The legendary Cirque du Soleil, a dramatic mix of circus arts and street entertainment, will be performing for the first time in Qatar on July 4-7. Evoking imagination and senses, the colourful show by 50 artists from 20 countries will tune acrobatics and athleticism into artistic expression while solo spotlights and epic ensembles pump...
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The extraordinary summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to sign the transition to the Gulf union will be held within months, ahead of their annual meeting in December in Manama, a senior Bahraini official has said.
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Bahrain said that it was looking for 20 men reportedly involved in making and detonating bombs. The suspects “have made and detonated homemade bombs and carried out criminal acts of sabotage that resulted in casualties among civilians and policemen and terrorised citizens and expatriates who were either at home or on the road, the...
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Police in Kuwait are looking for a Gulf driver for speeding above 200km per hour and challenging traffic police officers to catch him after they waved his car down. According to local Arabic daily Al Anba, the driver was asked by the police to stop after traffic radar indicated that he was way above the...
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Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) has awarded $140.5 million to research proposals that come under the National Priorities Research Programme (NPRP), designed to foster a culture of research in the country. The amount, now in its fifth cycle, marks a 15 per cent increase over the previous cycle.
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Bahrain has lodged a protest over statements by the Iranian parliament speaker and a lawmaker to integrate Bahrain into Iran. “We strongly condemn the statements by Speaker Ali Larijani and lawmaker Hossein Ali Shahriari over Bahrain and we consider them blatant interference in Bahrain’s domestic affairs and a gross violation of its independence and...
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The extraordinary summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to sign the transition to the Gulf union will be held within months, ahead of their annual meeting in December in Manama, a senior Bahraini official has said. “The Gulf union has been approved and it will be a reality very soon,” Nabeel Al...
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