing appropriate measures to maintain...
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A Gulf Air plane travelling from Bahrain to Afghanistan on Wednesday was refused permission to land in Kabul by the Civil Aviation Authority, the airline said. Flight GF742 carrying 117 passengers has returned to Bahrain and the company apologized “for the disruption caused to its passengers and which was beyond its control.”
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Bahrain on Wednesday said that it would take legal action against 18 drivers for trying to hinder traffic in Manama. The cars of the drivers have been seized, the General Directorate of Traffic said on its Twitter account. The action comes two days after the department warned that it would revoke the driving licences...
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